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Does this use stacked batteries? And if so, has it sufficient safety features?

Just wonderin'

Funnily enough these Dell Alienware laptops don't have any seals or stickers saying "removal will void warranty"

That's my laptop, Alan, I have 2 of them with different innards

I do video editing, plus I need small laptops, and the market for small powerful laptops is restricted and expensive

That's a very neat video, ALAN

Jason's not that good a vendor cos he doesn't have a shop on my road and a cable-car connection

This is what I needed the screwdrivers for, but it's done me no good.

Dell ran a test and the temp was 87deg. The guy said he'd speak to his "colleague" (I bet he meant his boss!) and try to get me a new motherboard, but then emailed to say that an engineer would fit a new heatsink.

So I emailed back "a heatsink has no moving parts so how can a new one make a difference?" and he emailed me back and said (which I'd guessed anyway but I was being disingenuous):

Usually the heatsink is passive part which goes together with fan, but the fan is usually separate, depend on model.
Your heatsink is all together the copper “radiator” with pipes and the fan.
As you have been using the computer for a while and did not clean the heatsink with the fan, the heatsink and the fan are full of dust and the dust is hindering the airflow. That cases the gpu and cpu on higher temperature and the performance is lower.


Could someone look at this video and judge whether cleaning the fan of the M11x should be expected of non-expert users?



There is no visible dust whatsoever under the main bottom panel, and I've shone a torch into the fan-cover holes and can't see any, but the holes are very tiny so I can't see much of anything besides a hint of some blades.


I hardly use the M11x-R1 (dual core SU7300), I also have the R3 version with with an i7 CPU and it runs much cooler.

I messaged my brother and he told me where his screwdriver set is, so it's done. The set comprises one fat handle and lots of different types of heads, easy peasy.

Not that anybody gives a damn



but I've got my new second-hand Xperia X10 working again. All I need now is to understand how to use it