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Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
5. I didn't mean just for liquid, thought the question was more general
Fri Nov 23, 2012, 10:24 AM
Nov 2012

Computers break, they get liquid spills, drives go bad, cpus smoke, gpus give up the ghost, the ethernet port burns out, the sound card quits, gets a bad virus, I've had all that and more personally. People also don't back up their data as they should.

In my particular situation trying to borrow or buy another computer is more "convoluted" than simply having a second cheap one of my own put aside for emergencies. I can literally be up and running in five minutes after the most disastrous computer malfunction.

So many things depend on situation, I was giving advice for someone who needs to be fairly self sufficient for whatever reason, a scenario I'm quite familiar with.






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