My household has 5 computers. 2 of which are running MS Windows and the others Mac OS and Ubuntu.  As a person in the computer engineering field, I’d like to surround myself with a little “variety.“  Each platform have their advantages over the other.  Don’t you agree?!

My laptop, a Dell Inspiron 6000, just decided to quit on me.  grrrr! Well I wouldn’t blame the laptop. It’s the hard drive.  It’s better to be preventive than reactive, but in this case… hard drives do tend to go bad after a few years.  I had this computer for almost 5 years already and it did serve its purpose.  Dell had a pretty cool diagnostic system that looks for problems and errors and it pointed directly to the problem.  The picture on the left is my attempt to recover my disk using the good old CHKDSK aka Check disk.  I also plan to put it on an enclosure and retrieve my data.  Since, your files are always never far away from really being “gone.“  Dell was also nice enough to replace my hard drive which arrived in a day! I almost forgot that I purchased a warranty up the wazooo.  Thank God for warranties, they are worth it…sometimes.  I am really happy with Dell’s service/support.  I would recommend a Dell computer to any individual who wants to get a PC.  As for Apple versus Microsoft… that would be a different blog entry as I love my Mac as well.

As for now, I reinstalled the OS, Apps, and the good stuff back into my Dell Laptop.  I don’t see a point in upgrading it yet.  A computer with 2.0 Ghz CPU, 2GB Ram, and 128MB Video can still kick ass in today’s computing world.  Technology is rapidly increasing, but the need to follow it hasn’t seen my door steps yet.  (unless you play games..which is one of my iPhone’s purpose, i’ll need more free time on my hands if I try anything else)

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