Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/26

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Subject: [Leica] Computer help!!!
From: spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng)
Date: Tue Jul 26 19:32:23 2005
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Tina,

Don't over estimate software cost. Your photos and lost time are much  
more valuable than a few thousand $. How much time will it cost to  
recreate the 200 GB photo repository? Can you afford to do it again.

At this point in time, it really sounds like to me that you have a  
lemon PC. Regardless how much Dell claimed to test (or not) it before  
it leaves the factory or the Geeksquad's poking around, I would be  
very surprised if they did that much burning in for a non-server  
component. Transient H/W or S/W errors are the worst nightmare for  
everyone involved. I won't share with you the horror stories about  
chasing transient bugs in S/W.

Buy another machine and start moving the data off the existing PC.  
You choice of Windows or Mac of course. I find Mac's are more  
reliable because Apple designed the H/W and the S/W together, not  
necessarily because the components in a Mac are of better quality  
than that what goes into a high end PC.

The probability of so many drives failing randomly together while in  
your possession is pretty remote. The likelihood of you getting hit  
by lightening is higher.

My $0.02 worth.

Regards,
Spencer

On Jul 26, 2005, at 18:53, Tina Manley wrote:

> At 06:38 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote:
>
>> Alas for her, Sobodan, her software costs are probably greater than
>> the hardware costs making the change awfully expensive.
>>
>> AB
>>
> Right.  I've investigating switching and, in spite of what  
> everybody says about how compatible the two systems are, the cost  
> to switch would be very prohibitive to me.  I just can't do it.  My  
> Nikon LS 5000 scanner, Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Breezebrowser and  
> almost every software program and hardware application that I use  
> would involve lots of expensive changes if I switched to Macs.  The  
> Geek Squad guy assured me that there is no reason to switch to a  
> Mac now.  He may have a vested interest in repairing PC's, but I  
> truly can't afford to switch now.
>

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