Into the void
It’s a very sad day for me, today, as I say goodbye to two years of laptop computing.
The photograph above demonstrates the void left by the removal of the dead hard drive from my old Dell laptop, which had contained everything I had worked on over the past two years.
However, it also signifies the pain and suffering I have undergone throughout those two years, with the most unreliable laptop I have ever come across in my life, made by one of the worst computer companies on the planet.
Dell are replacing the hard drive, following which it is my intention to sell the laptop (I have already found a buyer) and put the money to good use, remembering of course I have just spent £400 on a new, and vastly superior, laptop.
So, as I lie saddened at the thought that I cannot do what I had one day hoped to be able to (i.e. hit my old laptop very hard with a hammer, repeatedly), the only thought that can cross my mind is “out with the old, in with the new”.
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Shame.
I really shoudl buy a laptop. I have the cash and probably the desire. Also means I can while away free periods playing Football Manager instead of working!
I’d never advocate wasting free periods on laptops, instead of doing work! That is why I use the time wisely – by blogging
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To be fair, though, scouring t’internet for inspiration, and the latest political news, makes fantastic background reading for Politics.
Incidentally, have you noticed the sudden explosion of Sixth Formers bringing their laptops into school? I think I can finally call myself a trendsetter…
Alan wrote: “Incidentally, have you noticed the sudden explosion of Sixth Formers bringing their laptops into school? I think I can finally call myself a trendsetter…”
I like it! I can well appreciate this, having been a “trendsetter” myself on numerous counts (though usually behind the scenes, which in my case tends to work better!) and enjoying every event that takes my own vision forward…
Alan wrote, in part: “…I cannot do what I had one day hoped to be able to (i.e. hit my old laptop very hard with a hammer, repeatedly…”
Ah! You might almost have enjoyed what we used to have at Acorn User Shows — Peter Bondar’s famous “demolition zone” where he and visitors could sledge-hammer those infernal American Microsoft-based “Pee-Sea” computers.
It was fun, if a little noisy, so it tended to be in the gallery area, away from the main activities(!) I remember it well, and it was definitely cathartic, when we remembered just how much British innovation and creativity was marginalised by the aggressive American marketing regime.
I have noticed and I think you’re right.
I can see why you bring your in (you’ve got a website to run) and other people that do Computing, but some people bring theirs in to show off, I think. I probably wouldn’t bring mine in, unless it’s shinyer than Mrs J’s (which would be difficult)!!
Well originally I brought my laptop in solely for Computing, but when I started to update this more regularly, I used it for blogging and maintenance of this site as well.
And of course Mrs J’s is pretty shiny.
Haha, that is true enough.
I will not be able to compete. I would use mine for Computing, and commenting on this site! Haha!