BACK UP YOUR FILES. Can't stress this enough, I had my experience in high school, carried around a USB key.
NukeChem;41040 said:
I'm amazed at how expensive MacBooks are, I mean my god, $1200 :omg:
No thanks, I'll take Vista on a refurb laptop and add a gig of cheap $20 DDR2-667 RAM and be happy as a clam for less than $500 by the time all the taxes are factored in, heh. :P
LOL. Hell yeah. Laptops shipping with XP is pretty cheap too. As for brands, Dell, HP, Toshiba, Sony, and Apple are assembled within 200kms of each other. It doesn't really matter what you buy, just don't do anything stupid. For most of the shit people are doing, a $500-600 laptop is more than enough.
isn't the new all-aluminum shell a lot better in quality?
probably but given how ezy my iphone dents from small drops i can already assume its going to be shit... not to mention once u deform it, it dosnt fit right lol
I'm amazed at how expensive MacBooks are, I mean my god, $1200 :omg:
No thanks, I'll take Vista on a refurb laptop and add a gig of cheap $20 DDR2-667 RAM and be happy as a clam for less than $500 by the time all the taxes are factored in, heh. :P
I thought the same thing over a year and a half ago when I started researching getting a laptop.
I ended up getting the Macbook. Turns out that when you do a proper comparison, the price difference is not so bad, and even sometimes skewed the other way. For example, the MBs use series 7000 processors. These are not the same as the 2000 or 5000s often found in lower end machines. Start comparing with that feature alone, and you start finding some pretty pricey PCs.
Plus, you get to run OSX (which I prefer, having been a Unix geek for over 12 years) *and* Windows natively if you so desire. My alternative was to get a cheap PC and install a Unix OS on it. Unfortunately, driver support for laptop hardware is not as easy to find as for old desktop hardware, even with linux.
After lots of comparison, it turned out to be a no brainer for me to get the Apple. That being said, I have a few plastic pieces broken on it that should not have broken as easily as they have (my LCD screen bezel is a mess).
For me, however, it has been rock-stable running both OSX and Windows (the few times I did that).
ye yeah harddrive died last night at around 1:30am after spending entire day working on my project due Sunday night. i love my luck when it comes to this shit ahah
from the noise its making i think the head is stuck to the disks and isnt spinning up
edit: woot got it to spin up, but now the head is doing some shady shit and sounds like its clicking, i hope its not a controller issue :@
edit2: final resort took the cover off (yes im aware of dust..but i dont plan to put it back on)... there are scratches all along the top platter which means the head makes contact (big no no) upon closer inspection, the head is completely done. the shit that reads the disk is completely ripped off the bottom arm, and the top 2 are bent back. i imagine the clicking noise was the arm trying to move over the disk but it was hitting.
ye yeah harddrive died last night at around 1:30am after spending entire day working on my project due Sunday night. i love my luck when it comes to this shit ahah
from the noise its making i think the head is stuck to the disks and isnt spinning up
edit: woot got it to spin up, but now the head is doing some shady shit and sounds like its clicking, i hope its not a controller issue :@
edit2: final resort took the cover off (yes im aware of dust..but i dont plan to put it back on)... there are scratches all along the top platter which means the head makes contact (big no no) upon closer inspection, the head is completely done. the shit that reads the disk is completely ripped off the bottom arm, and the top 2 are bent back. i imagine the clicking noise was the arm trying to move over the disk but it was hitting.
OMG. Hope you can get your project back atleast?
I remember making this thread! I was a complete mess, haha.
nope no chance of recovery the head somehow made contact with the disk last night and pretty much ripped itself apart, in the process leaving its signature on the disks
even if i were to find an old dead 2.5hd (which i have somewhere around here) and even if the arm was identical (which i very much doubt it would be) and even if i could replace the entire arm, i doubt it would read the disks since they got scratched to shit by the old arm when it died
so back to sfu for me in a few hours and time to start again spent i think over 14h working on it yesterday, last backup i made to my ftp was around 6-8pm and the HD failed @ 1:30ish so i got a good 5h of work to redo...meh
edit: on the bright side i now have a good reason to install windows 7 :) lol
nope no chance of recovery the head somehow made contact with the disk last night and pretty much ripped itself apart, in the process leaving its signature on the disks
even if i were to find an old dead 2.5hd (which i have somewhere around here) and even if the arm was identical (which i very much doubt it would be) and even if i could replace the entire arm, i doubt it would read the disks since they got scratched to shit by the old arm when it died
so back to sfu for me in a few hours and time to start again spent i think over 14h working on it yesterday, last backup i made to my ftp was around 6-8pm and the HD failed @ 1:30ish so i got a good 5h of work to redo...meh
edit: on the bright side i now have a good reason to install windows 7 :) lol
haha no i actually loled last night i was working with my group and it just started making this noise as im like "hey im gonna back it up and send u the file" then im like "oh shit what was that? i think my HD went guys" my friend is like "well at least it played a song for u. "
im the kinda person that cracks jokes when bad things happen lol
its really unfortunate that sfu does not provide all cmpt classes with repositories
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For the love of god, stay away from Apple.
other then that their specs are meh...
the build quality of this thing is shit, my palmrest has cracked twice and now the little bezel thing is cracking now too
i had to buy a 200 apple care warranty so i could get these manufacturing defects fixed :| never buying apple again
I ended up getting the Macbook. Turns out that when you do a proper comparison, the price difference is not so bad, and even sometimes skewed the other way. For example, the MBs use series 7000 processors. These are not the same as the 2000 or 5000s often found in lower end machines. Start comparing with that feature alone, and you start finding some pretty pricey PCs.
Plus, you get to run OSX (which I prefer, having been a Unix geek for over 12 years) *and* Windows natively if you so desire. My alternative was to get a cheap PC and install a Unix OS on it. Unfortunately, driver support for laptop hardware is not as easy to find as for old desktop hardware, even with linux.
After lots of comparison, it turned out to be a no brainer for me to get the Apple. That being said, I have a few plastic pieces broken on it that should not have broken as easily as they have (my LCD screen bezel is a mess).
For me, however, it has been rock-stable running both OSX and Windows (the few times I did that).
Phil
never expereinced a kernel panic on my macbook pro. interesting.
Programming in Python, Surfing the internet, typing into stickies.
from the noise its making i think the head is stuck to the disks and isnt spinning up
edit: woot got it to spin up, but now the head is doing some shady shit and sounds like its clicking, i hope its not a controller issue :@
edit2: final resort took the cover off (yes im aware of dust..but i dont plan to put it back on)... there are scratches all along the top platter which means the head makes contact (big no no)
upon closer inspection, the head is completely done. the shit that reads the disk is completely ripped off the bottom arm, and the top 2 are bent back. i imagine the clicking noise was the arm trying to move over the disk but it was hitting.
I remember making this thread! I was a complete mess, haha.
the head somehow made contact with the disk last night and pretty much ripped itself apart, in the process leaving its signature on the disks
even if i were to find an old dead 2.5hd (which i have somewhere around here) and even if the arm was identical (which i very much doubt it would be) and even if i could replace the entire arm, i doubt it would read the disks since they got scratched to shit by the old arm when it died
so back to sfu for me in a few hours and time to start again
spent i think over 14h working on it yesterday, last backup i made to my ftp was around 6-8pm and the HD failed @ 1:30ish so i got a good 5h of work to redo...meh
edit: on the bright side i now have a good reason to install windows 7 :) lol
i was working with my group and it just started making this noise as im like
"hey im gonna back it up and send u the file"
then im like "oh shit what was that? i think my HD went guys"
my friend is like "well at least it played a song for u. "
im the kinda person that cracks jokes when bad things happen lol
its really unfortunate that sfu does not provide all cmpt classes with repositories