About Geek With Laptop

Geek With Laptop is an independent reference site about laptops: how to use them, look after them and choose them, plus an archive of the consumer-technology stories this domain published between 2008 and 2013. It is edited by Marcus Hale, who has spent most of his working life setting up, fixing and buying laptops for other people and writing down what he learned so he would not have to explain it twice.

The site's history. geekwithlaptop.com launched in 2008 as a one-author technology blog under the tagline Almost two steps ahead of technology. It published laptop how-tos, comparisons, consumer-tech news, viral listicles and the author's own WordPress plugin and themes, and was widely linked for all of them. The original site went offline in the late 2010s. It relaunched in September 2026 under new editorial ownership. This site is not affiliated with the original author or with the later derivatives of the WordPress projects, and it does not distribute them; it keeps an accurate record because so many old links still point here.

How pages are written. Every guide leads with a quick answer, then gives exact steps with menu paths and key combinations, then covers the failures people actually report. Retrospectives follow one frame: what the post reported, what happened next, why it still matters. Where a fact depends on model or year, the page says so. Where the record is thin, the page says that too. Numbers carry a year. Sources are named in the text.

What the site does not do. There are no affiliate links, sponsored placements, price widgets or advertising on any page as of this writing, and if that ever changes a disclosure will appear at the top of the page concerned. The site does not host software downloads. Health and safety pages summarise published research and are not medical advice. The password recovery guide covers regaining access to your own machine and nothing else.

Reviews and corrections. How-to guides are re-checked when a major operating system release changes a menu path; each page shows its last review date. If a step no longer matches your screen, or a retrospective has a fact wrong, the contact page explains how to tell us. Corrections are published by updating the page and its review date.

Imagery. The diagrams on this site are drawn in-house as vector graphics so they stay sharp at any size and follow the light or dark theme. There is no stock photography and no generated photography of people.