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Should you upgrade your laptop, or love the one you’ve got?

Your questions about buying and repairing laptops, answered.

Tyler Pina for Re/code

Mac or Windows? Pay to fix your old laptop, or suck it up and get a new one? And what’s the best gaming laptop to buy?

These were just a few of the questions Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode tackled on this week’s Too Embarrassed to Ask. They were joined in the effort by this week’s special guest The Verge’s Dan Seifert.

Together, the trio answered your questions about buying (or not buying) new laptops, and which laptops to buy if you do decide to upgrade. Whether you’re in the market for a cheap Chromebook or the pricey new MacBook, this podcast is for you:

Thank you to everyone who submitted questions about laptops — remember that you can always send in questions about any topic to us by tweeting @LaurenGoode, @KaraSwisher or @Recode with the hashtag #AskRecode.

Listen to or download the episode in the player above, or click here to subscribe on iTunes. You can also listen on Google Play Music. Or, you can find Too Embarrassed to Ask on TuneIn and Stitcher.

Want more podcasts? How about Recode Media with Peter Kafka, which features in-depth, no-BS interviews with the most interesting people in the media world every Thursday. Click here to subscribe to Recode Media right now on iTunes and click here to listen on Google Play Music.

On Monday, Kara Swisher will be back on Recode Decode. Click here to subscribe on iTunes, and click here to listen on Google Play Music. And on Recode Replay, you can hear all the audio from our live events, including some don’t-miss sessions from Code/Media 2016. To subscribe to that, click right here for iTunes and right over here for Google.

You can follow @Recode on Twitter for the latest on upcoming guests.

If you like what we’re doing, please write a review on iTunes — and if you don’t, just tweet-strafe Kara and Lauren. Tune in next Friday for another episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask!

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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