Honestly, aside from myself and the location, there's nothing they had in common. Not even failure modes.
The Dell was dropped. Lumbered on for a few weeks before finally headcrashing.
The MSI was sitting on the desk when it made horrible noises then died. It got RMA'd as it was still young.
The Acer I borrowed after the MSI died just clicked off. Went completely inert. HDD is fine. I have it in the old Dell now with a quick Linux install.. Dells are tough.
All have spent time in the same backpack, and on the same workdesk, and same carseat on the way to work. Cloth carseats. But I haven't felt a static shock in months.
Only electronic device I have been carrying with me is a phone. Can't hear anything over the speakers except the usual noise mobile phones make when they handshake.
Then again my home speaker set has an odd shielding quick where they used to occasionally pick up what sounded like a number's station... if they were left on at certain times of the night. They haven't done that in a while though. (And that's no joke.)
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The Dell was dropped. Lumbered on for a few weeks before finally headcrashing.
The MSI was sitting on the desk when it made horrible noises then died. It got RMA'd as it was still young.
The Acer I borrowed after the MSI died just clicked off. Went completely inert. HDD is fine. I have it in the old Dell now with a quick Linux install.. Dells are tough.
All have spent time in the same backpack, and on the same workdesk, and same carseat on the way to work. Cloth carseats. But I haven't felt a static shock in months.
Only electronic device I have been carrying with me is a phone. Can't hear anything over the speakers except the usual noise mobile phones make when they handshake.
Then again my home speaker set has an odd shielding quick where they used to occasionally pick up what sounded like a number's station... if they were left on at certain times of the night. They haven't done that in a while though. (And that's no joke.)
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?