Disaster Strikes?

I knew my Dell XPS laptop was failing.  Sometimes it would just shut off –dead.  Sometimes it would burp and hiccup and throw up just a little bit. I was concerned enough that I started making backups to the external hard drive.

I mean face it, that laptop had been through some extremes.  Dust, humidity, lugging it all over hell and back in my Ogio backpack — life had not been kind.  It was beginning to look decrepit as well.  The paint gone off the palmrest, the mouse button  keys worn slick.   I was prepared though… or so I thought.

More later….