The Dell Mini9 is my hackintosh experiment (Apple OSX 10.5.8 on a Dell) so who knows what the problem is. If it's hardware, then I'm seriously disappointed in the build quality as I've had the little machine for a little over a year. Barely out of warranty. It has been an extremely reliable, excellent computer to take on trips. It has a 32GB SSD (Solid State Drive) and I noticed a real slowdown in performance lately. Maybe SSDs aren't quite ready for prime time. My replacement MBP was ordered with a SSD but also with Applecare i.e. a three year warranty. I've heard that there have been some significant improvements over the last couple of years. I will probably replace the 256GB SSD in the old MBP with an Intel 80GB SSD that is supposed to be much more reliable and do a fresh install of 10.6 as a spare computer. The battery is dying but it could be used as a desktop machine replacing an ageing G5 sitting behind the desk as my multicast streaming server.
My Beemershop order has finally arrived so I may try to do some of the minor repair items on the bike. These include rebuilding both of the fuel petcocks, replacing all of the fuel lines, changing the engine oil and filter. Maybe replace the second exhaust crossover.
Saturday evening - UPDATE After finishing this post, I thought about checking the Dell web site. I entered the service tag and discovered, to my surprise, that I still had six more days of warranty left. I quickly called the toll free number and there is now a new SSD on its way. It should be here by Tuesday. They also tried to get me to buy the extended warranty. According to the Dell Mini forums, the failure was probably caused by overheating.
Sunday afternoon - I stopped by my office to re-image my Mac (using SuperDuper!) and pick up the external optical drive and restore CD for the Dell Mini9. The re-image is proceeding slowly and hopefully will be one before my ride gets here. I tried doing a system restore on the Dell and can't get anywhere due to the hardware error so can't do anything until the replacement SSD gets here.
I also picked up my "spare" computer. It is a Getac W130 and is a "rugged" design kind of like a Panasonic Toughbook only a bit more reasonably priced. I originally got the machine as an experiment. We were looking for rugged computer options. This machine seems very durable and since its evaluation, I use it when going out of town when durability helps. I installed Windows 7 Professional
Richard:
ReplyDeleteso sorry for your electronic failures, but at least you know how to fix them
it just seems strange that everything failed at the same time, must be in the magnetic waves
bob
Wet Coast Scootin
Thank you for stopping by. I think it is amazing the way everything sort of failed at the same time. Especially the Dell SSD failure as that was completely unexpected. The Mac SSD seems to have problems as soon as I hit a certain amount of data on the drive so that was sort of expected. I guess that was one of the reasons I had ordered a replacement. The broadband outage was also new. I knew that they had server outages scheduled but they were fairly confident that it wouldn't affect any of their broadband customers.
ReplyDeleteI'll blame it on the weather. It was too nice of a weekend to spend playing around on the Internet...
Richard:
ReplyDeletewe had a great weekend. Our long Victoria Day weekend is coming up and forecast is for cloudy and rain or showers.
not so good for riding, but good for doing some video editing
If I have any computer problems, I'll just give it to you in Corvalis and expect overnight service (lol, just kidding)
bob
Wet Coast Scootin
Richard:
ReplyDeleteAs SonjaM does not know the local roads, I had to lead. My GoProHD is set up to film the front view, not the rear. That's why there is no "rolling" video this day.
If only we had bike radios . . .
Hope you are healing well
bob
Wet Coast Scootin