New Laptop
As I had mentioned, my laptop bricked this morning. Doesn't look like a hard drive failure, the boot never got that far -- looks motherboard level.
Picked up a new HP at Costco today -- cheaper than the three-year-old unit and twice the RAM (4GB) and a speedy dual-core Centrino processor. 500GB hard disk as opposed to the 300 in the old one.
I'll be removing the hard disk in the old unit and giving it away. Maybe there is a theatre group that can use a prop. I might just have some fun with Mr. Shotgun and two of our rifles...
My only gripe now is that I have to spend a couple hours re-loading Office 2003, ACAD14, all my photo and video utilities and getting updates for everything. I use Acronis backup software and have backups but I do not want to restore the old XP system so I need to do these one at a time...
And major props to
PC Decrapifier for automating the process.
Posted by DaveH at September 10, 2009 8:44 PM