Laptop in a pannier - is it too much vibration?
01-25-14, 05:32 AM
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my rMBP was roughly €900 when i bought it in store.
seems to be only getting better ... i think i need a quick stop in Tokyo while I'm in China this summer:
one also doesn't have to pay the 5% VAT if the device is leaving the country (with valid foreign passport).
I guess this was before reduced the prices ... it was roughly €1500 in Germany when I bought it last year!
my rMBP was roughly €900 when i bought it in store.
seems to be only getting better ... i think i need a quick stop in Tokyo while I'm in China this summer:
one also doesn't have to pay the 5% VAT if the device is leaving the country (with valid foreign passport).
I guess this was before reduced the prices ... it was roughly €1500 in Germany when I bought it last year!
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01-25-14, 10:59 AM
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Whatever laptop, whatever backpack, whatever panniers, whatever the route conditions...
YOU NEED BACKUPS!
BACKUP THAT HARD DRIVE! It *WILL* fail at some point, no matter how good care you take of the machine. Back it up at least once a week CONSISTENTLY; more often if you churn out a lot of work.
YOU NEED BACKUPS!
BACKUP THAT HARD DRIVE! It *WILL* fail at some point, no matter how good care you take of the machine. Back it up at least once a week CONSISTENTLY; more often if you churn out a lot of work.
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Macbooks in specific since I believe 2010, and almost all other recent models of laptop, use onboard accelerometers to determine if the chassis is moving sufficiently to cause potential head crashes, and alert the drive to unload the heads to prevent that from happening, at sub-second response time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_...ive_protection. Further, all laptops cause the drive heads to be unloaded any time they're put to sleep or suspended.
To the guy in this thread who said carrying his laptop on the train killed its hard disk: no, it most certainly didn't. The short lifespan of consumer grade magnetic drives owing to limited bad-sector replacement buffer most probably did.
To the guy who emphatically advocated backups: why, you sound like me sir! Yes, a thousand times yes. Treat your laptop as disposable, 'cause that's how they're building 'em these days. Keep the important stuff stored off the laptop drive, either in the cloud or on a separate backup medium you maintain. Bear in mind that copying stuff to a flash drive and then leaving that flash drive at the bottom of a drawer full of metal shavings for six years doesn't really count as a backup. If you're gonna keep backups, you gotta check that they still work with some regularity.
To the OP: yes, you can carry your laptop in your pannier, and it will be fine.
To the guy in this thread who said carrying his laptop on the train killed its hard disk: no, it most certainly didn't. The short lifespan of consumer grade magnetic drives owing to limited bad-sector replacement buffer most probably did.
To the guy who emphatically advocated backups: why, you sound like me sir! Yes, a thousand times yes. Treat your laptop as disposable, 'cause that's how they're building 'em these days. Keep the important stuff stored off the laptop drive, either in the cloud or on a separate backup medium you maintain. Bear in mind that copying stuff to a flash drive and then leaving that flash drive at the bottom of a drawer full of metal shavings for six years doesn't really count as a backup. If you're gonna keep backups, you gotta check that they still work with some regularity.
To the OP: yes, you can carry your laptop in your pannier, and it will be fine.
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