On Tue, December 18, 2012 7:07 am, Raymond Horton wrote:
last night my 6-year-old PC gives out
a loud POP and quits immediately.
Sounds like the power supply. If the fan went off, or it has a secondary power
switch on the back (which would turn on the fan) and it's quiet in either
position,
On Tue, December 18, 2012 8:53 am, Raymond Horton wrote:
Do you think the Toshiba laptop described would make a good second PC,
capable of running Finale and Garritan?
Can't help you there -- I seriously dislike laptops for scoring, and don't use
them for any serious work. I have the big laptop
Ray,
Our family owns two Toshiba laptops. I bought an 875 as an early present to
myself--4 CPUs and 8 gb of ram.
Son has an earlier version (forget the number). Both are well-made workhorses
at reasonable prices at best buy.
On the down side, the hard drive in my new 875 spins at only 5400 rpm,
My one away from home gig was with a dance company. i had written the
bulk of the work at home but had to do some rewrites on the road and
the weak laptop made it difficult. I wished many times I had packed
up my whole system in the car.
Right now I am typing on my wife's mini computer, which
