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brandietarvin

Working in Trenches (#wit #technology)

Sep 16, 2015 18:26

I've know for a while that my travel laptop is dying. A few years ago, I had a heat problem. The bottom of the laptop kept heating up to sorching temperatures for no reason I could discern. So I installed some software, including a CPU temp monitor, and found out that my CPU was heating up beyond safe temps. The solution was to re-goo the heatsink ( Read more... )

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thewayne September 17 2015, 10:33:48 UTC

I've never been brave enough to take apart a laptop with the intent to repair it. I dropped off my Air had a rebuild the day the warranty expired, so that should be good for at least another couple of years. I've been planning on getting a new(ish) MacBook Pro to get back to 16 gig of memory and a larger HD, but I need to get a new car in a couple of months first ( ... )

brandietarvin September 17 2015, 21:51:54 UTC

What is it with everybody but me coming into nice hardware for "free"?

I think the tech gods hate me. @=)

Then again, my condolences to you for the loss that led to the inheritance. Forgive me for making light of it.

thewayne September 18 2015, 04:39:43 UTC

I have been lucky with tech. My wife bought me my first MacBook Pro, the Great Tree Incident of '12 got me my 27" iMac. I don't remember who paid for my Air ( ... )

thewayne September 18 2015, 04:44:16 UTC

And if you're interested and have an external monitor, I have an older MacBook Pro, circa 2009, with a Core 2 Duo IIRC that could be looking for a new home. The video is flakey, thus the need for a monitor. Sound is fried. 500 gig HD, 4 gig ram. I was going to give it to a friend but he went and bought a new MacBook recently.

I haven't used it in 3 years, but as far as I know it still works, I don't recall what version of os-x that it's running, probably 10.8

brandietarvin September 19 2015, 11:25:23 UTC

I have several external monitors and have been wondering about getting a MacBook at some point. If you're sure you're willing to part with it, I'd love it.

thewayne September 19 2015, 11:55:12 UTC

Email me your private email address through LJ or SSC. I'm in Denver right now for SQL Saturday and won't be home until Thursday (my next stop is a DB project launch meeting in Albuquerque on Wednesday), I'll charge and check out the laptop when I get home and we'll go from there.

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