Parting of the ways!

[Sleepy]

a good tome to order a new hard drive for a windows computer is at the same time you buy the computer.... Mac all the way. From pressing the ON key my Mac is booted and ready to go in 7 seconds - every time, A PC might be fast when you buy it, but as soon as you start loading it with programs and rubbish it slows down - and then stops, i used to be sceptical until i bought a mac, its a breath of fresh air, while you are all swapping bit's, adding hard drives, rebooting and frantically pressing F5 or F7 or whatever, the Mac is on line, no virus issues, no virus or malware software installed either. Basically, with a Mac if you want to delete a program drag and drop in the bin, with a PC.... select programs, select add / remove program, select remove, then it tells you that you delete this, that won't work etc etc because all the programs are intertwined, then the dreaded blue screen..... Get a Mac, and with all the time you save not feckin about with the PC you can get out on the bike...

What a load of Bollocks..!

 

[stolzy]

What a load of Bollocks..!

Strikes me as being spot on.

 

[Gonzo]

As a recent convert to mac I do have to say that I'm becoming a convert.....but not a bore!

Having said that, there's nothing wrong with Windows.....we still use it on 2 laptops and a desktop needed by my wife to work from home. Windows 8 appears to be stable.

Aside from the need to replace your hard drive if its failing (and I can offer no help on that) a good FREE option for backing up all of your stuff would be something like Google Drive. Just download Drive to your PC (and any other PC, phone, device, Mac, iPad etc) set yourself up a Google account (with a gmail address - you don't have to use it for email) and set up a folder structure within Google drive on your hard disk. Every time you save a document, picture, video etc it automatically replicated in the cloud for viewing or downloading anywhere else.

Really simple and you get a decent amount for free. I think I pay $5 a year for about 250gb, far more than I need.

 

[jetjock]

What a load of Bollocks..!

Really . ???

 

[jetjock]

Macs are for people who don't know how to think for themselves and just want to feel secure because they paid too much money for a machine they can barely change themselves.

That has got to go down as the one of the most ridiculous statements ever !!

 

[Davey B]

Hilarious thread.

 

[davegs]

Many thanks for all the asistance I'm sujre now I shall hesitate before it goes out the window!, for all the Mac lovers out there I shouild point out this is NOT a Windows problem but computer malfunction I'm sure Macs also have probs occasionally. Any way very many thanks for all the advice.

 

[jetjock]

I'm sure Macs also have probs occasionally. .

How very dare you !!!

 

[Myke Rocks]

I'm sure Macs also have probs occasionally. .

It's not the Macs that have the problems:
Some Mac owners may have to think about this for an hour or two to understand the innuendo.
Myke

 

[jetjock]

It's not the Macs that have the problems:
Some Mac owners may have to think about this for an hour or two to understand the innuendo.
Myke

The great thing about a mac is you don't need to rebuild it every 3 years . It just fuckin works !

 

[Micky]

The great thing about a mac is you don't need to rebuild it every 3 years . It just fuckin works !

Yup, in one

The time I've had the iMac I would have probably had three PC's and/or spent a lot of time pissing around with them!! In the long term they're as cheap as chips

I had a hard drive problem .... ooooer no I didn't. It must have been two years old when I received an email from Apple that my hard drive was in a batch that MIGHT have a problem. They renewed it free of charge ... so no problem.
I can't see a PC manufacturer sending an email out re possible future trouble ... they'd wait until you approached them when it failed, and at two years tell you to feck right off

 

[davegs]

Well, till today it's had no probs at all but now we are back to square one. If I get an external hard drive how do I load stuff from the PC onto it?,
I amit to being a computer plonker so any assistance apriciated.

 

[Deleted account 190117001]

If you have more than 250 Gig of data don't bother with a USB hard drive unless it's USB3 and you have USB3 ports available, It'll take an age to transfer everything over on USB2. If you don't have much data ( below 150Gig) crack on with the USB2 drive.

You can buy one from anywhere these days.
Tesco
Asda
Dabs
Maplin
Scan.

It'll come with basic instructions even a numpty could follow.

EDIT !

My personal advice would be to take the computer to a local recommended computer repair shop and get them to fit a new 1 Terabyte storage drive and a small 200Gig SSD to run the operating system on.

This would be money well spent In my opinion obviously.

 

[(RIP) Tunneruk]

Agreed

Macs are for people who don't know how to think for themselves and just want to feel secure because they paid too much money for a machine they can barely change themselves.

PCs are infinitely upgradeable, cheaper and you can swap parts in and out at will, should you so desire.

Dave, as above, just go out and buy a new hard drive

That's the point though Bill, I'm not interested in fecking about with a computer, changing it, tweaking it. I have enough to do 'with' it without doing stuff 'to' it

Sent from a 2009 Macbook which is as quick as the day I bought it (with the help of a little extra ram) and has never crashed, had a VIRUS or any hardware problems. It was £930 when I bought it, It takes to my other iMac, my phone, my iPad and my television seamlessly. I've had it about 6 years which equates to £155 per year and falling - Absolute bargain

 

[Walowiz]

+1 for Lenovo

used to change my laptop every couple of years...
my Lenovo Thinkpad T410 is now 4 years old and still going strong...
not the most sexy design but tough - survived a lot of abuse, and is fully repairable.

you can actually buy refurbed T410 really cheaply - may need a new battery - but will carry on for years.

Try the new hard drive first - you can always put it in a caddy and use as your external drive.

I know you've stated that you don't want to buy a new puter, but I've had HP's through work and once as a personal purchase for my wife and each and every fcuking one of them has been a PITA. The thinkpads though, still all going strong...

The t4xx range are underwhelming understated bullet proof laptops, which I can't recommend enough. I've now got a S540 which has been superb. These workhorse thinkpads are built well and can be serviced, repaired easily at home. IMHO A better budget laptop purchase would be hard to find.