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IceCream Closed Account

Registered: 2009-05-08 Posts: 3124

my computer finally gave out yesterday. Everyone back up your cards!!!!!!!! Do it now!!!
-2000 cards . Luckily, a good chunk of them i know so well now i won't forget.

Anyway, so, i need to get a new computer. But, my knowledge of computers kind of sucks. I need something really cheep (around or less than £300). What should i look for? Are there any cheep brands to seriously avoid? Should i be going for the amount of space, or something else?
I don't need to do much, but being able to download stuff, watch stuff, etc would be great...

Hope you can help, i'm a bit lost... tyty

Last edited by IceCream (2011 February 15, 2:58 pm)

Jarvik7 Member

From: 名古屋 Registered: 2007-03-05 Posts: 3946

You should have been syncing to anki online, even if you don't review online.
In any case, just because your computer will no longer turn on doesn't mean the data is gone, or even that your computer is dead. Usually a non-booting computer just means that Windows ate itself.

Last edited by Jarvik7 (2009 August 11, 2:29 am)

jmignot Member

From: France Registered: 2006-03-03 Posts: 205

It may be possible to plug your hard disk into another machine and recover the data.

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bombpersons Member

From: UK Registered: 2008-10-08 Posts: 907 Website

You mean, you weren't syncing online or using dropbox??

ghinzdra Member

From: japan Registered: 2008-01-07 Posts: 499

Right now I cannot but agree with jmignot : try to recover the hard disk.... This kind of s... happened me once and for a minimal fee I just had the hard disk changed into a external hard drive

For the future as jarvik said you have anki online.... Even better you can use dropbox which allows you to store up to 2gb for free with a permanent synchronisation. Actually it s complementary as you can use both at the same time which will provide you a double safety . I triple it with a save on external hard disk.

blackmacros Member

From: Australia Registered: 2009-04-14 Posts: 763

Yeah I have mine synced via dropbox, via anki online and also a copy of my deck on my iPhone via AnkiMini. If something fails I've got 3 backup locations, and its not likely to be too much of a problem.

Evil_Dragon Member

From: Germany Registered: 2008-08-21 Posts: 683

2000? That hurts. You should buy two (you heard me!) external harddrives now and start to backup your files!

nac_est Member

From: Italy Registered: 2006-12-12 Posts: 617 Website

The fact that the "computer gave out" doesn't mean that your hard disk is necessarily the victim. It may be any other part. You should first verify that before falling into despair. Don't give up hope!

Lyulf Member

Registered: 2009-01-19 Posts: 43

Does your father know how to put computers together? If he does than you could build a nice cheap computer for yourself. It would be a very solid machine. Buying all the parts and putting a computer together will save you a ton of money. Plus your computer would be able to play games(if you are into that stuff). 400 dollars/euros etc... for a new PC and you could get something like 3.0 GHZ processor, 4GB of Ram, 640 GB HDD and a nice 512MB graphics card

Last edited by Lyulf (2009 August 15, 11:53 pm)

sup3rbon Member

From: northeast USA Registered: 2009-06-27 Posts: 71

Whatever you end up getting, I would recommend getting an external harddrive. They're relatively cheap in terms of how much space you get, and they're really useful for setting up to automatically backup things. Also, all that extra space just means more space for japanese media haha.

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