Upgrading and Repairing Laptops, Second Edition is the owner’s manual technicians and hobbyists need to fix or upgrade their portable machines. Updates to the second edition include the latest processors and motherboards, complete assembly and disassembly information, updated memory standards, upgrading hard drive to increase performance, and changes in networking and firewalls.

Today’s laptops can handle multimedia just as well as any desktop machine, and Scott covers the changes in audio and video hardware, and how to ensure that your freshly burned CDs and DVDs will play anywhere you choose. This edition includes a DVD full of additional resources and unique how-to video with Scott working on laptop computers.