> It is good to see some action here on the > PowerComputing list. I would > post more but I don't have any problems with mine > and I am pretty hard > on it. Damn thing just keeps going....... > -- > Ron
Yeah I plan to give the PW the one or two major fix ups and then move on to the pismo, which because it's actually broken is going to get more attention* then the PW in the long run. Was a tough choice since I knew I couldn't do both projects at once finanically. The pismo is more worthwhile to upgrade but the PW is in use more. I decided ok, the pismo is the better computer to upgrade but I've already made the choice to fix them both up so I may as well do the one which is used more first. That said, I'm interested in learning about how computers work in general so maybe I can do future minor repairs on my computers. I am very concerned about old computer systems being thrown out, poluting (There's things in computers which polute water and stuff) and the energy needed to build new/more computers. I think people should appreciate the resources takes to build these things even if they can afford a new computer every year. I would like to encourage more fixing of older computers and using older computers in general for the tasks they can handle. This doesn't mean never buy a new computer, just more of a focus on repairing older computers so less new computers are purchased/manufactured when not neccesary. It saddens me that our ecomony focuses so heavily on just buy a new one and throw out the old thinking, as well as computer companies making it more economical to buy new equipment instead of repairing the old. I'd love to fix other computers if it prevented them from going to the dump but that's probably just the idealist in me speaking since I have never manged to fix anything on my own computers and hardly know the basics of how they work. *Beyond the scope of this mailing list maybe... My pismo got damaged while in storage once and has a cracked case and broken cd/dvd drive. The computer has been checked out by my brother is is in good working order besides this issue. After asking around, I found that replacing the bottom case replacment will solve the issue with the CD/DVD drive as well. It's ironic considering how careful I have always been using it but such is life and I am annoyied at my parents for taking the padded storage box which would have prevented this but that is life too. Plan A, I go get a new bottom case and replace it. Anyways, I started to look around and find out (thanks to the nice folks at the Apple support board for the PB fixit link) hey sticking a new bottom case on will be very complicated and may result in me (A not very experienced tinkerer of compys ruining the pismo.) Ok plan B, I asked Apple repairs and they were going to charge hundreds of dollars to replace the bottom panel (When you consider the actual computer inside is working just fine and all it really needs is a new bottom case). Yuck...Ok on to plan C. I ask my brother about getting his pismo repaired too due to a cracked case and he said he was unable to do the repair himself and sent it off to a place that repaired it for around $50 and it was upgraded to a 550 processor at the same time (not within the $50 fee I assume). OK more reasonable for this minor repair job but I don't like the idea of my pismo getting lost in the mail and possibly damaged more due to bad shipping. So on to plan D, get the upgrade items I want (definatly an airport card and recplacement bottom case) , and then bring the pismo to yet undecided computer shop for them to install new items and replace bottom case. 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