Re: How long do XP laptops last?

(Mark Shapiro) wrote in news:1j7o3ca.1l8nrxc1fx22sN%
:

> Why do hard drives die
> so fast on Windows laptops?
> Or is my experience rare?
>
>

Must be you. There's an antique Gateway laptop laying on my bed that's
been a DivX player and wifi TV for over 10 years. The drive rarely stops
when it's booted because the movie's on there. I never lost a drive. It's
only casualty was when I was in a bad mood and the damned DVD burner popped
out for no reason once too often, prompting me to grab it and rip it out of
its hole...solving that popping out problem for good. All the movies are
on my wifi network drives, so I never used the stupid DVD burner, anyways.
There's another cooling hole where the DVD burner used to be, now...(c;]

The drive is the cheapest thing Gateway could get, I'm sure. It works
fine, boots WinXPSP3 up from hibernation for years.....

Maybe if we quadrupled the Win laptop's price to match the Macbook it would
fix it.....yecch.

--
Larry

Somewhere on teh intarwebs Larry wrote:
> (Mark Shapiro) wrote in
> news:1j7o3ca.1l8nrxc1fx22sN% :
>
>> Why do hard drives die
>> so fast on Windows laptops?
>> Or is my experience rare?
>>
>>
>
> Must be you. There's an antique Gateway laptop laying on my bed
> that's been a DivX player and wifi TV for over 10 years. The drive
> rarely stops when it's booted because the movie's on there. I never
> lost a drive. It's only casualty was when I was in a bad mood and
> the damned DVD burner popped out for no reason once too often,
> prompting me to grab it and rip it out of its hole...solving that
> popping out problem for good.

[snip]

Note to self; If Larry visits slip some Valium into his coffee.....
--
Shaun.

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's
warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.