Never ever try to remove a laptop key
Last weekend, my laptop 'alt' laptop key was acting funny, and I thought something got stuck under it.
So being the fiscally responsible person I am, decided to go to Youtube to find my laptop model on how to remove keys. I saw a video that had a laptop looking exactly like mine, so I decided to copy what the guy in the video did.
10 seconds later, big mistake.
I ended up breaking my space bar key, and it turns out the workings underneath my laptop keys were completely different from the ones on the video. Space bar is a pretty crucial key, so I was scrambling to get it fixed. Geek Squad at Best Buy said they couldn't help me, but could replace entire keyboard and everything for $70. The local computer place said they would give me a used keyboard to replace and all that would cost $120. !@#$%^&*. I googled them and their reviews said they sucked, and they were right.
I'm a broke college student so $%&@ that, I went online and there seemed to be good reviews from a place called laptopkey.com. $7 to replace the single key, I took the risk. Meanwhile, the last 4 days in computer agony having to ctrl + v every individual space I ever took. Thank god I finished my semester last week.
Well anyway, the key came in just now. Popped it in, used a knife to nudge it up a bit after I popped it in. BOOM good as new. SO RELIEVED NOW :D May sound very trivial, but it feels nice to be able to clean up your own mess.
Lessons: Never try to do anything hardware wise with your computer. And never going back to that overcharged shop again.
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