[cocobolo95]

So Detroit how do you know partitions can destroy your hard drive. Lets have the story.

 

[xDetroitMetalx]

Well.... I had the older Leopard Mac OS and I wanted to play Diablo3 which needed Snow Leopard or better, but they only have physical copies of Snow Leopard which would take a few days to get in the mail. So I went to commandeer a copy of Snow Leopard... But then you needed to put it on a DVDR, but I live in the middle of nowhere and the closest store that would have that is an hour away and I want to waste the gas. So another way was to partition the HD and load it that way. So I went to partition the required memory and my HD died! So then I had to drive to town anyway to have a Mac/PC repair store install a new HD / OS for me. The guy at the store didn't even know you could partition a Mac HD on the macOS, lol.

So, due to my impatience and lack of research prior to Diablo3 I ended up buying the Collectors Edition of Diablo3 for $100 and the new HD / OS load up / Labor cost me $350. So $450 for a game that I later learned wasn't really complete, a gateway back into WoW (which I will never play again), and has no end game... Awesome!

Oh yea, I also left my portable HD with my design back up files and Adobe CS software in Michigan and my parents can't find it... AWESOME!

 

[cocobolo95]

Guess I'll stick with my new old $20 pc bought from thrift shop. My last $15 pc died on me about 10 days ago so I went out and bought a brand new bottom of the line e-machine at Walmart. It had 4 gigs of ram, 500 gig hd, but right out of the box it would loose the internet connection every time I put it to sleep. I know it was just a bottom of the line model, but I still expected it to function well from the start. I'm on and off the computer, probably 20 times a day. After speaking to the tech support in bumf**k India, people who English is a 2nd language, and have such heavy accents that you can't understand them. It's frustrating talking to customer service that hires people off the street. I'm by no means a computer expert, but when I know more about the machine then tech support does, we're all in trouble. Anyway I took the computer back and got my $20 compaq. It's old and slow, but I got it full to the brim with 1.5 gig memory. It gets on the internet every time, so I guess I can live with that. And win xp runs all my old programs just fine.

 

[xDetroitMetalx]

I really need to build my own PC some day.

 

[avoctane]

build it, it's easy! or just buy a mac and dont worry about viruses & spyware! just a crashing hd, so always back up! :thumbsup:

 

[lababy78ta]

I'm proud to say my cheap compaq desktop computer from Walmart lasted 6 years lol it would get a virus n not work for several days then next week be working perfectly find R.I.P. Compaq she was a true warrior

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