The home PC desktop went haywire 2 night ago. I worried and suspected the master harddisk went dead. I spent the entire afternoon yesterday just to be able to confirm the harddisk was indeed dead. It was so dead, when I change it to a slave drive with another master system drive installed, the computer would not even boot-up. I had to take the dead drive out of the computer completely. I don’t think I have anything on it that was important to me since M and Alec has been using it since I’d switched to my Powerbook about 7 months ago and I think I had all my data on a separate disk. However, M may have all her recent work lost in that drive. She said so be it, and rather enjoy a nice break from her clerical work for Alec’s school Table-Tennis Club.
Went to check out some PC systems. Market component PCs are about HKD$3500. I have also checked out Dell’s, HP’s, and IBM’s on the net. Dell seems to have the best deal. HP tries to low ball the price with lesser CPUs, and IBM just have utterly crazy and stupid pricing on extra RAM. IBM/Lenovo has got to be the biggest markup pricing of all Chinese made products. They want HKD$2,929.00 for an extra 1GB of RAM! That’s like HKD$550 more than Apple chages for their extra 1GB RAM for an iMac!
I ended up buying a new 80GB harddisk for HKD$455 and see if I could reinstall the entire system first and hopefully save at least 3 grand for now.
Wish me luck.
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