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They aren't Jim seeing as they use the same hardware as any other computer more or less. Actually last year I lost two drives, a maxtor and a IBM in my tower before I switched to a laptop. They are far easier to recover from when there is a problem and in general give far less problems. Even if for some reason the OS has to be reinstalled you don't have to reinstall the apps again and are usually back up and running in about a hour after telling the OS disk to do an archive and install.
I thought from reading your message you had just gotten a corrupt system file not lost your whole drive. Laying it on its side while running shouldn't have killed your drive unless you really banged it will turning it on its side.
I actually do own a PC, its a Win2K machine, and had to reformat and reinstall the OS three times last year which is crazy seeing as it sits turned off most of the time.
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