ThinkPad

A dead arrow key and a jammed trackpad on a two-year-old ThinkPad E15 might be one problem, not three.

Your trackpad surface works but the clicks don't? That's not a trackpad failure — it's a swollen battery pushing the click plate out of reach.

That dead-battery laptop in your drawer can still serve. Here's the whole playbook — headless Linux, thermals, and the battery question nobody agre...