To be fair, most laptops are fairly durable, although my brother’s Acer laptop (relatively low-class) lost its videocard after 6 years of work. But then again he almost treats it like a dining table sometimes so not very surprising.

I’ve heard many people repurposing laptops to use them as mini-servers because they have a built-in battery.

I did this with my previous, tiny Acer netbook and an install of Linux Mint.

I ended up serving some static HTML of some Monster Hunter 4U data with Apache httpd.

I did this because the Nintendo 3DS has a low-powered web browser, which was kinda adequate six years ago but doesn’t have the oomph for JS frontends like Angular and React.

So I grabbed the JSON, generated some bare bones HTML, and viola; I had a quick reference without leaving the console, all tucked within the home network.

That’s a shame; as far as I know, Toshiba had a good reputation for laptops.

I think this explains why I had a hard time finding an OEM replacement battery for my wife’s laptop last month.

I went with a third party brand and so far so good.