Itinerant Air-Cooled

drober23 wrote: Open the old laptop up (lottalittlescrews) and keep going until you can get the hard drive from it. If you are extra nervous, you can take it to a place like Best Buy and have the guys there confirm that is is indeed a SATA drive.

Like this?


I have only an IDE external hard drive bay with me. Will pick up a SATA somewhere around here.
I am blown away that this Pavilion M7 has a 9 hour battery. For the past six years, I have only been able to enjoy approximately 20 minutes of battery power.
Colin

Amskeptic wrote: Computer went vdoof! no more charge light, soldered motherboard again . . . and again, until 4:30AM this morning, no. It is done. It is done.

Bummer. So I guess we should have just gone kayaking after all?

Ah well, next time.

hippiewannabe wrote: I guess we should have just gone kayaking after all?
Ah well, next time.

Yep. We sure should have.
I am known for seizing onto old dying mechanical objects like a terrier and dragging them through a couple more lifetimes than they expect or warrant.
Colin

So will you be holding a memorial service for the dearly departed once the organ harvest is complete?

Tim

satchmo wrote:So will you be holding a memorial service for the dearly departed once the organ harvest is complete?

Tim

Well, that is the thing, life is for the living. When the Road Warrior was killed, I said good-bye the very next morning and It Was Done. That old Compaq and I had a good run too, but once it refuses to participate, I must move along. Now this new computer doesn't know what's coming, and I do not know if it has any stamina but we're in it together for as long as it wakes up. So far, it is pretty nifty . . .

No way can current tablets compete with the utility of a laptop. Just thinking through a myriad of typical tasks (cut, paste, spreadsheets, typing anything longer than two sentences, drag & drop, etc.) makes me cringe. You're very limited by only having a touchscreen as an input device.

If you're all about browsing the web, watching movies, and composing short emails, then I get it. If you do more than that, even occasionally, I don't see much competition.

Did you get your data from the hard drive of the Presario?

Glad to see you and the new laptop getting along!

drober23 wrote:Did you get your data from the hard drive of the Presario?

Glad to see you and the new laptop getting along!

Every byte of it.
Colin