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Well, I did a backup last night. And the computer's been behaving itself for now. It hasn't made any grinding noises in a week or so. Providing it survives the summer, I'll just save up for a new computer altogether as I'll be using a different computer primarily in the fall.
On another note, I did some research regarding my system. It was assembled in 1999, and the drive has an expected 5 year life. Which would be this year.
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But if you built a computer, then you could use your new hard drive in it.
Don't do anything stupid like buying a pre-built system. That's only foor fools and silly-billys.
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I realize I'm gonna catch shit for this (shit I will undoubtedly deserve), {MACDORK RANT} but my G4 w/ OSX.3 has been running solid for three weeks straight now. I've edited two feature-length DV movies, done some 3D modelling and rendering, scanning and Photoshoping work stuff up and down, Illustrator inside-out, Acrobat-ics, bunch of Excel star-charting stuff, all kinds of iTunes BS, networking to/from my PCs, and, of course, email & surfing throughout. No crashes. Not (only) bragging. It's just creepy in a way. Creepy good.
Also, last weekend, my dad, who I always think of as being fairly technically literate was having trouble getting his Wi-Fi to work under XP and asked his snot-nosed Mac-geek son to lend a hand. It was weird because his Cli� wasn't having any trouble. It took me about an hour-and-a-half and some fiddling with 'network bridge' stuff (?!), but I was eventually able to get his laptop working with his wireless router through a lot of trial and error. Inspired, this week, I finally bought myself a wireless card for my PowerBook. I installed it at an internet caf�. I was online in, seriously, five minutes. No, but these computers were quite a bit more expensive than their PC counterparts. Somehow I feel like I got my money's worth. My two cents. {/MACDORK RANT}
Sorry to hear about your drive, Topher. I've lost a couple that way (Hooray Quanum!). About the only upside is that it's a really good excuse to get a bigger one. I don't know if XP will put the drives to sleep when it's not using them, but while performance will suffer, your drives will live longer healthier lives.
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Well, shit, there goes the neighborhood.
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