Comments | clockwork_zero: Really... I am here...sorta

clockwork_zero

Really... I am here...sorta

Feb 25, 2010 14:46

Well, I got back on LJ (hurray!) SORTA... but the past 2 weeks has been computer hell. The desktop started rebooting a few weeks ago. After running viral checks and checking all the error messages, and killing some dust bunnies - i started to come up with blanks. We took it into the local shop... where I bought most of it - and asked the fellow ( Read more... )

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ornithoptercat February 25 2010, 21:49:40 UTC

Possibly needs a new power supply and/or fan. Which are cheap. Possibly it's the motherboard or HD.

clockwork_zero February 26 2010, 13:36:39 UTC

yup. replaced the fan (one - we have 2). and got a new drive (we had 2 and got rid of 1). I think the next up is Power Supply. Then Motherboard.

If it turns out to be the motherboard we will need to sit down and think hard. New motherboard = new soundcard (As what we have is Quite Old). Then may as well update the memory too. And the question: should we update to Windoze7 with the new mboard/mem/soundc? All of a sudden a new motherboard =$500.

or just toss that $500 towards a mac.
sigh.
I need to buy a lottery ticket!

ornithoptercat February 26 2010, 20:13:12 UTC

Yep, new motherboard is "wait, maybe I should get a whole new machine".

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Re: Bite the Apple clockwork_zero February 26 2010, 13:30:45 UTC

heh.. i know. so shiny. so slick... so reliable. and not cheap.

the system we have now - has a 4 yr old motherboard, a 6 yr old case. New Microsoft HD's are cheap cheap. Prob the system originally cost $700-800 -> five years ago. On average it's been costing out $50 bucks a year = over 4 years. We tend to run it quite lean since we aren't gamers.

part of the costs with a Mac would be stuff like buying a version of Photoshop, of some kind. I've yet to find anything that compares. then there is the compatibilty issues - cause my bro will def need to read it off his comp. I understand though that the latest versions are pretty good at handling Microsoft prods.

Bite the Apple rackle February 26 2010, 11:40:14 UTC

How much money and time are you spending on a machine that doesn't work?

Apple hardware is, indeed, more expensive, but it and MacOS X are ever so much more reliable (than many generic Intel computers and MSWindows). Besides, there's a UNIX-like OS under that thar purdy GUI!