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Originally Posted by speedlever
Uh oh. I am a geek.. and I do spin the fans! Forgive me for I have sinned! (I also vacuum out my PCs).  |
Sometimes spinning is unavoidable. I have to completely dismantle one of my Dell laptops to clean out the fan area, and when I take out the fan+dual heatsink (one each for the main and graphics processors) I'm faced with a choice - remove 8 tiny screws and fully dismantle it or spin the fan to clean it out. I generally spin the fan because by that point I'm tired of tiny screws.
I don't vacuum them though, but mostly because I hate the noise and the dog goes nuts. Plus I'd probably accidentally suck up the 500 tiny screws I had to take out. I go through a lot of canned air during "computer cleaning season".
Sometimes I miss the simplicity of working on desktop computers.
Back on topic - I finally cleared out the original files. I have my calibre library automatically backed up with Sugarsync, plus I do regular backups periodically. It took me a while to get to that point, though. It's hard to get out of the habit of keeping the originals. It wasn't so much that I needed the drive space as it was the fact that my drive-image backups were taking longer than they needed to because of the redundant files.