Again without a computer

Self | 7/26/'18 | Zionist Conspirator

[CatOwner]

Yeah, a year and a half is a bit short for a PC's life. I usually get about 4-6 years out of a Dell PC (with memory and/or hard drive upgrades along the way) before purchasing a new one. Any replacement is generally to keep the hardware fast enough to deal with the latest OS bloat from Microsoft. I think I last replaced a power supply in a PC about 15 years ago.

My wife also has her own PC, and that's been the case for the last 20 years. She hardly ever uses it, settling for her Kindle, so I have a backup. Maybe you can get a cheap laptop to have for future emergencies?

[gundog]

Ctl-Alt-Delete still works? I thought that went out the window with Windows 7.

[rockinqsranch]

Twelve years with this Dell Inspiron, and still cranking. Only problems were the Microsoft stuff within including unsupported IE. On Firefox now, and everything is fine.

Sorry to see you having problems with yours.

Win-7 fwiw.

[FXRP]

I have at least 4 computers that will run FR. Come to southeast Florida and get one.

[ealgeone]

Sorry dude. Amazing how dependent we are on those things.

[dhs12345]

My 12 year old Dell laptop is still running. I had to replace the keyboard and install linux on it. A tad slow for these days but it works.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

1)Don't buy Dell
2) Don't shop at Best Buy, they are crooks.

[Kay Ludlow]

My mother has a stronger than normal electrical field, and she's broken more computers than I can remember. A couple years ago, my siblings and I bought her an Ipad. That has managed to keep working for her. It's wild though, because the cursor will move with her finger about 1/2 inch above the screen. Her only problem with it is she's broken the (replaceable) screen a couple times.

Best of luck to you getting back on line!

[carmen2017]

We used to call ours the Dell from Hell.

[JennysCool]

I bought a tablet PC on Amazon for less than $100 and it’s still working fine more than two years later. It makes a great backup if anything goes wrong with the “main computer,” and it sure beats going to the library!

Good luck to you!

[DiogenesLamp]

For what it’s worth, my current and previous two MacBook Pros have run for five to six years each with zero repairs. The machines silently upgrade themselves in the background with no user intervention other than making sure they are plugged into an outlet.

Yes, the Apple Borg Hive brain has you covered so long as you have a connection through which they can control your system. :)

[DiogenesLamp]

A Chromebook makes a good backup. They are cheap and are fine for browsing and email.

And I would assume they send every bit of data about your browsing habits and any other information you input back to the Google Monster.

[OldMissileer]

I wish you luck.

I build all of my own computers and have had only two crashes.

I had a power supply go bad and it toasted both the motherboard and the processor. Thank goodness the RAM survived. I went to Ebay and found a used board and processor for a very good buy and replaced them. The computer was down for a week but I always have an old spare that I keep so I am not lost.

[yarddog]

I am posting on a roughly 8 year old refurbished HP desktop. I think it was $120.

It has been running a little slow so last night I bought a McAfee protection plan. This morning it removed over 250,000 files and two viruses.

It is running better.

[SkyDancer]

[Hugin]

I’m currently using a Lenovo 17” laptop I bought on Amazon about 10 months ago. No problems other than the touchpad is very sensitive and for some reason the cursor has a tendency to jump around the page when I’m typing.

[Paladin2]

"...all signs point to it being unfixable. "

Desktops were designed to be modular. They are always fixable, though maybe not economically if others are doing the fixing.

Laptops? not so much.

Tablets and Smart Phones? Good luck.

[DiogenesLamp]

Twelve years with this Dell Inspiron, and still cranking.

I think this thing i'm on is from 2002 or so. It has been a most awesomely reliable machine. Bought it used for $85.00.

Dislike Windows 7. Hate Windows 8. Absolutely refuse to use Windows 10.

[wally_bert]

I buy only from Dell for PCs.

Since I can fix my own, I don’t bother with the extended warranty.

My current one is 4 years old and zero troubles from a hardware standpoint.

I put a new Dell tower in for my wife to replace the junker I hated yesterday.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#20: "A Chromebook makes a good backup. They are cheap and are fine for browsing and email."

Yes, that's good advice. Chromebooks are trouble free, and can be had for $200 or less.

They are good for email, browsing, and watching videos. If you buy a chromecast dongle for your TV, they are great for streaming video from Youtube, and even subscription services like Hulu, or Netflix. Plus Chromebooks are secure and virus free too.