I hear you Carmen, not sure yet if its the monitor or the graphics card that needs replacing but something is causing it to keep going blank on meThanks. Now if only my damn investments will stop dropping for a while so I can save up enough to buy another darn computer to play with all my new stuff!![]()
Better not be the blasted HD! Screen or card I can probably replace but not a HDohhhh be careful Dreamer it might be a Hard Drive going, that's what happened to me (and why I don't have poser at the moment, because my DS HD is full so I can't load Psr on it and can't afford another HD)
I've completed the mastiff today.
Nah. Its my GPU. Turns out the damn laptops apple produced 10 year ago now(damn where has time gone?!) were defective, the whole lot number and there were never any produced to replace them so when they go bad and they have been going bad for different people at different times through out the history of the card/laptop, it became a useless effort replacing them. mine lasted over 8 years before the problem reared its ugly head (a problem that got worse for the next short period until it was useless). By that time it was declared a 'Vintage" model and therefore Apple felt it would no longer support it. O lucky me. The pain in the arse is all the apps I had invested in (Poser MS WORD, and the whole Adobe Suite my family gifted me then) that ran on it is now useless to me because of the upgrade (forced obsolescence) functions of the OS and hardware combo.ohhhh be careful Dreamer it might be a Hard Drive going, that's what happened to me (and why I don't have poser at the moment, because my DS HD is full so I can't load Psr on it and can't afford another HD)
GO SSD drive much safer from all I hear and read. I bought an external at Costco and it works nice. Because of all the trouble i have had and ALL the Darn work I have lost for poor backup strategy I try to gt n external big enough t back up whatever i have in the computer and I was directed to many articles that vaunted the value of SSD druves over HD's.Better not be the blasted HD! Screen or card I can probably replace but not a HD
So much better than my effort... and so much closer to finished too, of course! Looking forward to this (and to the Greyhound, but then, as a Whippet owner, I'm biased on the sighthound front).
Yeah but I have used both platforms professionally and I have always sworn on Macs. Been a mac user since 1993 with my first Mac iici and I never looked back. But the cost is way higher and the issues of obsolescence sucks. If you computer holds up and my old Mac IIci lasted 13 years and died only bcause the motherboard got fried after countless power brownouts and blackouts finally did it in. Generally the alernatives I was using professionally then just did NOT hold up for long. I don't think Macs (or ANYTHINg for that matter!) holds up any more.Apple is the worst about planned obsolescence. My fiancee's macbook pro had to be updated in order to continue using XCode, he was trying to develop iOS apps at the time, and the update made the computer so slow it was unusable and there was no way to roll it back. I was given two iPads to "fix" by different people, each had started a mandatory iOS update that locked up the tablet completely with no way to cancel, rollback, or reset. Also, no support from Apple--because they were one generation behind. Definitely no more Apple products for me, I can't keep up with that treadmill. I still use my five year old Android phone, eight year old windows laptop and twelve year old windows desktop, sure, they're old and one of them is running Linux, but I can fix them when they break, and they still work! And, I can totally still use some embarrassingly old software, my OS doesn't pat me on the head and tell me "you don't want to run that old software on this machine, do you? Of course not, just buy some new software!" LOL
SSDs are great, but they're expensive. :-S I have my OS on a small SSD and use big, cheap HDDs for data storage.
Not sure here but it seems the screen or card would be more expensive to replace than a HD. I got mine at Costco fairly cheap and you can get externals (HD or SSD) fairly inexpensively (compared for what they used to go for!. Several years ag I invested in an external set of cable conectors (not a housing) that you can hook up several drives and configurations on an as needed basis. One connector kit can be used for many drive types. A real good investment.Better not be the blasted HD! Screen or card I can probably replace but not a HD
Yeah but I have used both platforms professionally and I have always sworn on Macs. Been a mac user since 1993 with my first Mac iici and I never looked back. But the cost is way higher and the issues of obsolescence sucks. If you computer holds up and my old Mac IIci lasted 13 years and died only bcause the motherboard got fried after countless power brownouts and blackouts finally did it in. Generally the alernatives I was using professionally then just did NOT hold up for long. I don't think Macs (or ANYTHINg for that matter!) holds up any more.![]()
HD and card would cost about the same after having a quick look but then there is the having to get everything onto the new HD, not fun. New secondhand screen will cost a bit more than either but would be the easiest given age of computer lol.Not sure here but it seems the screen or card would be more expensive to replace than a HD. I got mine at Costco fairly cheap and you can get externals (HD or SSD) fairly inexpensively (compared for what they used to go for!. Several years ag I invested in an external set of cable conectors (not a housing) that you can hook up several drives and configurations on an as needed basis. One connector kit can be used for many drive types. A real good investment.
A source for drives I have used for a lng time Otherworld Computing here in the states. The people there are informed and helpful and thy have quite a large assortment of accessories (though not sure if that embraces all platorms).