3 ways to save on back-to-school tech shopping

Up your back-to-school game by upgrading your MacBook. No Images? Click here Back-to-school shopping is expensive—especially now that laptops are replacing good ol' fashioned paper. Here's a back-to-school savings hack for you: use the tech you already have. We've got 3 ways to get your laptop ready for the new school year: 1. Swap out the battery $69.99-$119.99 ​How can you take notes if your laptop battery can’t outlast your lecture? Free yourself from outlets. Study unplugged 2. Upgrade your hard drive $134.99-$369.99 School is stressful—a sluggish laptop that takes forever to boot up makes it more stressful. Switch to an SSD.  Get faster everything 3. Boost your memory $24.99-$169.99 Does your browser quit on you when you have 30 tabs of obscure articles open for a research paper due in 7 hours? More RAM will help with that. Open all the tabs   These students can fix your broken devices Teaching students to repair empowers them to take control of their stuff. Thanks to the Restart Project, these students are not only learning how to fix their own devices—they're teaching other students, too.  Watch students become teachers   Looking for more ways to repair this fall? Here are some more back-to-school repairs that will help you get your gear running, without breaking your budget.   Get repair ideas here   iFixit 1330 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, CA  Thanks for subscribing to the iFixit Newsletter.   Like    Tweet    Forward  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe