I’ve had this laptop for seven years. It’s an Acer Nitro (cheesy name I know). Replaced the ssd and upgraded the memory around 2024, it goes beautifully despite its age. However the battery is running at about 64% efficiency and I’m dreading that any day now it’s going to swell or something.
It’s an easy laptop to take apart and updrade to an extent. I know the battery is replaceable. The problem is I wonder if it’s worth it to just buy a new laptop. Problem is I can’t really afford to get a new laptop unless I get something worse than what I have now. Plus I’m not sure how long it’s got to live even if I replace the battery.
Plus I’m… attached to the little guy. I’ve spent so much work fixing it and it’s always run so well that I’m sentimental now.
If you hadn’t upgraded it I would say it’d definitely be better to keep on chugging until you can afford a replacement, but investing money into parts for what you have kinda changes it
I know you’re attached to it, but maybe look into trade-in value or how much you could sell it for? That might close the gap a little on an upgrade or at least equivalent but new replacement, especially so if the newer parts increase its value enough