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[camrogers]

Ever since I was a kid technology has not dug me. Any major tech purchase NEVER worked out of the gate, we always got the one borked one in the store, or it lasted a week and died. Over the years I've managed to work with this disability but today... today, for the second time in the last six months, it pulled out the stops.

- The replacement 360 fried just as I prepared to sell it.
- My deskstation's RAM is slow-roasting, it rarely boots and it'll be dead by Monday. Also the DVD drive recognises zip.
- The laptop takes 15 minutes to remember where it is.

Got a little writing done, need to do more, job apps still waiting... argh. Day off has kinda frozen my joints. Sitting and staring has me by the fun bits. Gotta snap out of this.

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[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

With skills like that, you should work in QA...they need people with that erm, magic touch. :-P
Seriously, that's a lot of bad luck. :(

If it's any reassurance, I finally got my laptop looked-at this afternoon...and it could be a dead hard-disk (I think not, and getting the data recovered costs approx $1000), or the video-memory's friend (new motherboard/guts for goodness knows how much).

Do you still think the shop that sold you the FragBox (http://www.ibuypower.com/ IIRC?) gives good value/service/warranty? Just wondering, since I'm looking to buy a new desktop for animation and video/photo-editing...and, yes, this one will have RAID hard-disks so if one dies it won't lose any data. *sigh*

Looking on the bright side, the fruit shop a short walk away from my favourite cafe had cheap strawberries and perfectly ripe mangoes going for next to nix. :)

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

While the comp I got from ibuy has caused me problems over the last 12 months, the owner admits I shouldnt be having this much trouble and has been really decent about it. So I cant fault them for service. I think I would recommend AGAINST a FragBox setup though, simply because it's so compact it makes changing anything a friggin' nightmare. I'd never get one again.

Hopefully though, the compact size means I might be able to get it onto a plane as hand luggage.

PC Mag gave ibuy retailer of the year, which is why I checked them out.

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Fair call, and thanks for the honest assessment.
Looks like a tower with decent air-flow is the way to go...besides, if one component fails, it's modular so you can replace the part without a huge hassle.
Miniaturization, over-integration, and asphyxiation looks like it's not worth it for the FragBox, and is probably what did-in my laptop.