Larry Hechler was a very interesting guy. I learned several things that will help me in future maintenance and purchases of computers. Number one is that from this point on I will be very careful to not mess up anything on my Mac. The fact that only apple keyboards will work on Macs, and that you have to buy the whole assembly to replace the touchpad, basically means that you're at the mercy of Apple if either of those should become damaged. Also, I did not know that you could not clean computers with alcohol, ammonia, or bleach. I figured before that it is probably not a good idea to clean an expensive machine with harsh chemicals, but did not know that, say, bleach causes them to basically melt. Good to know. So, I'll probably look into Techspray. However, the most important thing would probably be to backup everything all the time. I'm off the network a lot, so I have an external hard drive, but I do not back up as often as I probably should. Since hearing Mr. Hechler I've been backing up every day, especially since I have end-of-the-semester essays that I definitely do not want to lose. And as I'm thinking about doing a thesis in English, the whole computer/pool/thesis story scared the crap out of me. From now on, I'll have anything as important as a thesis backed up either on an external hard drive, a flash drive, a CD-RW, the Y drive, or all of the above. I probably need to cycle my battery more often also.
Regarding future purchases, I did not know that you can basically put any hard drive into a computer or buy more ram after you purchased it. I might take those points into consideration later on in purchasing a computer, as it could save me quite a bit of money, I would think.
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