For many of us on this site this is a really easy and straightforward job to do.

It took me a couple of hours, mostly backing up and restoring files. Then half an hour or so walking them through the (small) user interface changes now they're not on Windows. Plus maybe I'll get a call for help about something down the track.

But there is absolutely no way my friend would have done this on her own - even with the very best internet tutorials and docs. It takes knowledge and trust.

My point is: if you're reading this then there's a good chance you also know someone that you could offer to do it for, too.

The one biggish (but optional) service job that I did was re-pasting the CPU heatsink.

That took as long as everything else combined, but I decided to do it after memtest86+ was showing 102C core temperatures with the fan at 100%!

After replacing the thermal paste, memtest shows temps in the high 50s with barely audible fan. Better!

#repair