New Computer is Back Home Again

The new HP laptop that replaced my sick Toshiba developed interesting streaks down the screen. It went in to the same repair place that did the warranty work on the Toshiba. They are a great group to work with. HP had wanted me to send back the computer and wait a week until they fixed it and sent it back. A week without the computer would drive me completely around the bend. I get twitchy when I'm without it for a day.

This morning I retrieved the HP. The Toshiba is still there. It has died completely and killed another hard drive. It may be that the first hard drive took something else with it when it died. Fortunately, I did have a fairly recent backup. I'll post more about backups and using other people's servers for data storage later. Let me say that I'm really grateful for GMail and Google Documents.

Oh yes, the HP now has two little red pixels at the top of the screen. HP requires 9 pixels to be bad before they will replace the display. So this computer will go back to the shop eventually. I do miss the corporate IT shops where there are lots of computers of the same model. You take the users hard drive and put it in a new machine. Then you can send back the bad components and not have a loss of the use of the machine. However, that's about all I miss about working.