What Are You Doing RIGHT NOW? Part ELEVEN: Through the Wormhole...

[firedoom666]

I want to punch my fist through a wall in frustration right now

whats going on?

[Witticus]

I want to punch my fist through a wall in frustration right now

No you don't, then you'd be mad there's a hole in your wall. Go dig a hole, find a cute girl or something.

[MagicMurderBag7]

There's cute girls buried in Osaga's yard?

[SheSaidSheSaid]

Is replacing the hard drive in a laptop a relatively simple thing to do?

I'm awaiting my income tax refund check (the one day a year I'm glad to live in the USA) and I know what I want to spend it on -- a new computer. It won't replace the machine I'm using right now as my main computer (at least not right away), but I want to use it for video editing.

Video takes up a lot of disc space, especially when it's of un-assy quality. So I want to get a computer with a very very large hard drive, but those that I've found in my 8 seconds of online browsing are all quite expensive indeed (a little bit to a fair bit to quite a bit more than the amount I'll be getting back).

So I'm wondering if I could conceivably buy something cheap like this and swap some of the guts around. Would I be best off having a repair shop do that? They're pretty spendy, too, so it might not be worth it in the end.

I'm also going to be in the market for video cameras, but that'll probably have to wait a little while.

[SheSaidSheSaid]

There's cute girls buried in Osaga's yard?

Reminds me of

(Kickass movie)

[Munnchy]

Is replacing the hard drive in a laptop a relatively simple thing to do?

I'm awaiting my income tax refund check (the one day a year I'm glad to live in the USA) and I know what I want to spend it on -- a new computer. It won't replace the machine I'm using right now as my main computer (at least not right away), but I want to use it for video editing.

Video takes up a lot of disc space, especially when it's of un-assy quality. So I want to get a computer with a very very large hard drive, but those that I've found in my 8 seconds of online browsing are all quite expensive indeed (a little bit to a fair bit to quite a bit more than the amount I'll be getting back).

So I'm wondering if I could conceivably buy something cheap like this and swap some of the guts around. Would I be best off having a repair shop do that? They're pretty spendy, too, so it might not be worth it in the end.

I'm also going to be in the market for video cameras, but that'll probably have to wait a little while.

Ryan should be able to tell you about the hard drive. I'm not so sure.

As for video cameras, grab a dslr if you can. They're very expensive, but give you fantastic picture quality. Look up the canon 550D and take it from there

[firedoom666]

Is replacing the hard drive in a laptop a relatively simple thing to do?

I'm awaiting my income tax refund check (the one day a year I'm glad to live in the USA) and I know what I want to spend it on -- a new computer. It won't replace the machine I'm using right now as my main computer (at least not right away), but I want to use it for video editing.

Video takes up a lot of disc space, especially when it's of un-assy quality. So I want to get a computer with a very very large hard drive, but those that I've found in my 8 seconds of online browsing are all quite expensive indeed (a little bit to a fair bit to quite a bit more than the amount I'll be getting back).

So I'm wondering if I could conceivably buy something cheap like this and swap some of the guts around. Would I be best off having a repair shop do that? They're pretty spendy, too, so it might not be worth it in the end.

I'm also going to be in the market for video cameras, but that'll probably have to wait a little while.

do you have any expedience messing with the inside of a computer? if the answer yes you can probably do it

I think it is that hard to swap hard drives in a laptop (netbook might be annoying though)... but you might need to search online to find out the proper way to access the hard drive...

when I was working I had to pull the hardrive from laptops and it was simple... but sometimes you have to work to get to them... with one of the laptops, I had to remove 4 panels and the keyboard just to get to the harddrive

[SheSaidSheSaid]

As for video cameras, grab a dslr if you can. They're very expensive

Yeah, that's kinda the problem. It doesn't really do me any good to just have one. Or even two. I need at least three to shoot a movie. Which means I need a computer with a staggeringly large hard drive.

do you have any expedience messing with the inside of a computer?

No. The closest I've come is taking apart my RB guitars and putting them back together. When I wanted a bigger hard drive for my PS3, I actually bought an entirely new console altogether and sold the old one (only wound up costing me about 50 bucks total to double my HDD space, so it wasn't half-bad).

I was thinking along the lines of following a how-to guide. I'd be leery even then.

[MagicMurderBag7]

Can't you just get an external hard drive? The one I have is 1 TB and it was like $70 when I got it 2 or so years ago.

[OsagaRockHero]

There's cute girls buried in Osaga's yard?

Dammit! No one was supposed to know about that!