Ooooooooooh new laptop purchase. I am going to hold off on my new laptop purchase due to the new addition that was luckily added to my arsenal. Read below.
You should have seen what I have done to a laptop that belonged to my ex-gf's mom. Long story short, her mom suffered from manic depression so I had this laptop that belonged to her, the thing would turn off randomly, & I found out there was spillage right on the CPU fan/heatsink assembly. Opened it up, cleaned the mess, spillage messed up the CD-ROM drive somehow which did not allow me to install XP so I used BartPE to do the job and badabing badaboom got a new laptop for my use!!!
Eh! it will hold me down for a good year before I purchase a newer one with better tech on it =D.