Laptops Restored Blog

For customers living outside of Tucson, Laptops Restored is now offering mail-in service.

Over the past 3 years most laptop screens have been switched over from a roughened glass surface to a smooth anti-reflection coated surface. While it was ok to clean the old style screens with an alcohol-based cleaner such as Windex, doing so for a glossy screen will damage the coating, eventually turning it yellow. There are several non-alcohol based screen cleaners out there some of which can be ordered online and some bought at an office supply store. Here’s a link to further discussion on the topic.

We often work on laptops with damaged keyboards: sticky keys, non-functioning keys, and missing keys. The question that our customers often ask us is whether the keyboard should be repaired or replaced. We always advise to replace, the reason being is that labor is 2/3 of the total cost and labor is the same is not more for a keyboard repair. Also this way you’re getting a new keyboard with a greatly reduced chance of additional malfunction.