Back It Up

In Larry Hechler's talk, I could not believe the story about the girl that paid 5500 dollars just to find out her harddrive was not recoverable! "If you want to keep it, back it up" might be the best computer advice I have ever heard as I have all of my pictures and all of my papers and on the same computer and the idea of losing all of that terrifies me. I also did not know that cleaning a computer with alcohol or amonia would eventually ruin the LCD monitor. As I have a Dell PC and a Mac laptop, I very much appreciated that Larry discussed the pros and cons of PC's and Mac's in a blunt and honest manner. I was also very happy to learn about how helpful Dell is to their customers when accidents happen. I was glad to learn that you should run the battery all the way down before you charge it because I do that unintentionally anyway since I lose my charger so much!