Dell Vostro 5459 revive
I was using Dell Vostro 5459 previously. However, it has some hardware deficiencies. The battery capacity keeps dropping drastically within a year. That’s a very bad experience. Now, the fully charged battery is only 1% of the designed capacity. Then I purchased an external power bank from Dell. But that’s not an ideal design for a laptop that you need to bring extra gadget to everywhere, and charging external battery is too troublesome.
Since I mostly work from home, battery issue is still bearable. Then about 4 years of usage, the keyboard became weird. It will randomly fire some keys (I forgot which key) (related post). That’s truly unbearable because it affects my working experience. At the end I bought a new laptop, Lenovo Legion Y7000.
But recently, I have done some online shopping and I bought some useful tools, including (i) laptop opener pry tools, and (ii) compressed air. Both are super useful for DIY hardware cleaning. I use opener pry tools instead of screwdriver to avoid physical damage of the hardware cover. Moreover, taking out Dell Vostro 5459 keyboard becomes much easier. For compressed air, it allows me to clean out the dirt from laptop without disassembling the laptop. Disassembling the laptop for cleaning is too difficult for a noob like me.
Finally, I bought a Dell Vostro 5459 compatible keyboard replacement through online shopping. That’s wonderful thing, since the laptop keyboard is not purchasable from Dell official website. I replaced the keyboard with the pry tools I bought earlier, then clean the fans with compressed air. I haven’t spent time to verify whether the keyboard issue is totally solved, though I think it is solved.
Great online shopping!