typing to death

While writing GHOST IN THE PACT, I basically typed my laptop to death. This typically happens about every two years, which makes sense once you realize I wrote about eight Frostborn books on that laptop.

Because I type my laptops to death, I usually get the cheapest one that’s powerful enough to use without becoming annoying.

Solid-state hard drives have gotten much cheaper over the last year, so this time I got a Dell Inspiron 15 3558 that came with a mechanical hard drive and planned to install a solid-state hard drive in it. The only downside to this plan was that it takes a lot of work to install a new hard drive in a Dell Inspiron 15 3558. Specifically, you have to remove this many screws:

But Dell has an excellent service manual for the Inspiron 15 3558, and I installed the drive and Windows 10 without incident. I am looking forward to using this laptop to write many new GHOSTS & FROSTBORN books, and typing it to death in the process!

-JM