One thing that I learned last weekend is never put cans of pop in your laptop bag than put your laptop bag in the trunk of a car. The cans of pop will explode and destroy your laptops computer screen. The laptop it self is ok but the screen is not. I looked on eBay for a new screen and can pick one up for about $80.
This week I went and got a new laptop. It's the same brand but a lot more beefy. My new laptop has a Intel Core i7 3630QM Quad Core processor. Other wise the specs are close to the same. On Friday I managed to do an image of the hard drive that was in the computer to the 240GB SSD of my old laptop.
It's nice having a laptop that's faster then my desktop. I almost prefer to use the laptop most of the time at home now too.
The only data that was lost on the old laptop was all my MySQL databases for my PHP class but that's no big deal. All of them have been recreated quite quick.
