I'm changing career to creative accountant
One of my friends brothers has a knackered laptop. A 2013 Dell running Windows 7.
After his daughter spilt juice on it, he messages me frantically about fixing it.
I told him to immediately power it off, leave it off. I'd look into getting parts, he might have been lucky that it was only the keyboard that was tatered.
Got the part numbers, got him prices, and was then told that was too expensive, he'd have to think.
Couple of days later
"It can't boot.Why can't it boot"
Told him that it could be the juice has gotten past the keyboard, and why the chuffing hell did you switch it on again. Was told "That's what all IT people do, turn it off and on again"
It got better, he asked could I install the drive into a Mac, which then sparked the conversation that newer Macs had SSDs, so I'd probably have to get an adapter/caddy for him to use. That sounded expensive to him. Especially as he had about 300 quid to get a Mac laptop with 512 GB storage, and he needed 1TB for his music, plus some software to use with a mixing desk. He'd got a licence for one piece of software, he just needed to buy Logic Pro X.(174.99 from the App Store)
So from 300 quid for a laptop, minus software that was more than half of that, plus the possibility he might have to pay for a new license for other software from the PC for the Mac and the dock for his hard drive, what spec Mac was he looking for.
2017 MacBook Pro. Said I must know someone with one to sell.
I asked if he had been on the pop as his figures were all over the place.
He's told me he's going to get his MP3s off his hard drive and will let me know when that's done so we can talk about a discount as he's doing the hard work himself.
I didn't dare ask if he had backups.