My sister's laptop recently died and it was cheaper, easier and quicker to just get her a whole new one than to try to fix the Mysterious Total Power Failure that broke it, so that's what we did.
But...it was just an electrical failure, really. I may be able to utilize the RAM in her new machine, research shows they're compatible, and the SSD is still perfectly functional. No data loss at all. The one issue is that the dead laptop's SSD is NVMe, which is a bit inconvenient to repurpose for a new laptop—I could plug it into Dorian (my desktop) with no issue, which is how we got some of her more important files back to her right away, but it's not my drive and I can't very well have her forced to jump over to Dorian every time she needs something off the drive.
So, I ordered her a little aluminum NVMe enclosure, which I got all set up and tested today. It works great, but it felt weird just having the entire brain of her laptop in this featureless container.
See, Kid's old laptop had a name, just like my tower does. A name that necessitated I bust out the label maker and do proper honor to the fallen.
It's what he would have wanted.
