In may 2024, i bought a hewlett-packard shadow elf 5 computer, which cost me $2870, but it was a year of warranty, and it was reassuring that when it came to its expiry, the keyboard suddenly had several broken buttons, the battery had problems, plugged the power in, turned it off as soon as it was pulled out, and could not be moved at all。
I applied for a warranty, and when i recovered it, i found that the c side had been completely replaced, with bumped dents on the corner, the battery was not from the original plant, it was a third-party refurbishment, and the official claim was only $50, for vague reasons。
In june 2026, when i planned to clean up the fan dust, i pulled the machine open and touched the fan with a toothbrush, and the two blades were broken. The fan was thin as paper, the bearings were buzzing, and the two repair shops had reported the price of over $200, but the more i saw it, the more i saw it, the less the dust, the less the wind itself should be so easily broken。
I was searching the shadow elves five promotion fan, finding a 43-dollar fan with a 2019-size specter, batch code, not a non-plasted bulk, and buying a screw suit of 35 dollars, for a total of less than 80, which is much cheaper than repairing it once。
I'm going to turn off the switch, pull the power, then release the battery by pressing the button, but the other notebooks have to pay attention to the problem. I'm going to split the screws, mix the length and the problem, slowly release the brass pipe in the diagonal order, fearing that cpu and the card will be deformed, and clean up the dust with a soft brush and do not dare to scratch the hot fin。
I looked at the polarity of the orientation and interfaces when i installed the new fan, and i put my hand in it, so i didn't push it, and now it's a half-hour game, temperatures are about 10 degrees lower and the sound of the fan is smaller, and many of the so-called original replacements are machine-dismantling, without serial numbers and temperature, and some even pretend to be a brush-free fan with a regular straight current。
I then looked into the fact that the dispersing model team had used a low-cost scheme, that the manufacturer knew it would not last for a few years, that the warranty period would pass, that the user would have to plant itself, that there was no monitoring mechanism between the platform and after the sale, and that the user could not verify the truth。
And the night after the fan was replaced, i felt in my heart that it wasn't so hard to fix the computer, but that it was too little to know, and that it was different between customers and repairers。
