Rebuilding the laptop...

[sheldor]

Have a dell 1720 laptop - hard drive starting to fail so stopped by MicroCenter.  They had a 500gb drive for $54 or double that space for another $5  :Bow:   Also have 2TB drives (desktop) for $79  :jawdrop.  Time consuming part will be re-installing and transferring all the old files but way less than getting a new 17-inch laptop.   Also replacing the keyboard.  All-in-all about $75 to double the current system and have something usable again.  :metallica:

[Rico]

If you can hook the drive up externally you can clone the old drive to the new.  Or just do a full, piece by piece reinstall.

[davekill]

On the Mac side there is a free Hard drive cloner called SuperDuper.

[Bromptonboy]

It is just amazing how storage costs have come down.  I remember my first 20MB HD in a Tandy 1000sx - I thought I could NEVER generate that many characters and use up the hard drive...

[Ktrek]

It is just amazing how storage costs have come down.  I remember my first 20MB HD in a Tandy 1000sx - I thought I could NEVER generate that many characters and use up the hard drive...

Oh yeah! The Tandy 1000 series! I managed stores for Radio Shack back in the day when the Tandy's came out. I owned several and loved them. I used to own a TRS 80 color computer. Used to love trying to write software for it and connecting to old BBS systems to connect with other Star Trek fans. Brings back memories!

[Bromptonboy]

I felt so proud when I upgraded my RAM from 256K to 512K.  Those were the days.

[X]

Yeah, I'm not going to date myself by talking about the hours spent on bbses playing TradeWars. While I played with PCs starting with a used IBM 588, the first home PC that was bought was the Mac SE. And after that I started building my own PCs. It was on the Mac that I was on BBSes most of the day. Then Compuserve, then AOL

[Bromptonboy]

Paging SYSOP...

[ricdude]

This was my first "minimally multiplayer online" (MMO) game: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scepter_of_Goth . 48k of ram and a 1 MHz, 8 bit CPU. Classic.

[Bromptonboy]

Ah, memories!

[sheldor]

It is just amazing how storage costs have come down.  I remember my first 20MB HD in a Tandy 1000sx - I thought I could NEVER generate that many characters and use up the hard drive...

Back in the ancient days  (early 1990') the company needed a 4gb drive.  it cost $9000

[Bromptonboy]

I remember we all crowded around the first 1GB drive!  Very exciting.

[davekill]

After all those Zip discs, Behold the 1GB iomega Jazz drive.

[Bromptonboy]

I really hit the big time when I bought my first 486/33MHz machine.  I couldn't believe it - and I didnt have to ad a math coprocessor to it..it was already on the chip!  :)

[sheldor]

First "PC" - commodore VIC20 - a whopping 3.5k memory.  I think it was $300 and for a time I didn't have the tape recorder.  Ugggh - wrote yahtzee about 3 times.