When you say 'dying', do you mean the hardware itself physically fails? Have you tried wiping the HD and reinstalling Windows (from scratch)?
The 'mobile workstation' HP business class laptops have a 3 year warranty (parts, labor, & on-site NBD service) on everything save the battery (1 year). My NW8440 is >5 years old, has been used 8-10 hours a day, 5+ days/week non-stop during that time, and is still running fine.
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On 4/20/2012 10:42 AM, oldspunky wrote:
For the past 5 or 6 years the laptops I use for program development have been dying (about 1 a year). I have tried Toshiba, Lenovo, HP, and Panasonic Toughbooks. So this time I tried a Mac Powerbook (with VMware Fusion and Windows 7. Now the Mac is getting clunky too.
I am probably overloading them, but when I have several copies of Simpl Windows, Vtpro-e, Autocad, xpanel, Toolbox, and probably a Clearone or Biamp configuration file (and perhaps Photoshop) all open at the same time the laptops get pretty hot. Unfortunately I usually need all those things when working on a program or bringing up a system.
I do a lot of my programming on the road so using a desktop is probably not an option.
I have been using Radioshack fans and they seem to help, but my Mac is still getting hot enough to fry eggs or my hands. Any ideas? Or should I just accept this and budget a new laptop (and software) every year or so.?
Thanks,
Paul
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