Computers in the jungle - Help
Hopefully early 2005 I am going to return to the jungle, the one with trees, not concrete.
I was there in 1997 and my Dell laptop hard drive died on me after about ten months. It was replaced and said computer was lent to my nephew temporarily and is now happily living in the outback of Australia - I will never see it again!
2000 saw me back in the jungle with my Dell PC which went very sick after about three months and my daughter returned it to the UK in her suitcase. The airline did us proud, it arrived undamaged!! It was repaired and I am still using it.
However, I am not carting it back this time and as I propose staying out for several years am looking to buy a new laptop.
It will be homed in a local native style cottage with no air conditioning. Fairly open to the elements and certainly open to ants spiders and any other bugs (not so bad with a laptop). The temperature is always way above 30 and the humidity is often off the clock, especially during the rainy season.
I would probably be able to get access to one air conditioned place but the aircon would not be on all the time and it would also be inconvenient.
Therefore what suggestions would you have as to the make and also the best way of keeping the computer safe and sound in such a tough climate where everything seems to get attached by fungus and mildew.
I will hopefully be doing quite a bit of photography (same problem with my camera) which I will need to download and then store on disc so therefore need something reliable. I don't think I want to go for an Mac as I think that would cause me a deal of grief over in the Philippines in case of it going wrong.
Any suggestions?
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