Slimbook Pro2 battery replacement - It's alive, it's alive!
This was a most happy exercise. One, I got to dabble in something I've not done before. Successfully. Two, I learned that the Slimbooks offer a reasonable deal of flexibility and modularity when it comes to hardware replacements, which is excellent. Hint, the small 500GB disk can easily be replaced, for instance. Three, the whole thing was quick and painless. Four, the Slimbook Pro2 is now fresh and youthful, just like when I bought it. Fifth, if anything, this exercise vindicates my choice to go with the Spanish laptop maker. Sixth, now that this powerful laptop is back in the game, it also serves a new purpose, and that's daily usage in the hands of a non-hardcore Linux user, ergo someone from the normies rank who loves Plasma for its beauty, precision and finesse.
So, a great day by all measures. The Pro2 does not need to be sent to the great electronics refill as all too often happens with modern hardware. The battery replacement also proves my point that there's no reason to discard perfectly usable gear just because "it's old" and companies want to make a quick buck. Nope. I still have the old guard of laptops, some now in their fourteenth year, and working well. They might not be pretty or ultra-fast, but they are usable. There's no need to waste money on pointless hardware upgrades. That ship has sailed around 2010-2011, and since the desktops and the laptops are more or less the same. Well, we're done. Thanks to everyone who chimed in and tried to help. Now, off I go writing about something else ...