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How we publish

Editorial Guidelines

Anyone can publish a laptop repair guide. These are the rules we hold ourselves to so that ours are worth reading — who writes them, how they are checked, and what happens when we get something wrong.

We publish technical guides because an informed customer gets a better outcome, whether or not they end up using us. That only holds if the guides are accurate. This page sets out how we try to make sure they are.

Who writes here

Every guide on this site is written by a working engineer from our own bench, and carries their name. You can see who they are, what they are certified in and what each has published on the our engineers page.

We do not commission content from agencies, freelancers who have never opened a laptop, or guest-post networks. If a person's name is on a guide here, they work on the bench that guide describes.

What we publish, and what we do not

We publish:

  • Diagnostic guides that help you understand a fault before you pay anyone to fix it.
  • Honest price ranges for repairs, including the ones we do not carry out.
  • Safe checks a non-technical owner can genuinely do at home.
  • The reasoning an engineer uses on the bench, so you can judge whether a quote is fair.
  • Advice not to spend money, where that is the right answer.

We do not publish:

  • Step-by-step instructions for work that is genuinely dangerous to attempt at home.
  • Invented statistics, fabricated test results or numbers we cannot stand behind.
  • Content written to rank rather than to answer a real question.
  • Affiliate-driven recommendations dressed up as engineering advice.
  • Comparisons that disparage named competitors.

How a guide is researched

Guides start from the workshop, not from a keyword tool. The process is:

  1. A question turns up often enough. When the same question reaches the phone or the intake form repeatedly, it becomes a candidate for a guide.
  2. We pull the job records. What actually caused that fault across the machines we have seen, how often each cause came up, and what each repair cost to put right.
  3. An engineer drafts it. Written by whoever runs the relevant bench, from their own experience rather than from other websites.
  4. Manufacturer documentation is checked. Where a guide states something about a specific platform, it is verified against the maker's own service documentation.
  5. Claims that cannot be verified are removed or rewritten as a clearly-labelled typical range rather than a fact.

Review before publication

No guide goes live on one person's say-so. Every article is reviewed by our lead board-level engineer before publication, checking three things specifically:

  • Technical accuracy. Is every mechanism described correctly?
  • Safety. Could a reader following this hurt themselves or destroy the machine? Anything that could is either removed or given an explicit warning.
  • Honesty about uncertainty. Where outcomes cannot be promised — data recovery especially — does the guide say so plainly?

The review date is shown on every guide. This page was last reviewed on 23 September 2026.

How we handle prices

Prices are the part most repair sites refuse to publish, and the part readers most need. Ours follow four rules:

  • They are ranges, never single figures. A range reflects reality; a single number is either a bait price or a guess.
  • They come from invoices we have actually issued, not from a competitor survey.
  • They include parts, labour and VAT. No headline price that grows at checkout.
  • They are consistent everywhere on the site. The figure in a guide matches the figure on the pricing page and the services pages. If you ever find a mismatch, that is a bug — please tell us.

Component and panel pricing moves with the market, so ranges are reviewed periodically and the review date published. A range is not a quotation; a quotation follows a diagnosis.

Sources and linking

Where we rely on an external fact, we link to the primary source — legislation, a regulator, a standards body or the manufacturer's own documentation — not to a blog summarising it.

External links open in a new tab and carry rel="noopener noreferrer". We do not sell links, we do not accept paid guest posts, and we do not exchange links for placement. Anyone who emails us offering to "contribute an article with just one link" is deleted unread.

Our policy on AI-generated content

We use software tools in the production process — spelling, structure, formatting, checking that prices are consistent across pages. What we do not do is let a model decide what is true about a laptop.

Every technical claim on this site originates from an engineer's bench experience or from primary documentation, and every guide is read end to end by a named human before publication. A plausible-sounding paragraph about a fault nobody here has actually seen is worse than no paragraph at all, because it is indistinguishable from expertise until it costs someone money.

Commercial independence

This is a commercial site. We repair laptops for a living and we would like you to use us. That is the whole business model, and it is stated plainly rather than hidden.

What it does not mean:

  • No affiliate incentives. Where we mention a tool or a component brand, nobody is paying us to.
  • No manufacturer influence. We are an independent repairer and not an authorised service provider for anyone, which is set out in the disclaimer. No manufacturer reviews or approves what we publish.
  • Advice against spending stays in. Several guides here tell readers not to repair a machine. Those sections are the reason the rest is credible, and they do not get cut for conversion reasons.

Updates and corrections

Repair practice, component pricing and manufacturer policy all change. Guides are reviewed periodically and the review date is shown on each one and in the footer.

When we correct a substantive error — a wrong price band, a mis-stated cause, a step that turned out to be unsafe — we change the content, update the review date, and where the error could have led someone to act wrongly, we say what changed. We do not quietly rewrite history.

Tell us we are wrong

If something here is inaccurate, out of date, or unclear, we would rather know. Corrections from other engineers are especially welcome — you will not get a defensive reply.

Email the details and, if you can, the page and the paragraph. We read everything and we respond to substantive corrections within five working days. Contact routes are on the contact page.

Questions about this page? Write to hello@laptophabers.com or post to Unit 12, Riverside Workshops, 84 Long Lane, London SE1 4AU, United Kingdom. We reply to every written enquiry within five working days.