My laptop is coming to its end. I've had trouble over the years, but lately it has gotten fatal. A couple weeks ago while working, the dreaded blue screen appeared telling me of a fatal error. I tried to shutdown and immediatelly restart which has worked in the past, this time it didn't. My hard drive was corrupted. I did backup a lot of the hard drive so it didn't hurt too much. What hurt me was I didn't get around to backing up my rails Trading Journal project I've been hacking. OUCH! I will also miss all my bookmarks of websites I discovered. I hope to discover them again. I got my laptop up and running a week later and was off to work again with a fresh start. A few days later my screen became choppy then went black. Silver has been in a coma since. I don't have a backup computer so I've been borrowing others to continue with my trading. I have not been able to do any hacking. It is time to get a new computer and a backup.
Before I roll out and buy a new laptop, I would like to know what happened to Silver and how long it will be before my new computers are affected and can I prevent it. My laptop was old which probably led to overworked and run down components. I must have caught a virus or two and been overrun with spyware. I have read that many lock-ups and blue-screens-of-death can be traced to insufficient power supplies, low quality RAM, and the like. Does that mean old components cannot handle new applications that continue to come out? Will I need a better Motherboard or Processor or whatever every year? So, if I have lock down security, update drivers and increase everything my computer should live forever.
My focus now is what kind of user am I. My computer is mostly for trading and software engineering. I search the web and watch online videos and shows. I also run multilpe applications at the same time. So what computer is best for me? What's the minimum? Do I want a Mac or PC? I am not familiar with the Mac. The PC doesn't offer XP anymore and I would have to switch to Vista. From what I checked, they both work with the software I download and use.
I'm probably over thinking it. I assume most computers these days bought off the shelf will contain everything I need. Now, I just gotta figure out what it is I need. Wish me luck!
