Shiny new 'puter, whee!

[hobbitblue]

Hah! I actually have/had a good reason for not being on lj, over and beyond being a bit rubbish at keeping up (and ignoring the fact I can read it on my phone or tablet, but never remember to do so..). Yes, sad to say my old PC finally bit the dust with a rather dramatic bang. Eep! Didn't hold out much hope the poor 12 year old machine was fixable

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[cmcmck]

We need a new one ourselves, so I'm watching! :o)

[hobbitblue]

Heh, well this is a Zoostorm, budget thing, out of Argos tho they sell them in many places.

[hummingwolf]

Congrats on the new computer!!

[hobbitblue]

Thankee - can't keep my paws off it thus far :)

[ganimede]

I really need to get myself a new computer because my old one is really past it now. Although I'd be going for a laptop rather than a desktop because I don't have the space. The one thing I'm not looking forward to is having to get whichever new version of Windoze is out at that point - I need it now to run Adobe stuff which is annoying. Grrr. I'd really rather not get Windows 8, the amount of hatred there is for it is well and above the usual level of Microsoft hatred like you said.

As for copying stuff off your old drives, might it be worth looking into getting a backup drive and putting everything on that, that way you won't have the worry of stuff getting fried in the tower.

[hobbitblue]

If you look around there are plenty of places selling laptops as well as desktops with Windows 7, clearly enough people dislike 8 to have made the previous Os still viable, which is good news.. Argos was really good value for my PC and had lots of win7 machines, I initially looked at PC World and then Dabs.com but Argos came up trumps, same manufacturor as the Dabs ones I was looking at in any case (Zoostorm).

I do have a backup drive, not checked what's on it, I think most of my important files are on it but not the pics and music etc - most of those were on my second HDD so should have escaped frying, we can hope in any case. Not felt like poking any of that yet, just concentration on having the new machine ready for this course (and waiting patiently for the android development kit to download...). At least multi tasking no longer makes the puter fall over with the vapours, even if my broadband's still rubbish!

[ganimede]

I haven't dared look around really. I know as soon as I'd start looking, I'd start wanting and I'm not in a position to want anything yet! I'd probably get another Dell anyway, mine has been brilliant and the fact that you can customise the processor and RAM and everything is a bonus. Plus, they do sell machines with Ubuntu on rather than Windows so you don't have to pay for an OS you're not going to use.

How are pictures not important files!? Messing about with computers, backing up and restoring stuff takes far too much brain. As much as I love Ubuntu, I hated having to completely back up all my stuff in order to update to a new version every year. It was such a pain in the arse.

[hobbitblue]

I was looking at the Dell site and they had hardly anything to custiomise, just 2 machines in my price range and no options.. most disappointing :(

By "important" I meant essential/useful for current purposes, like settings and program files, obviolsy my pics and music matter, but they can sit on the other drive til I have brain. Hadn't realised updating Ubuntu was that much of a hassle, ugh.