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March 8, 2009 at 10:02 PM #363115March 8, 2009 at 10:16 PM #362526
CoronitaParticipant[quote=Ricechex]Thanks everybody! The laptop is now dead. Always good to have 2 computers in the house. Going to order a new laptop right now….BTW, the one that died was an HP, bought 2 years ago for $1200, has been back to the manufacturer 2X for a bad motherboard. Just got in back 6 weeks ago. Won’t be buying one of those again.[/quote]
Laptop these days aren’t built to last. They are designed to break in about 2-3 years, just in time for an upgrade. The notable exceptions are macs, which seem to hold out pretty well, not to mention things don’t depreciate quite as fast.
It’s useful to have a spare pc handy…in my case, I have 8 active: 3 pc desktops, 3 laptops, 1 mini-pc for travel, and 1 newly acquired mac. Yes, I know, I’m probably king of geekdom…and am not counting all the other relics sitting in my garage collecting dust, including an Apple IIe, Mac SE/30, IIx, IIsi, 286, 386, for some of you older folks.And everything still runs. Really, I have a purpose for each one. Really I do…
March 8, 2009 at 10:16 PM #362821CoronitaParticipant[quote=Ricechex]Thanks everybody! The laptop is now dead. Always good to have 2 computers in the house. Going to order a new laptop right now….BTW, the one that died was an HP, bought 2 years ago for $1200, has been back to the manufacturer 2X for a bad motherboard. Just got in back 6 weeks ago. Won’t be buying one of those again.[/quote]
Laptop these days aren’t built to last. They are designed to break in about 2-3 years, just in time for an upgrade. The notable exceptions are macs, which seem to hold out pretty well, not to mention things don’t depreciate quite as fast.
It’s useful to have a spare pc handy…in my case, I have 8 active: 3 pc desktops, 3 laptops, 1 mini-pc for travel, and 1 newly acquired mac. Yes, I know, I’m probably king of geekdom…and am not counting all the other relics sitting in my garage collecting dust, including an Apple IIe, Mac SE/30, IIx, IIsi, 286, 386, for some of you older folks.And everything still runs. Really, I have a purpose for each one. Really I do…
March 8, 2009 at 10:16 PM #362970CoronitaParticipant[quote=Ricechex]Thanks everybody! The laptop is now dead. Always good to have 2 computers in the house. Going to order a new laptop right now….BTW, the one that died was an HP, bought 2 years ago for $1200, has been back to the manufacturer 2X for a bad motherboard. Just got in back 6 weeks ago. Won’t be buying one of those again.[/quote]
Laptop these days aren’t built to last. They are designed to break in about 2-3 years, just in time for an upgrade. The notable exceptions are macs, which seem to hold out pretty well, not to mention things don’t depreciate quite as fast.
It’s useful to have a spare pc handy…in my case, I have 8 active: 3 pc desktops, 3 laptops, 1 mini-pc for travel, and 1 newly acquired mac. Yes, I know, I’m probably king of geekdom…and am not counting all the other relics sitting in my garage collecting dust, including an Apple IIe, Mac SE/30, IIx, IIsi, 286, 386, for some of you older folks.And everything still runs. Really, I have a purpose for each one. Really I do…
March 8, 2009 at 10:16 PM #363011CoronitaParticipant[quote=Ricechex]Thanks everybody! The laptop is now dead. Always good to have 2 computers in the house. Going to order a new laptop right now….BTW, the one that died was an HP, bought 2 years ago for $1200, has been back to the manufacturer 2X for a bad motherboard. Just got in back 6 weeks ago. Won’t be buying one of those again.[/quote]
Laptop these days aren’t built to last. They are designed to break in about 2-3 years, just in time for an upgrade. The notable exceptions are macs, which seem to hold out pretty well, not to mention things don’t depreciate quite as fast.
It’s useful to have a spare pc handy…in my case, I have 8 active: 3 pc desktops, 3 laptops, 1 mini-pc for travel, and 1 newly acquired mac. Yes, I know, I’m probably king of geekdom…and am not counting all the other relics sitting in my garage collecting dust, including an Apple IIe, Mac SE/30, IIx, IIsi, 286, 386, for some of you older folks.And everything still runs. Really, I have a purpose for each one. Really I do…
March 8, 2009 at 10:16 PM #363120CoronitaParticipant[quote=Ricechex]Thanks everybody! The laptop is now dead. Always good to have 2 computers in the house. Going to order a new laptop right now….BTW, the one that died was an HP, bought 2 years ago for $1200, has been back to the manufacturer 2X for a bad motherboard. Just got in back 6 weeks ago. Won’t be buying one of those again.[/quote]
Laptop these days aren’t built to last. They are designed to break in about 2-3 years, just in time for an upgrade. The notable exceptions are macs, which seem to hold out pretty well, not to mention things don’t depreciate quite as fast.
It’s useful to have a spare pc handy…in my case, I have 8 active: 3 pc desktops, 3 laptops, 1 mini-pc for travel, and 1 newly acquired mac. Yes, I know, I’m probably king of geekdom…and am not counting all the other relics sitting in my garage collecting dust, including an Apple IIe, Mac SE/30, IIx, IIsi, 286, 386, for some of you older folks.And everything still runs. Really, I have a purpose for each one. Really I do…
March 9, 2009 at 9:04 AM #362631fredo4
ParticipantI just got a really nice Sony laptop a couple of weeks ago at Best Buy for around $470. They usually have some good things on sale.
March 9, 2009 at 9:04 AM #362922ParticipantI just got a really nice Sony laptop a couple of weeks ago at Best Buy for around $470. They usually have some good things on sale.
March 9, 2009 at 9:04 AM #363075ParticipantI just got a really nice Sony laptop a couple of weeks ago at Best Buy for around $470. They usually have some good things on sale.
March 9, 2009 at 9:04 AM #363116ParticipantI just got a really nice Sony laptop a couple of weeks ago at Best Buy for around $470. They usually have some good things on sale.
March 9, 2009 at 9:04 AM #363225ParticipantI just got a really nice Sony laptop a couple of weeks ago at Best Buy for around $470. They usually have some good things on sale.
March 9, 2009 at 2:53 PM #362820UCGal
Participant[quote=flu]It’s useful to have a spare pc handy…in my case, I have 8 active: 3 pc desktops, 3 laptops, 1 mini-pc for travel, and 1 newly acquired mac. Yes, I know, I’m probably king of geekdom…and am not counting all the other relics sitting in my garage collecting dust, including an Apple IIe, Mac SE/30, IIx, IIsi, 286, 386, for some of you older folks.And everything still runs. Really, I have a purpose for each one. Really I do…
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flu – if you ever decide you no longer need some of the older working pc’s… you might consider donating it to your local (or not so local) elementary school. I know San Diego Unified doesn’t have the budget to put computers in every classroom – so my sister, a teacher, is always telling me and my other nerdly friends to give our old PC’s to her school. They don’t have to be all that powerful… they can be apple or windows… most teachers have educational software in both flavors… and will gladly use any donated pc’s.
Just putting that out there.
March 9, 2009 at 2:53 PM #363114Participant[quote=flu]It’s useful to have a spare pc handy…in my case, I have 8 active: 3 pc desktops, 3 laptops, 1 mini-pc for travel, and 1 newly acquired mac. Yes, I know, I’m probably king of geekdom…and am not counting all the other relics sitting in my garage collecting dust, including an Apple IIe, Mac SE/30, IIx, IIsi, 286, 386, for some of you older folks.And everything still runs. Really, I have a purpose for each one. Really I do…
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flu – if you ever decide you no longer need some of the older working pc’s… you might consider donating it to your local (or not so local) elementary school. I know San Diego Unified doesn’t have the budget to put computers in every classroom – so my sister, a teacher, is always telling me and my other nerdly friends to give our old PC’s to her school. They don’t have to be all that powerful… they can be apple or windows… most teachers have educational software in both flavors… and will gladly use any donated pc’s.
Just putting that out there.
March 9, 2009 at 2:53 PM #363267Participant[quote=flu]It’s useful to have a spare pc handy…in my case, I have 8 active: 3 pc desktops, 3 laptops, 1 mini-pc for travel, and 1 newly acquired mac. Yes, I know, I’m probably king of geekdom…and am not counting all the other relics sitting in my garage collecting dust, including an Apple IIe, Mac SE/30, IIx, IIsi, 286, 386, for some of you older folks.And everything still runs. Really, I have a purpose for each one. Really I do…
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flu – if you ever decide you no longer need some of the older working pc’s… you might consider donating it to your local (or not so local) elementary school. I know San Diego Unified doesn’t have the budget to put computers in every classroom – so my sister, a teacher, is always telling me and my other nerdly friends to give our old PC’s to her school. They don’t have to be all that powerful… they can be apple or windows… most teachers have educational software in both flavors… and will gladly use any donated pc’s.
Just putting that out there.
March 9, 2009 at 2:53 PM #363306Participant[quote=flu]It’s useful to have a spare pc handy…in my case, I have 8 active: 3 pc desktops, 3 laptops, 1 mini-pc for travel, and 1 newly acquired mac. Yes, I know, I’m probably king of geekdom…and am not counting all the other relics sitting in my garage collecting dust, including an Apple IIe, Mac SE/30, IIx, IIsi, 286, 386, for some of you older folks.And everything still runs. Really, I have a purpose for each one. Really I do…
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flu – if you ever decide you no longer need some of the older working pc’s… you might consider donating it to your local (or not so local) elementary school. I know San Diego Unified doesn’t have the budget to put computers in every classroom – so my sister, a teacher, is always telling me and my other nerdly friends to give our old PC’s to her school. They don’t have to be all that powerful… they can be apple or windows… most teachers have educational software in both flavors… and will gladly use any donated pc’s.
Just putting that out there.
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