Re: [tlug] Used Shops - (After Otto)

[Lyle H Saxon <llletters@example.com>]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Edward Middleton
<edward.middleton@example.com> wrote:
> The one I got was used.  I guess I will see how it goes.  I didn't plan
> on using it while commuting so battery life wasn't an issue, but it
> seems to be in pretty good condition anyway.  I replaced the hard disk
> with a SSD[1] and it has been great sofare.
> 1. http://www.corsair.com/products/ssd_force/

Sounds like a good machine.  Actually, I had one used laptop in
particular that worked out really well, and some other ones that were
okay, but I also got a few bad ones, and developed a bit of an allergy
to used laptops from that experience....

And I have a very recent experience... I was lent a Dell laptop to use
for a 10-day video presentation (with the computer showing a 50-minute
video in loop mode for about ten hours a day):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPKNRWcAT0w
 - and it worked fine... until the very day that I gave it back to its
owner.  Just a couple of hours before meeting, I fired it up and was
deleting video files when the hard drive fried (I think - at this
point, there s no sign of life with the machine at all - no BIOS
screen, no "Dell" logo - nothing, and it eats power supplies.)

That SSD sounds good!  I have one in a desktop machine, but the way I
use it (not as the primary drive), it doesn't make much difference.

Lyle