It was incredible easy to take the laptop apart, and more importantly, it was easy to put back together. And I was able to get it to go online, a feat it hasn't accomplished in almost two years. The downside is that the OS is so old you can't watch anything with flash, java, etc., everything is outdated. And the thing has been too old to update for a long time now, it's only a pitiful G3, but I still want to find a copy of Tiger, get more memory instead of buying a new laptop. sigh