Major decision point
Jun. 27th, 2005 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceagleWhy do these things always happen when money is tight?
You may have read about my macMiseries lately.. with the audio and now the video freeze problems. :<
I haven't been able to do much at all online the last few days, because even with the minimum ram and no airport, I'm still getting the system freezes consistently a few minutes after startup now... *sigh*
Thank goodness I was able to get this older backup machine last year from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yasha_taur ... *whew.. hugs thanksthanks*
But the dilemma is this:
I already went through the logic board recall in December last year, and Apple is telling me that the warranty on that is Only 3 Months... then it's $300 every time it breaks again... which could be Every 3 Months! ;P
I could get a whole NEW (used) laptop for that!
So now the question is:
a) pay $50 to bench-test to be absolutely sure it's the problem
b) skip that and just buy another machine, either a
c) used mac, or a
d) used windows machine
Whichever one, this will have a to a speed boost... probably to 800 or 900 minimum, since if I get a mac powerbook, I really want to get one of the last ones with the ability to boot in 9. (Any thoughts Yasha? email me?) :>
But even a used win machine would be okay.... though maybe I'm just thinking that right now because I'm so pissed at the moment with Apple only backing their hardware for 90 measly days...
grr!
You may have read about my macMiseries lately.. with the audio and now the video freeze problems. :<
I haven't been able to do much at all online the last few days, because even with the minimum ram and no airport, I'm still getting the system freezes consistently a few minutes after startup now... *sigh*
Thank goodness I was able to get this older backup machine last year from
yasha_taur ... *whew.. hugs thanksthanks*But the dilemma is this:
I already went through the logic board recall in December last year, and Apple is telling me that the warranty on that is Only 3 Months... then it's $300 every time it breaks again... which could be Every 3 Months! ;P
I could get a whole NEW (used) laptop for that!
So now the question is:
a) pay $50 to bench-test to be absolutely sure it's the problem
b) skip that and just buy another machine, either a
c) used mac, or a
d) used windows machine
Whichever one, this will have a to a speed boost... probably to 800 or 900 minimum, since if I get a mac powerbook, I really want to get one of the last ones with the ability to boot in 9. (Any thoughts Yasha? email me?) :>
But even a used win machine would be okay.... though maybe I'm just thinking that right now because I'm so pissed at the moment with Apple only backing their hardware for 90 measly days...
grr!
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Date: 2005-06-28 06:50 am (UTC)System Information report written at: 06/27/2005 11:29:32 PM
[System Summary]
Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name NS2
System Manufacturer Compaq
System Model Workstation AP200
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~597 Mhz
BIOS Version EPP runtime BIOS - Revision 3.0 Copyright(c) 1982, 1999 Compaq Computer Corporation - all rights reserved
Windows Directory C:\WINNT
System Directory C:\WINNT\system32
Boot Device \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1
Locale United States
User Name CASPEED\Administrator
Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 392,752 KB
Available Physical Memory 209,592 KB
Total Virtual Memory 1,335,836 KB
Available Virtual Memory 982,680 KB
Page File Space 943,084 KB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
I'd like to keep the SCSI card and drives (this used to be the HRF server) unless things are really tight. Buy an EIDE 80GB drive for a song and you're in business. I can load pre-load any OS from BSD, Linux, "whatever" if you want me to.
Maybe $30 to UPS???
CYa!
Mako
surely you jest....
Date: 2005-06-28 10:45 am (UTC)wooot! come on... really? If you seeeeeeriously think you won't be needing that workhorse ennymore... I'll be overjoyed to make it hapnin' heah!... perhaps my first Skype-compatible machine! ;D
Re: surely you jest....
Date: 2005-06-28 03:37 pm (UTC)You can get EIDE drive down there and build it or you can get a drive to me or whatever and I'll load it up.
The vid card is an ELSA - A German card that uses an Nvidia chip.
It's not the fastest box out there, but it'll run Skype just fine.
Call me after 7PM pal :)
CYa!
Mako