What does a blogger do when her laptop crashes? Well freak out of course. I’m pretty sure I lost everything and though there are a few files on there I really wish I had, none would be worth paying a lot of money to recover. Mostly it’s just a bummer.
The laptop was mine, and it is where I did all of my blogging. It took me an entire day to get set up on our PC so that I had what I needed. It’s been a mad two days of looking at laptops online and in stores…with five kids. Mad doesn’t even begin to describe it!
We purchased one, brought it home and then realized it didn’t have a CD Rom drive. What no DVD player? I thought they all had one, but actually with more and more people going the direction of digital download they are not putting the CD Rom drive in laptops. Well I know now. But I want a CD Rom drive so we took it back.
After shopping around some more, the guy at Best Buy just about lost his eyeballs when he asked about my operating system and I told him I had Vista on my laptop. “Oh well then any laptop here will be much better that what you were using!” I guess that’s…good? So we’re still trying to decide and may just go with the cheapest one, because I probably would like it just fine! Decisions decisions.
So as a word of caution, if you’ve been thinking that if you backed up your hard drive then it would probably crash, take it from me. It’ll crash anyway! 🙂
Online backups! 🙂 We have automatic backups on our computers that go to an online server, so if our computers crash or we were to lose them for some reason, we would still have all of our documents, pictures, everything. It backs up regularly, during the nighttime hours when we’re sleeping. There are several options out there, if you’re interested I could ask my IT guru hubby for some recommendations.
Oh, no! Just like the Best Buy guy, I think you will fall in love with a new laptop, though! I have a Gateway, which was fairly inexpensive, and I love it!
I love my HP Envy dv6. It wasn’t overly expensive. Yes, your right about backing up your computer. It’s just as important as backing up our blogs is. I’ve had my share of computers crash on me through the years. We literally have computers on standby in this house because we live on the Internet due to homeschooling, college online, and now my blogging adventures.
I, too, was shocked about the fact that some laptops don’t come with a CD drive now as well. I almost made the same mistake you did.
Good luck on your hunt. For me it’s fun to computer shop, but I’m also a huge tech junkie.
So sorry to hear about your computer “woes”, Esther!
Hoping you get things remedied soon….
Oh my gosh Esther! A few years back I crashed my computer (not a laptop) because I had too many pictures and video on it. I was sooo worried and upset that I may have lost them all but no, we know a guy that can do computers for a decent price and he recovered them all in a few hours time. However, he scolded me and had me get an external hard drive for everything.
Then a virus crept in when we couldn’t afford the renewal the next year. We had a few days in between pay day and it had been a really trying four to five months with money needing to be spent everywhere it seemed. I was thankful for my external drive. The computer crashed hard from that virus but our computer guy/friend was able to come to the rescue, but it took a few days. I feel for you, because I understand how you feel.
Oh and my computer operates on XP sooo… we’re a bit “behind” too!
PS
Our computer guy recommends no Windows 8 operating system. Apparently it “doesn’t play well with others” (programs).
I really need to look into online back ups because as much as I need to back up my files once in a while I NEVER do it. 🙂 Thanks so much for all of your input. I discussed all of your advice with my husband as we tried to decide what to do. Finally purchased one last night. I need to take it out of the box and figure out how it works! 🙂