gamer and programmer, so, you know, kind of attached
it's older than my daughter who's 6, I built it right before she was born
the last 6 months I have burned all my dvd drives (at once, hehe), 2 vid cards, had a hard drive go, power supply is probably a little pressed, sound card, monitor
now it's bsd most of the time
luckily alienware has agreed that if i give them money they will send me a new one
I'm still sad that it is dead, gonna gut it when the new one comes so i can add drives and the sound card and whatever else
Six years is pretty good! Worst part for me is wrestling the new system to my will. I always waste a day setting up the new OS.
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luckily I have been thrown into windows 7 at work or the xp > 7 switch might have hurt a fair bitt
2 years ago I put 6 PC cases into a skip what were obsolete due to upgrading to newer spec over the years, I removed the hard drives but the rest was of no use and i am not the kind of person who wants anyone in my house looking at a PC what now not worth a lot of money
2 of them were my 2nd and 3rd PC going back to 1991 - 92 and over a period of 12 months I spend in excess of £7,000 on these 2 boxes and they had earned me a lot of money so it was hard to let go of them plus 2 old servers had to go too one of them being my first one so all in it was sentimental and personal to me
what i am coming to is this.......
the total value was in excess of £ 12,000 when i bought them and I put the cases on top of the garden spoil in a skip, while i am continuing filling the skip with turf and soil from the rear garden i was working on some bastard had turned up in his van and had taken 4 of them off and into the back of his van
I was absolutely vivid, granted they are of no further use to me but come on I am a human being with feelings, I said "hey put them back" where you got them from so he did and drove off
I then spent the following 20 minutes ramming soil and turf inside all of them and then covered them over, sort of a burial and closure for my obsolete kit what i had purchased over the years :)
it had broke my heart (financially) to have to do this in the first place........grrrrrrr
I have one on life support now. Yes, I have its replacement already but I hate making the move.
Macs are awesome for moving.
Plug it in to backup and click a button. Everything, including programs, is moved over so you don't have to reinstall everything.
Aren't Macs the computing equivalent of Fisher Price Activity Bears?
(ducks)
QuoteMacs are awesome for moving.
There are similar systems for a PC - I just never say the point in using them myself - half the benefit of upgrading to a new PC is the opportunity to get rid of all the clutter.
FWIW, and IMO, the battle between PC/Windows and Mac is over - the PC won - not that it matters too much though, as while that war was petering out, the landscape changed.
* Acceptable quality virtualisation arrived.
* Cloud stuff started happening.
* iPhone/Android and other mobile OSs arrived.
There will be pads and mobile devices that do 'what you need on the move' on the move, and the rest via online tools.
When the dust settles, it will be interesting to see how much is left for the Desktop to do - i don't think it will be all that much.
Can no hardware related thread EVER avoid Mac/PC snarking?! Really? ::)
... or kneejerk reactions it seems
I was making the point that it was 'over' - done - finished - the battleground has moved elsewhere - two bald men fighting over a comb