We then bought it to the Geek Squad in Best Buy store at Owings Mills. I guess the technician noticed it was already old when we told him it is already more than 5 years old, lol! Besides, this was the second time it was bought there for repair and so he suggested us to get a new one. We agreed because the repair costs can already be as good as a price of a brand new laptop! Anyway, we still opted to continue with the repair and decided to only use it for Craig's powerpoint files whenever he needs to make some for his class presentations.
We call this laptop "Paul Charles", you know, all of our computers at home have names! For 8 long years, "Paul Charles" has been good to me. He was so far the busiest pc in my office room, the reason why I didn't give up with the repair on him.
The Geeks found out that his hard drive was badly damaged and needed to be changed. Gosh! the repair was $160 plus $90 hard drive! It should still be worth it and I promised myself this would be his last repair and I would just let him retire!
So, yesterday, Craig picked him up and gladly revived from a coma! He has a newly installed hard drive. Today, I was able to re-install back the Kaspersky anti-virus on him and a Microsoft Office so Craig can use it for his files.
On the other hand, I got a new pc...HP Pavilion dv7, the fastest, and has the biggest space capacity for files, and has a "beats audio" sound quality. I will give a specific update about her in one of my next posts.