For example, hinges break, especially if you lift a laptop by its screen, and power cables fray. Otherwise, many common problems are mechanical ones.
Motherboard batteries also tend to fail after five years. Of course, hard drives do become increasingly likely to fail after five to 10 years, but many fail within three years and no doubt some last more than a decade: there’s no easy way to tell. It’s already running Microsoft Windows 10 with 8GB of memory, so there’s no urgent need to upgrade or replace it. The Dell Studio 17 was a solid desktop replacement laptop with plenty of power but not much portability. Just in case this makes it into your column, can I state for the record I have no interest in Macs or Linux. Rebuilding these links would be very time consuming. This is especially important in ArcMap, where a map file may contain dozens of links to data spread over many different folders. I do have back-ups: I am more concerned with ease of transfer so that programs retain their settings and paths to data if possible. Should I be thinking of replacing the hard drive now? If so, would it be better to pay extra to go down the SSD route? However, if other components are likely to fail, would I be better off replacing the whole thing now?Įither route will obviously entail transferring a large amount of data crucial to my teaching and research. I have no problems with anything, but I am concerned about longevity and component failure. In my home office, I hook it up to a separate keyboard, mouse and monitor.Īs a part-time university lecturer, I run the usual software – Microsoft Office, Adobe Illustrator etc – plus some specialist software such as ArcMap, part of the ArcGIS suite. My main computer is a Dell Studio 17 laptop from 2010 (specification attached).
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