My personal advice is to go ahead and buy. This is my first ever hard drive failure and although people get rude about Apple the consensus opinion is "hard drives fail - always back up".
I will certainly never go back to Windows and I'm seriously considering buying a new 27-inch iMac. The vital thing is to have backup and the Time Machine software that's part of the Mac OS sorts it with typical Mac efficiency. Since I write I've been copying my stuff (docs and software as needed from the backup to my wife's machine and it just works. Brian Sent from my iPhone On 27 Aug 2012, at 23:22, Eron Smith <e...@msn.com> wrote: > I was about to invest in one of them! Please tell me they normally last more > than 3 years & you're just unlucky!! £2,800 is a lot to pay for a 3 year > return! > > Eron > > Sent from my iPad > > On 27 Aug 2012, at 23:17, "Brian Smith" <br...@briansmithonline.com> wrote: > >> Aaaaargh! It's happened! >> >> My 3-year old 27-inch iMac has seriously died. And yes, I do have Time >> Machine backups (phew) so I'm able to restore essentials to my wife's >> still-working 21-inch iMac. >> >> I've done my Googling so I know about physical failure, PCB failure, and >> what the chances are (about zero). So the question is what should I do? >> >> As I see it I could: >> Take it to KCRS for repair, >> Buy a new HDD and do it myself, >> Buy a new iMac, >> Take the drive out and send it to an HDD-fixing place (such as >> PCBSolution.com in the US), >> All of the above, >> None of the above, >> Buy a PC (no, not that!) >> >> I would really appreciate any thoughts you may have and/or any help you can >> offer (happy to pay). >> >> Many thanks in anticipation, >> >> Brian >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> _______________________________________________ >> Peterboro mailing list >> Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk >> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
