2009-04-19, 07:31 PM
In my experience opening laptops is as simple as taking out screws. Lots and lots of little, tiny, annoyingly different sized screws. This was on an 8 year Dell that I just wanted the HDD out of and wasn't willing to pay the $600 for a new motherboard. I'm going to assume for arguments sake that whatever warranty you had on the old laptop is now expired and that's it's actually a bad fan and not who-knows-what. Price-wise it shouldn't take more than an hour (at worst) in a PC shop, so (fanPrice + hourFee) maybe $70, and you get a work guarantee. DIY is fanPrice and no guarantee. Personally I'd pay the money for a shop repair.