Generally speaking computers are fairly resilient when not powered up.
The disk drive heads park and are not on the platters.
So it takes a real hit to cause them harm.
With real abuse the cooling fans can sometimes fall off the CPU heat sinks.
But other than that I have found that if the box is
Whether you're boxing them or not, my advice is to use those plastic
shipping wrap. It looks like cling wrap for food, but much stronger and
thicker. It prevents scratches and holds stuff together. It reduces
the amount of padding needed, hence the number of boxes. Surprisingly,
you can
well...the blindness experience, at least for the moment, means driving,
is not an option for me.
Do still have boxes packed from several prior moves though.
Kare
On Tue, 8 Jun 2021, Mauro Souza via talk wrote:
I always put my computers on the car too, the tower got nicely put behind
the
Hi Karen,
On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 07:43:59PM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
[snip]
> First, what is the best sized box for a tower so that there is not too
> much room?
Much depends on who will be moving your stuff, and how they will be moving
it, which may depend on how far they are
I always put my computers on the car too, the tower got nicely put behind
the driver seat, and the monitor got on the backseat, with a seatbelt
around it. Put the screen on the seat, strap it with the seatbelt, and they
are good to go. You can put some pillows around them, but unless you drive
On 2021-06-07 7:43 p.m., Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
Hi folks,
One thing about the lockdown ending is that I must hunt a new
place..which means proper packing of my computers and monitors.
So two questions since I must order on line.
First, what is the best sized box for a tower so that
Hi folks,
One thing about the lockdown ending is that I must hunt a new place..which
means proper packing of my computers and monitors.
So two questions since I must order on line.
First, what is the best sized box for a tower so that there is not too
much room?
second, I have one older imac
