And our previous laptop stripping was interrupted by my wife calling on all of us to clear the table so that we could start to eat dinner.... Sigh, at least we managed to rip apart that bloody Acer Aspire One before we got into too much trouble!

It did leave us with two more laptops to strip for the next day... But this time, my daughters were not so keen to help out. They had already done one each... And more importantly, they were having their TV/game time and that was much more fun than stripping a laptop with their Dad!

So, the first one was one that was pretty easy to open up... An Xmg Fusion gaming laptop that had been my main laptop until it died at the start of 2024. A great laptop with a large battery, decent gaming ability, and a mechanical keyboard as well! Clickety Clickety...

Anyway, I was pretty sure that I had already stripped this one, as it was a pretty recent failure and it was an actual failure rather than a phasing out and replacement of aging tech. But it doesn't hurt to be sure, and these laptops are fast and easy to open up... And sure enough, both m2 ssd bays were empty.

Last on the list was my wife's old Schenker laptop... Schenker is the "work" brand of the Xmg label... Or is Xmg the gaming brand for Schenker, actually I think it is more that way around!

She moved off this laptop when I moved off an older XPS13... And she's still on the Xps, a great laptop that I really enjoyed... But it's gaming chops were too weak for me.

And true to the Xmg/Schenker ethos, this was super easy to open up. Two sliding panels each secured by a few easy to remove screws. On panel for the larger Ssd bay, and the other to access the other parts of the computer.

And with a simple and clear marking to show how and what to do... Remove screws and slide... No annoying and hard to find retaining clips no additional securing screws that need to be accessed from a completely different side under the keyboard... Just unscrew and slide.

I wasn't going to open up the main access hatch, as I didn't think that there were more ssds to remove... I figured that that was CPU and RAM access as well as wireless and all the rest of that... But luckily I did do it... Seeing as it was so easy anyway... And yes, it did turn out that there was another m2 ssd bay that was populated. Yay, another one to use a mobile storage or backup!

Handy Crypto Tools

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ByBit: Leverage and spot trading, next Binance?
OkX: Again, another Binance contender?