laptops
Why a laptop becomes slow — and what is worth doing
Heat, storage and leftover software explain most slow machines. Not every slow laptop needs replacing.
A laptop that was fine two years ago and now takes an age to open a browser is usually full, hot, or both. Fans packed with dust, a drive with little free space, and browsers with fifty extensions are more common than mysterious viruses.
When hardware is the story
A drive that is actually failing, memory that is insufficient for the work you do, or a battery so tired the machine throttles, are hardware conversations. We separate those from a tidy-up.