Back in the saddle again

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80NoPLp-Zl0 It was an interesting, very short vacation. My six-year-old dropped my beloved XPS-15 just before we left.
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And thanks to you for keeping the site going…with a phone no less.

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Fyi, SSDs are very less prone than HDDs to failure from a laptop being dropped bc there r no mechanical parts in SSDs.
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Fyi, u can restore a stored/backed-up Win 7 System Image to a new internal-drive on the same cptr.

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🙂

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Sorry to hear about the mishap…… but apart from that hope your trip was a good one! Welcome back LT

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“I had neither the time, the inclination nor the patience to buy a new machine.”

You mean you don’t get free computers? 😉

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I vaguely recall back in the 90s as a final stage of R+D testing a phone company would run the ‘5 year old test’, meaning they’d give their product to a 5 year old for a couple of hours, and if it survived it was fit for market. An apocryphal story certainly, but I can’t see it being done today.

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Ay yay yay yay yay…

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I second Lizzytish’s comments – sorry to hear about your computer but hope you had a great vacation. I’m sure your son feels bad about dropping your beloved XPS-15.

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At least your six-year-old didn’t do this…

https://www.cnet.com/news/child-uses-sleeping-moms-fingerprints-to-buy-pokemon-gifts/

Haven’t checked the story on snopes.com yet…

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I’m not 100% sure he hasn’t… 🙂

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Any consolation my Dell Ispiron 5000 with a SSD drive isnt so great either. It fell about 2 feet and stopped working. Decided rather than send it to Dell i figure try and fix it myself. Have to say not so impressed with Dell anymore. Thought they performed a decent drop test for models? Rechecked all connections but never found anything conclusive that caused the problem. Its randomly turned off twice since.

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This was a hard drop onto a hard floor. I love the machine, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3at_Ev2kOoI

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