Thread: How long does your laptop usually last ? What killed your past ones ?

Originally Posted by baldrick

you have a C and D drive

I assume it is one physical drive, partitioned. Never needed to look.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Windows update is usually monthly and if you don't apply the updates

Yes, I have only put the Updater to sleep for a couple of weeks to see if that helps, which I think it does. There seems to be no way to actually stop it for more than 35 days. The point is that it seems to use resources even when it is not updating, which is MS at its most helpful.
I have to be sure to check that the updater wakes up or manual update - at a time that suits me rather than MS.
I've disabled that SuperFetch thing too. That is another waste of space, at least for me.

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

My previous Acer lasted 5 years and would have lasted another 5 if it was not for it's unfortunate sudden deceleration against the wall opposite to me during a moment of unwise emotional reaction.
but I fell much better now, Thank you very much

So satisfying! Well, it is for a few minutes anyway until you realise you need the damn thing to get your work done.

I once did the same to a keyboard and then spent most of the night putting all the keys back in place.

Originally Posted by Troy

So satisfying! Well, it is for a few minutes anyway until you realise you need the damn thing to get your work done.

I once did the same to a keyboard and then spent most of the night putting all the keys back in place.

I left a Compaq laptop in the back of a car in the sandpit once.

By the time I remembered it looked like Salvador Dali's watch.

Amazingly it still worked though.

Originally Posted by pickel

You are by far the dumbest motherfucker on TD. What makes it even more laughable is that you think you're the smartest.

Yeah. Because I didn't know some poorly worded computer nerd lingo , makes me tge dumbest motherfucker ? Ok .whatever

BIOS (basic input/output system) is the program a computer's microprocessor uses to start the computer system after it is powered on. It also manages data flow between the computer's operating system (OS) and attached devices, such as the hard disk, video adapter, keyboard, mouse and printer.

Originally Posted by Backspin

Yeah. Because I didn't know some poorly worded computer nerd lingo , makes me tge dumbest motherfucker ? Ok .whatever

Written by a moronic obnoxious twat. Perfect form as well.

Originally Posted by Backspin

BIOS (basic input/output system) is the program a computer's microprocessor uses to start the computer system after it is powered on. It also manages data flow between the computer's operating system (OS) and attached devices, such as the hard disk, video adapter, keyboard, mouse and printer.

You forgot this.
What is BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)? - WhatIs.com

https://whatis.techtarget.com › definition › BIOS-basic-inp...





















Abo

Originally Posted by Backspin

BIOS (basic input/output system) is the program a computer's microprocessor uses to start the computer system after it is powered on.

Thank you for clearing that up for us.
Maybe we need an 'Acronym of the Day' thread.
How about ASCII? Or NATO?

Originally Posted by Backspin

Yeah. Because I didn't know some poorly worded computer nerd lingo , makes me tge dumbest motherfucker ? Ok .whatever

Oh, there's more reasons than that.

ASCII - A silly Canadian idiot interrupt

NATO - Not another thread overrun



I'll get my coat.

Offtopic ... unless all 200,000 people there do not know what BIOS is either?

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

It really was satisfying for a minute until , I realized that there goes my discretionary spending
unfortunately All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Acer together again LOL

Seriously though. I had many laptops, and so far , for my computing needs , I have found Acer to provide excellent service. .
After the unfortunate demise of my previous Acer Aspire5 I went out an bought another Aspire 5.
Though this one has a bit more RAM and a SSD hard drive.
I can not believe the difference the SSD drive makes.

That's commitment. Smashing the living fuck out of your personal computer.

I got close to punching the screen as hard as I could but somehow didn't follow through

Originally Posted by Backspin

I got close to punching the screen as hard as I could but somehow didn't follow through

Originally Posted by Backspin

I got close to punching the screen as hard as I could but somehow didn't follow through

Because you were afraid the bios would hit back

Is it weird if my Laptop is 19 years old because i bought it in 2003 at fortune town and bought it when i first wrote my blog and became an corbis contributor? Mine is a 2003 IBM ThinkPad and it is my first and only laptop and never broke.

Originally Posted by Arman Ahmedi

Is it weird if my Laptop is 19 years old because i bought it in 2003 at fortune town and bought it when i first wrote my blog and became an corbis contributor? Mine is a 2003 IBM ThinkPad and it is my first and only laptop and never broke.

crazy. got any pics of it

I gave the cursor pad a hammer fist because something wasn't working right. The screen started blinking and getting snowy. I thought that was it. but it restarted

I've still got the laptop that SZS was created on. The screen is dead, but the innards are still working great. I used it up till last year when pixels started dying.

Originally Posted by Topper

I've still got the laptop that SZS was created on. The screen is dead, but the innards are still working great. I used it up till last year when pixels started dying.

Haha. I still cant believe how unfortunate the timing was with SZ and DD. You would have been the undisputed Thai Visa alternative.

Timing is everything in life.

Ah. I forgot about this refurbished Dell computer I bought exclusively for darknet usage. I got a couple years out of it before the thing died. I got a computer guy to look at it. He said its hopelessly fucked.

Havn't even thrown it out yet till now. Byebye you underwhelming piece of shit.

The 2015 era Acer has a new issue. The #3 key doesn't work on the top line or the side. Plus some other keys don't work. God dammit.

They say to uninstall keyboard drivers. Where the Christ are the keyboard drivers

i ran 4 different diagnostics for the keyboard . no dice. i am typing this out with the screen keyboard .

time for a new laptop i guess. i lwas thiking of getting this. i need lightup keys

You will be just fine.

When and if you grow up into real adulthood.

Pathetic isn't it. Have you ever come across anyone so needy?