Her hard drive story is far from unique, my gf probably has set a
record in failed hard drives from Dell. Five of them in under three
weeks, and she wasn't even banging the laptop around. The first one
had magnetic corruption, second and third developed a stuck platter,
the fourth somehow managed to scrape the read head against the disk,
and the fifth one had a bad IDE connection. My experiences are similar
with Dell--I'm not sure where they buy their hard drives, but I'll
never buy one from them voluntarily.
On Nov 15, 2008, at 11:15, ben mustill-rose wrote:
Hay - i'll attempt to answer 1 and 2, the third answer will come
soon i'm sure.
1: 60 windows is a very big number and it sounds like your dell is
overheating. You didn't state what type of processer you had which
would dictate how well this would be handled but 1gb of ram isn't
anything great in the pc market today.
Whilst I have neverhad 60 windows open on my mac, I have never had it
lag due to multipal windows beeing open - ie: It has slowed some what
when doing a cpu intencive task which is understandable, but has never
slowed down due to me having say 6 / 10 windows open.
2: A replacement harddrive twice a year is not good - what are you
doing to it? Whilst it is a given that macs are more durable than pc's
meaning that the drive will be housed in a better caddie, you have to
remember that the drives aren't made by apple so if your notebook does
get bashed around as much as your dell does, no one can vouch for the
fact that it will be invinceable. One way of possibley preventing this
is buy purchasing a solid state drive which has no mooving parts in
it. This would end up quite expencive but at the end of the day, out
of everything inside a computer, the harddrive likes beeing moved
around least due to its mooving parts so in your situation perhaps it
would be wise.
Hth.
On 15/11/2008, Tasha Raella Chemel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi list, I'm thinking about possibly getting a mac, but I had a few
questions.
1. One of the biggest problems i have with my dell laptop is that
when I
have too many windows open (maybe sixty or so) the system will
start beeping
constantly, and the only way to stop the beeping is to restart. i
have a two
gig processor with one gig of ram. I know I probably should not
have this
many windows open, but as I'm sure you all know, it's easy to let the
windows pile up and forget to close them. My question: If i got a
mac with
high specs (maybe two or fourg gigs of memory) would it be better
about
having that many windows open?
2. Hard drive crashes: my dell laptop usually crashes about twice a
year,
and I need to get a new hard drive. granted, i'm a very heavy user
and I'm
sure the system gets banged around more than what's good for it. my
question
is, if I get a mac, are hard drive crashes less frequent? any
thoughts about
whether the pro is more durable than the macbook? (the new macbooks
also
have the aluminum casing)
3. Voices. I've heard a sample of the Alex voice, and am not
impressed. It
has the same weird emphases and prenunciations as a lot of the more
'human-sounding" tts's i've heard. are there other voices that
either come
on the mac or that i can buy separately that are comparable to
eloquence in
that they might sound robotic, but they are responsive and don't
have any
weird clicks/emphases? It's going to be very hard for me to give up
eloquence. even viavoice, which i know you can get for the mac,
doesn't
compare at all.
Thanks, Tasha
--
Kind regards, BEN.
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