In short, no - we strongly recommend you purchase an extended warranty with your machine and only use the OEM to repair your laptop.


If you find yourself in need of a repair outside the warranty period, we recommend checking with one of the "cell phone repair" places in Fort Wayne.  We have very little experience with any of these companies, but you generally want a company you can go back to and "yell at" if things aren't right.  That means they have strong motivation to do it right to begin with.


We do NOT recommend attempting to repair or upgrade a laptop yourself.  There are so many tiny parts in these devices nowadays that it's super easy to break or lose them, and beyond that, laptops just aren't made to be easily repaired anymore.  They're made to be thin and light and "disposable".  Some even glue the machines together such that they don't even repair the machines under warranty - they just send you a new one.


Finally, if you choose to repair the machine anyway, please use OEM parts.  There is an astounding array of "junk" parts out there on the Internet, and you don't want to tear a machine apart only to find it broken again in a few months. This is true of screens, of batteries, of power ports, etc.