Should I Buy A New Laptop?

J

joueconn

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Hello All,

I have owned a Gateway T6836 laptop for 2 1/2 years. Last month, while I was on business overseas, my computer crashed and I had to replace my hard drive. The computer is now back to normal and running fine.

I am now back in the United States for one month, then I will move to Europe for one year. Should I buy new laptop before I return overseas? I have a new hard drive, but I am not sure if I can continue to trust and rely upon this computer for business.

If you install a new hard drive on your old computer, does that mean it can be expected to work perfectly for at least one more year?

Thanks in advance.

- Joe
 
Hard drives can go out at any time. There is no set time limit on them. It might last a few days, weeks, months or it could last 5 or more years. I've worked on old desktops that still had the original hard drive in them. I worked on one a few months ago that was running windows 98 with a 10 year old hard drive in it.
 
As long as the motherboard doesn't go, it should be fine. It's a brand new hard drive with at least a one year warranty on it, so it should be fine.
 
hdd it the only mechanical part left in modern day computers, so it is also the most vulnerable one, instead of getting a new laptop i would suggest you own an external hdd, it may seem odd, an hdd saving another hdd, huh....but it is unlikely that both of them get crashed at the same time, plus some external hdd have some great shields which provide stability, if you get the external hdd synchronize your data frequently and use some good antivirus application to keep it clean (avast free with malwarebytes free do a great job)...
you ask other thing i say other things,
plus dont worry about getting laptop, you can find notebooks in europe as well, with some price difference ofc, however next time move to vaio, asus, or ibm (lenovo) to stay free of hdd crashes (with no guarantee for how long)
 
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