Laptop Died... Fix? or Replace?

[Iplayfarmer]

...ONE of my reasons for this is that I get next to no life out of bubble jet cartridges, they dry out from lack of use and I never know when I will be not printing for long periods, so have never tried any "lay up" procedures.
Supposedly laser printers don't suffer so much from lack of use.

We don't even use an inkjet anymore for the very reason that you mentioned... dried cartridges from lack of use. We have a black and white laser printer, and any color prints are done at work or taken to a print shop. It's surprising how little you need color when you don't have it at the house. It's also surprising how much paper you can go through when it's as fast to print 10 pages as it is to print one on an inkjet.

 

[Reg]

We don't even use an inkjet anymore for the very reason that you mentioned... dried cartridges from lack of use. We have a black and white laser printer, and any color prints are done at work or taken to a print shop. It's surprising how little you need color when you don't have it at the house. It's also surprising how much paper you can go through when it's as fast to print 10 pages as it is to print one on an inkjet.

Right now.... That doesn't surprise me at all (-:
It is surprising how LITTLE paper I go through with the background fear that I will have to get the rubbing alcohol from the bathroom medicine chest and spend 1/2 hour making ink stains all over the vanity.
EVERYONE absolutely NEEDS only THAT bathroom as soon as I start, even if I yell bathroom call warnings a minute before like we were on a road trip.

So part of the dilemma is that I get by with so little printing already because......
Yeah, OK - I need to argue this with myself in a private session (-:

and yes, the ink on toilet paper DOES leave stains in the toilet bowl.

 

[radioman]

I got everything I needed from the old hard drive. I still can't bring myself to sell it, though. I had a lot of personal information on that laptop. Even deleted stuff isn't really deleted.

Just take hard drive out and smack it on your basement floor till you hear it makes noise like a baby rattle.

Then sell laptop as is, no hard drive.

 

[aczlan]

Just take hard drive out and smack it on your basement floor till you hear it makes noise like a baby rattle.
Then sell laptop as is, no hard drive.

If you want to really make sure, do that then use it for target pratice.

Aaron Z

 

[Iplayfarmer]

i have the hard drive stored in the cupboard next to all of the other hard drives I've ever used. The only reason I'd make a huge effort to scrub it is to sell it.

 

[sodamo]

Hey, next week you can get your iPad2 :thumbsup:

 

[IslandTractor]

Hey, next week you can get your iPad2 :thumbsup:

Yup and they have both white and black colors. I'm waiting for the orange version myself.

 

[Iplayfarmer]

Hey, next week you can get your iPad2 :thumbsup:

I saw that. Of course, being the cheap skate that I am, I was tempted by the $100 off all 1st Gen Ipads.