My trusty laptop finally died after 7 years...
 

Sad, but true. My Toshiba laptop ground to a halt the other night - after seven years of 24/7.

I suspect it might be the motherboard.

Luckily I have the newer Acer laptop as backup, but sucks usin' Vista on it. :(

I have vista on a desktop at work, and it's really not that bad.

7 years is a long time for a laptop, they don't make 'em like that anymore.

sorry to hear, it's hard to give up on an old comfortable machine

install new windows 7... better than vista...

sorry to hear bad news, but 7 years are pretty long time for laptop
Im working on Windows 7..but I dont like new system..

Man 7 years and 24\7 thats a long time for LP!
He was working 110%!
Just buy new one and u can start punishing it allover again!

fuck I'm lucky if my laptops lasts more then a year :(

Why such a creative artist as yourself isn't using a Mac is beyond me.

pain in the ass

I am sorry for your loss, did you loose alot of work aswell?


Because its a mac, mac really aint the good imo

I know the feeling. I have an old Acer laptop with a 17" screen that I use when travelling. It must be some 6 - 7 years old now and still works ok apart from a few creaks here and there. Was a terrific workhorse.

I ended up taking Vista off my computers and am back to XP. Hated it.

I have to agree - 7 years was a long time, considering the use its had.

No, we didn't lose anything - thankfully (other than a few minor things that weren't really important). I keep everything backed up on two external western digital drives.

As for why I don't use a Mac - I've just always been a dyed-in-the-wool PC person. It's what I know, and it's what works for me. After nineteen years of using PCs I don't have the inclination to switch at this point in the game.

I'm on an Acer Aspire laptop for now - only has a few hours runtime on it. And the wife just bought a new Toshiba Satellite laptop a few days ago - she's hoping to have the same luck with it as my old Toshiba.

Ah well, I'll take the old one into the shop and see what the damage to the wallet is to have it fixed.

It had a long life...7 years is long for a lap top...

7 years on the same machine? i couldnt do it, I like a new machine every 6 months got a closet full of old computers (up to 8 i think now) lol

My wife thinks it committed suicide over jealousy of the new Toshiba she'd brought home. :1orglaugh

I suspect Bill Gates learned it was still running XP and nuked it remotely.

i usually give my laptops life cycles of about 3 years max then replace them... they get damn nearly dead in that time anyway

3 years was typical for me in the past with desktop systems.

At the moment we've got a total of six systems in the house and office (desktop and laptops combined).

Time for a garage sale. :1orglaugh

Wow! 7yrs that's long enough for a lappy.