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2006-09-19, 12:48 PM | #1 |
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I think my pc took a shit
I restart my laptop and nothing happens. Guessing that it is too hot again, I cool it and still nothing. This will cause a lot of problems for the next few days. Greenie knows what I am talking about
I am using my wifes old laptop right now but it has nothing on it...not even Word, much less an email client. |
2006-09-19, 01:06 PM | #2 |
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2006-09-19, 01:18 PM | #3 |
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macs never die, Cleo? Why do they even have a service department?
Mine is running right now and I am busy moving stuff onto my home server. So, no matter what, I will have all my crap. I backup every other day but, to retrieve a backup file on a different pc would be a little tricky I think. I am "PC" shopping as we speak. I can't believe how cheap they are these days. |
2006-09-19, 02:44 PM | #4 |
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To make PC users feel better.
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2006-09-19, 11:05 PM | #5 |
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Jim I just build them from dell now. I buy the replacement warranty. Plus I'm dell certified, not that it means much. But it allows me to call out replacement parts for my system over night. Or I can even role out a tech to my house, it's nice not to have to bother with a tech support. I don't even want to bother with someone who built it who is going to want to open it, to fix it. For the extra bucks I let someone else deal with it, just send me a new one. lol
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2006-09-20, 07:11 AM | #6 |
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I hate dell... A few years ago, I was buying my son a new PC. I ordered it just before Thanksgiving. A week before Christmas, they changed the arrival date to December 28th. I called and they told me they were out of stock of the video card I ordered. So, I said, put a better one in then. They told me they would have to then cancel the original order and start all over and it would take another 2 weeks at least.
I went to one of my favorite places, pcconnection.com and ordered a Sony which came the next day. And, there was no sales tax. I have transfered everything to a different laptop and I feel like I have time now. So, I have been looking at voodoopc.com and thinking it might be time for liquid cooled And, one of the color choices is orange. A nice orange tower, orange monitor, orange keyboard and an orange mouse. The only problem is, once I finish building my dream pc, it comes to about $15k But, who really needs 8 Gigs of RAM? |
2006-09-20, 09:50 AM | #7 |
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Emmy got a real nice pc just last week its fully loaded and runs like a dream...
here are the basics of it... 4gig ram 512mb geforce 7900gtx graphic intel core 2 duo processors 2.8ghz 500gb HD full wireless enabled super multi dvd burners and cd labeller complete media system with full tivo for recording / playing tv wireless kboard / mouse remote ctrl yada yada yada... you get the idea. I've never seen a system run so well and the gaming is awesome. The nicest piece is the graphics card... What a beast. Looks like a hotrod with cooling pipes coming out of every orifice lol. She was going to get one from dell but the nearest matching system they could offer had a 49 day waiting time on it and was more expensive. Before tax this one came in at just under $3,000cad from future shop and they put it all together as a custom build. they were bowled over saying it was the highest spec pc they had ever sold. |
2006-09-20, 09:56 AM | #8 | |
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2006-09-20, 11:48 AM | #9 |
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I have never been a fan of laptops, I doubt I'll ever buy one again.
All 5 have lasted less than a year and half, but I have a 6+ year old tower being used as the house server. (needed to add a couple more hard drives and a bit more ram) My oldest has had worse luck than me, so now he went back towers also. Now Em's tower - that'd be the one to play games on!!!
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2006-09-20, 01:43 PM | #10 |
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I have had one laptop in my lifetime (Toshiba Satellite) and it was an over priced total peice of shit, I dont think I'll ever get another one again, if I aint home chances are I am on vacation and dont need to work anyways, haha. For me personally I will probably never get anything but an Emachines, my first computer I got was an Emachines and it lasted over 3 years and still runs to this day (got it in 99). Even though it was fine I figured I needed to upgrade in 2003. So I got the best Emachines they made then and that is my machine still to this day. Never have had to replace a single thing on it ever. The only thing I had to replace on my old Emachines was the dial up modem that got knocked out by a storm. I have had tons of family and friends that have had anything from Compaqs, Dells, Gateways you name it and my Emachines always outlasts them even though I use my computer probably 10x more than they do.
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2006-09-20, 08:16 PM | #11 |
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That's what I had. As I explained in another thread, I took it to the woods and blasted it with my .45 "Stella". Very therapeutic
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2006-09-21, 07:29 AM | #12 |
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I havn't had any problems since I shook it to start. It an Acer laptop that I have already gotten my money out of. I am close to a new purchase but, I am going back and forth on if I need liquid cooled or not.
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2006-09-21, 07:38 AM | #13 |
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You probably don't need the liquid cooled, neon lights or colored case, but you're online all day, your comp may as well look cool too!
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2006-09-21, 09:12 AM | #15 | |
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2006-09-21, 09:14 AM | #16 |
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Personally I want a computer that makes zero noise.
I don't get why anyone other then high end video or something like that still buys a tower. When I'm home I plug my laptop into a large LCD, keyboard, and mouse, so it works and feels just like a tower. Before this year is out going to replace my old 17" Powerbook with a 17" Macbook Pro. Rumor has it that a newer design is due very soon so I've been waiting a bit but either way I need to replace this aging laptop that I'm on now. Besides being much faster then the laptop I'm using now the new Apple laptops use an Intel chip so I can run Windows programs, like IE for testing my websites, right inside the Mac OS using at full speed using Parallels. |
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Voodoo makes a really cool silent media center pc that works like a tivo with a huge hard drive. I was going to buy my wife one until a new ibm thinkpad fell of a truck and I had to pick it up for really cheap for her. But, I still love the thought of having a silent media center pc that I could hook up to my big HDTV, use a wireless keyboard and mouse and both be able to record tv and use it online with a 55 inch monitor. Not to mention the audio functions it would provide. |
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