Starting over with a new Hewlett Packard

[knitwits1975]

Hello folks. I have good news and bad news to share. I just got myself a new computer this weekend and it's really cool. It is an HP Pavilion a1257c that I got from Costco. It's got a lot a lot of really cool stuff like a Memory stick port, so I'll be able to send you a lot more photos. That's the good news. The bad news is that it's predecessor (also an HP) gave up the ghost and I lost most of the photos and videos that I downloaded off this site. I've really enjoyed them and will re-download as many as I can find. But I am pretty much starting over. So I sincerely hope that you all will keep the good stuff coming. Thanks in advance.

 

[knitwits1975]

New DSL Router too.

 

[tolivac]

I used to have a HP Laptop-It died --the same problem twice-the display driver.I won't buy another.I hope your second HP computer works better.

 

[knitwits1975]

Mine was actually a great computer but it was over five years old. Probably just old age.

 

[DADoES]

I have a home-brew 133Mhz dual-processor at the night job that's 8 years old and running strong. Changed one of the hard drives (it has two) several years ago. And the DAT drive. Everything else is original. Oh, and the monitor, but that doesn't really count. I'm using it at this moment, it says Howdy to all, LOL.

 

[hoover1060]

Dell

I have a 2000 model Dell Dimension that barfed right before new years and became unusable. I was able to recover pictures and documents, but as of today it is still not usable. With help I cleaned off the hard drive and installed windows xp, it boots fine but thats about it... missing drivers or something.
So for the time being I am on my Dell Laptop that I bought last year. It works well.
I'd totally buy Dell again, they last and have few problems

 

[petek]

I'm using an old generic hand me down from my partners office which keeps giving me no end of troubles. I'm so leery about going out again and spending more money on a pc, course they're not that expensive anymore, but still. I've never used a Mac but have heard they're more reliable. Would that be a better choice, I am NOT into gaming whatsoever. Just want something that works well for internet and emailing, can play a CD etc and doesn't need constant babying. I suppose if and when my area finally gets DSL or I sign up for satellite internet I might need something good enough for streaming videos, all of which I can't do now. Any mac fans here?

 

[retroguy]

computers, computers....

I prefer building computers to buying them. I also refurbish old ones that I get from random places just to pass the time. Then I give them to people who dont have one. I dont prefer mac over PC. PC's are more mainstream, so they are cheaper, and even cheaper than that to build. Macs tend to be more secure than PC's if you dont know what you're doing. If you do, either one is as good as the other. My current system is a ASUS/AMD combo. AMD processors can kick an Intel to the curb in my opinion. All computers can be fun though. Did I mention I like retro computers too? =)

 

[jasonl]

Data Recovery

I'm going to send my crashed HD (FILLED with washer and coaster pictures, videos, family pictures, and all the music and songs I wrote) to a data recovery place. Very expensive but if I get my stuff back it will be worth it.

 

[chad_hauris]

Linux

Linux can make a really messed up old PC look up again. I have gotten some where there was windows 98 on them and they would not boot up at all. Installed Slackware linux and they are working great. Almost everything you can do on Windows, you can do on Linux.