On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 05:36:39PM +0100, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
I have certainly seen machines with stickers on saying opening the case voids the warranty. Googling, it seems that some laptop manufacturers say it would void the warrant, some don't. So if you have a new laptop and you want to change the hard disk, if you care about the warranty, read it before changing any components.
In that case, don't buy rubbish laptops then :)
Sensible laptop manufacturers make the hard disk a user replaceable item and ship a new disk which they exchange with the old one on the doorstep. Quite how anyone would ever know you swapped the hard disk on your laptop I really don't know, even if there was a warranty sticker covering the drive bay they'd have trouble proving that it didn't mysteriously fall off one day.
Adam