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rich_jacko) wrote2014-02-28 07:29 pm
rich_jacko) wrote2014-02-28 07:29 pm
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I see dead PC
Gah! My computer appears to have suddenly died. (To be fair, it has served me pretty well for more than a decade and it was definitely getting slow in its old age.)
Can anyone recommend a decent, inexpensive laptop? I'm not fussed about playing games on it; I just want something that'll cope with the interwebs/Office/Photoshop/etc. With at least a 15" screen and a decent amount of disk space.
Also, I'm pretty sure (or hopeful, at least) that it's the motherboard that's gone rather than the hard drive. There's quite a bit of stuff on there I want to retrieve. What's the best way of doing so? Can you even connect desktop hard drives to a laptop?
Can anyone recommend a decent, inexpensive laptop? I'm not fussed about playing games on it; I just want something that'll cope with the interwebs/Office/Photoshop/etc. With at least a 15" screen and a decent amount of disk space.
Also, I'm pretty sure (or hopeful, at least) that it's the motherboard that's gone rather than the hard drive. There's quite a bit of stuff on there I want to retrieve. What's the best way of doing so? Can you even connect desktop hard drives to a laptop?
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But, if you decide on a laptop, it should have USB sockets, and depending on the type of hard drive you can either borrow a widget I have that plugs IDE into USB and powers old hard drive from plug socket, or buy something similar for £10-20 or so to get data off old hard drive and onto laptop (or even use old hard drive as an external backup drive, like I do - when I remember).