Computer Woes
Seems like everything decided to die at the same time.
The wife has been having problems navigating on websites with her laptop. Sites would open fine but either the links in the sites wouldn't work or, if they did, the back functions wouldn't work.
Mine would open webpages but most of them would give me a message of "done, but with errors on the page". Like her's, some functions in the ste would work, some wouldn't.
We have Norton Live tech assist service and had them go into both computers.
Mine they spent about 3 hours on at different times over 2 days and told me my Windows XP was corrupt and couldn't be repaired remotely. The recommended solution was to back up everything I wanted and have someone local clean the hard drive and then reload Windows.
Her laptop was originally Vista, upgraded to Windows 7. The problem with it is that the hard drive was starting to eat itself. Solution is to either replace the hard drive and start from scratch to install all her programs, or buy a new laptop. About the same $$$ either way.
Did a bit of quick research on line this morning and off we went.
She picked up a HP G7-1320us, 6 GB memory, 750 MB hard drive at Office Depot. Originally $699.99 marked down to $479.99 on clearance. The last one in driving distance (Austin to San Antonio) was the store display. Buying an open box item knocked off another 10%, and there is a $50 mail in rebate from HP. Office Depot also has a current promotioon for free data back up from the old to the new computer. Bottom line after taxes will be $417.55 for a $700 laptop.
I stayed with a desk top for mine. Went with an HP S5-1224 slim line unit with 6 GB memory and 1 TB hard drive for $476.29. No mark downs or rebates on it. Decided on the slim line CPU to save space. The only thing I am really losing is the second CD drive, but we have an external drive.
As the icing on the cake, my printer is on its last gasp. The copy function only works in color mode and it jams about 20% of the time. Cleaning the rollers is a temporary fix for the jams. I didn't replace it today but saw one we both liked. This is another area where we have always used HP. The one we looked at is an Epson Workforce WF-7510. It has a document feeder that we don't really need but what we liked was that it has an 11" x 17" scanner and 13" x 19" print capabillities. It also includes photosmart technology. Just want to do a little research on it first to see what user opinions / problems are out there.
AIN'T TECHNOLOGY WONDERFUL????
The wife has been having problems navigating on websites with her laptop. Sites would open fine but either the links in the sites wouldn't work or, if they did, the back functions wouldn't work.
Mine would open webpages but most of them would give me a message of "done, but with errors on the page". Like her's, some functions in the ste would work, some wouldn't.
We have Norton Live tech assist service and had them go into both computers.
Mine they spent about 3 hours on at different times over 2 days and told me my Windows XP was corrupt and couldn't be repaired remotely. The recommended solution was to back up everything I wanted and have someone local clean the hard drive and then reload Windows.
Her laptop was originally Vista, upgraded to Windows 7. The problem with it is that the hard drive was starting to eat itself. Solution is to either replace the hard drive and start from scratch to install all her programs, or buy a new laptop. About the same $$$ either way.
Did a bit of quick research on line this morning and off we went.
She picked up a HP G7-1320us, 6 GB memory, 750 MB hard drive at Office Depot. Originally $699.99 marked down to $479.99 on clearance. The last one in driving distance (Austin to San Antonio) was the store display. Buying an open box item knocked off another 10%, and there is a $50 mail in rebate from HP. Office Depot also has a current promotioon for free data back up from the old to the new computer. Bottom line after taxes will be $417.55 for a $700 laptop.
I stayed with a desk top for mine. Went with an HP S5-1224 slim line unit with 6 GB memory and 1 TB hard drive for $476.29. No mark downs or rebates on it. Decided on the slim line CPU to save space. The only thing I am really losing is the second CD drive, but we have an external drive.
As the icing on the cake, my printer is on its last gasp. The copy function only works in color mode and it jams about 20% of the time. Cleaning the rollers is a temporary fix for the jams. I didn't replace it today but saw one we both liked. This is another area where we have always used HP. The one we looked at is an Epson Workforce WF-7510. It has a document feeder that we don't really need but what we liked was that it has an 11" x 17" scanner and 13" x 19" print capabillities. It also includes photosmart technology. Just want to do a little research on it first to see what user opinions / problems are out there.
AIN'T TECHNOLOGY WONDERFUL????
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