atw: Re: meltdowns, inspiration and motivation

Personally I am afraid I had difficulty sympathising with Steve's recent 
meltdown.  

I fail to understand how anyone could not have acquired a decent operational PC 
and lasted for 15 years as a technical writer.  

Yes hardware can fail, but if you don't buy bleeding edge hardware you can go 
for redundancy and buld yourself two close to current technology PCs for the 
price of one.   At today's prices you can get a pair of very good pre-dual 
processor desktops or one very decent dual processor laptop for around $1400.  
With two sets of identical hardware you can just swap over the hard drive if 
anything goes wrong on your main desktop and you are straight back to work.

Or you get yourself a name brand laptop with a gold service warranty and they 
come out and fix any problem at your desk within hours.  

Three computers might be excessive but I have been caught out with hardware 
problems once or twice myself and I have both the good laptop and the pair of 
dodgy desktops, which gives me reliability, redundancy and mobility. 

Its really not rocket science.

Enough said!

Damian Forlani-Brennan
Technical Writer

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