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OT: I have a SONY PCG-F580 laptop that needs a new motherboard. Believe it or not someone dropped it on it's wireless card (think one of the kids or the maid) and that caused the wireless card to smash into the motherboard and break that part of the motherboard. The wireless card looks fine. I can't seem to find a motherboard anywhere and I have a feeling if I find one it will be more than a new computer. The PC was:
- Pentium III 650 MHZ
- 128 Meg RAM
- 12G Hard disk
- Win 98

Just looking for some advice:

1) Should I try to fix this one?
2) Should I get another laptop and can I get one with at least the same processing power for maybe $500 used?
3) If I get a new laptop should I go for a bigger Harddisk and move the data from the old harddisk to the new one?
4) Should I just take the old hard disk and put it in the new laptop and are they all compatible?

Thanks for anybody's assistance here.