[Fat Charlie]

Fixing laptops is easy, if you can already do it.

We've got a mess of throwaway HP laptops from a company my wife used to work for. They were literal trash that eventually followed her home. New hard drives later, they're not top of the line by any stretch of the imagination, but the price was right and they work just fine. My daughter's broke right before a Zoom meeting last week. My wife diaged it as the keyboard and swapped in a replacement from another computer in time for the kid to join her meeting only a couple minutes late.

But it's not worth spending the time to learn that just to fix your own laptop. Unless you've already been forced to build that skillset for other reasons, just replace it. Seriously.