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How is it possible to be that stupid?!
> Note how it says "a laptop" and not "the laptop" -
> journalistic exaggeration.
That's just it, that entire article was based around a handful of mildly amusing anecdotes of the sort you find in droves every day on the internet. If anything needs laughing at, it's the author of that report.
:D
> Of course, hard-disk failure is entirely the users fault. Head
> crashes are caused by spyware and dialer software, am i rite guys?
> Guys???
You're joking right? Heh.
> Alternatively I think just sending the disk back to the manufacturer
> would be a better plan. Not that my Maxtor disks ever die.
If my Maxtor disk at work makes it through the next six months it'll be a minor miracle, given that it's too hot to touch for more than four or five seconds whilst running (my disks at home, on the other hand, are either stone-cold or lukewarm). One brand of hard disk is as fallible as the next.
> Ive never lost any work due to the computer going wrong, purely
> because i know how to use it...
> If people, like my mum, go clicking random things then they happen to
> make things go wrong.
Of course, hard-disk failure is entirely the users fault. Head crashes are caused by spyware and dialer software, am i rite guys? Guys???