Your Laptop Care Guide Your laptop (笔记本电脑) is not just an expensive toy—it's one of your most important assets while at work and play. It's extremely important that you take good care of it. You should know about each piece of the hardware, and follow these guidelines. Don't Eat or Drink near Your Laptop! Fluids are the number one enemy of electronic items. If you do spill something on or in your laptop, turn the computer off immediately and unplug it. If there is standing liquid, try to dry that liquid off. Leave the laptop off and sitting at least overnight to allow time for it to dry. Our INTREON Care Centre can repair light to medium damage, but you can be without your laptop for days if any of its major components has to be replaced. If something catastrophic (灾难性的) does occur, you may wish to request for a laptop from us or to do a trade-in for a newer model. Don't Move Your Laptop While It Is On! This can severely damage your hard drive, and may cause you to lose files. In the case of hard disk damage, our specialized DATA RECOVERY laboratory will help you retrieve your priceless data using sophisticated recovery equipment. Don't Leave It in Your Car, an Unlocked Locker, or a Classroom! Laptop thefts in Singapore are relatively rare, but not impossible, and it will cost you a minimum of a few thousands of dollars to get a new laptop, not to mention all the files you lost. Back Up Your Personal Files Regularly! Put your personal files on an external hard drive, which is automatically backed up daily, burn a CD or DVD, or you can choose to do a HARD-DISK CLONING before you clean up or reformat your system for better performance. Don't Download Random Software off the Internet! Most of these 'seemingly useful' softwares contain spy-ware, which will damage your Windows installation, waste resources, generate pop-up ads, and report your personal information back to the company that provided that software. A kitten that walks around your screen may be cute, but you won't think it is when you need to bring your laptop to our INTREON Care Centre for repair! Don't Dismantle Your Laptop or Attempt Repair! Laptop repair is a specialized skill and it is a dynamic problem solving process. If you are untrained, you will easily damage the delicate components of your laptop, lose your valuable data, or worse suffer from electrical shocks. Keep Your Laptop Within the Safe Temperature Range! Every laptop has a recommended safe range of operating temperature (usually about 10—35 degree Celsius). Prolonged exposure of a laptop to extreme cold or hot temperature can result in glitches (故障) and possible hardware damage. As such, we offer the following recommendations: Don't leave your laptop sitting in the car for extended periods of time. This applies during both hot and cold weather. Don't leave the laptop computer sitting exposed to direct sunlight or near any heat source for extended periods of time. Avoid Static Electricity (静电) and Magnetic Fields! Static is the enemy. It can ruin your system and your disks. Avoid magnetic fields. Be careful with the TVs, speakers and phones. Both can cause problems for laptop and diskettes. Consider Getting Your Laptop Insured! Is your laptop insured? Find out from your authorized agents: What's covered? How much will you pay if something happens? A good insurance will come in handy especially when you are traveling overseas. Take Good Care of Your LCD. The screen on a laptop is an LCD (liquid crystal display) composed of individual transistors at every pixel (像素). The screens of the laptop have 1,470,000 pixels. &nbs