I'm happy again

[K1W1]

I just brought my (warranty) replacement LCD monitor home and connected it to replace the old, very old 19" Diamondtron I have been using for the last week. For the two weeks before that my LCD though that dark red should be represented as fluro orange along with several other colour shifts.
Now I can go back and see what all the photos I have taken since Christmas actually look like. :D
I just thought that this seemed like a good excuse for a post. Maybe I should have put the word rumour in th heading. :D:D

[T06]

I've just got my tower back from the computer wiz after 3 wks, nice to see that my last effort was lost when th pc crashed, at least I can now see all.

[rawpaw18]

Gotta like warranties when they pay for themselves. My things go up
right after they expire, or I never purchase the extended ones.

[T06]

Yeah aint that right about the warranty, friggin crash & burn nowadays. Might go Apple next time, I'm sick of the microsoft blues.:confused:

[K1W1]

Might go Apple next time,

If you want after sales service that will be exactly the wrong route.
Apple are notorious for selling and forgetting.
The guy across the road has been trying to contact Apple Australia since nid December to get a faulty OS-X 10.5 Leopard DVD replaced. You did notice that I said "trying to contact" I didn't say "waiting for a response".

The warranty on Apple hardware is the worst in the industry.
My cheap Viewsonic monitor has a 3 year pick up and collect from site warranty and was replaced in less than 7 days from when I eventually contacted them. Apple give 12 months on the hardware and 90 days tech support only.

[Daubs]

No way am I ever going back to Apple/Mac. Grad school purchased ibook for wife and made her take it and pay for it (part of tuition...sneaky). It was a POS and always in for repairs. And don't get me started on itunes. Ick.

Got great advice from computer guru back in the day regarding Windows. He recommended bombing your HD every 3 years and doing a complete windows re-install. Of course, takes time to back up all your files, and get everything running right, but I rarely get the BSOD.

Keep good anti-virus running 24/7, turn on auto-windows-updates, should be fine.

Not a huge fan of ext warranties, but do have them on my vehicles and on my Dell notebook. My screen started running green line from top to bottom...Dell had tech come to my house and repair, covered under ext warranty. Tech said a new screen would have cost me $900. So that paid for itself.

[K1W1]

Got great advice from computer guru back in the day regarding Windows. He recommended bombing your HD every 3 years and doing a complete windows re-install. Of course, takes time to back up all your files, and get everything running right, but I rarely get the BSOD.

Old advice that one.
It was valid in the Windows 98 days (except you should have done the reinstall every 6 months not waited three years). Since XP has been released Windows really is a fairly stable product without most of the memory leaks or registry issues of earlier versions.