Would I be wiser to go for an external hard drive or an online backup? A friend is going to take my laptop apart to clean it and redo something with my heat synch (no idea what that is other than that it's probably dried out and no longer working to cool my laptop). He's a computer guy for a living, so I trust him, but I'd still like to backup everything before hand.
I like the idea of an external hard drive, but they're expensive (yeah, I know I can get one for like $80 but that's expensive right now). But I don't know if online backup would work - my computer will only run so long before over-heating and shutting off, so if it doesn't back up relatively quickly it won't do any good.
Thoughts? Bob?