Really I don't know. I use them pretty hard I suppose I had to replace the keyboard in this notebook within 8 months but that was mostly because I tipped coffee into it. The hard drive of my last one died after two years and just before five years were up something failed in the video system and it won't boot up. I keep thinking I will buy it's twin off of Ebay and blend them into one working machine.
I am into my third computer at the hospital since 2000. The hard drives seem to die on those. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:40 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Cleaning my computer. Dale, What do you do to your computers to eat them up like that? *GRIN* I have one machine at home that has been running since 1999. It has 384 MB of RAM and a 650 MHz processor, and runs like a champ. I had to get pretty ruthless about making sure only the absolute essential services and programs start on boot, but for the basics, it runs no slower than my spiffy machine with two gigs of RAM, and a 3 GHz processor. Of course, it would definitely run slow on other tasks, but for basic email reading and web browsing, it does fine. It is now mostly just a file server on my network. Lenny, seven fans on a machine! That's impressive. Our big honking database servers here at the university don't have that many fans. Must sound like the space shuttle lifting off. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
