In these days when $100 laptops are making news, it has become really common to find people lugging a laptop to and from their workplace. A laptop is fast metamorphosing from a rich man's toy to a common man's portable work horse. And as the case may be, when you buy/own a laptop the number one thing on your mind should be how to take good care of it so as to prolong its life and thus squeeze out every penny worth of work from it.And when things do go wrong as is bound to happen with all hardware, there are simple solutions which you can try out first before calling a hardware technician. For example, there are ready solutions which you can try out for situations such as laptop overheating, upgrading a laptop, detecting hard drive failure, network troubleshooting, system crash, fixing dead pixels in laptops and so on. Mike Spitalieri has written an interesting article titled "11 ways to fix your laptop" explaining just that and gives tips on overcoming these situations which many laptop owners will face at one time or the other.
While some tips such as defragmenting your hard drive does not apply if you are running Linux on your laptop, most hardware troubleshooting tips he details are applicable to even Linux users.
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