"As she can?" you might ask?
Yes, my faithful laptop has finally crashed.
Hard disk failure.
Dead.
10% chance of recovery.
RIP
x/x/2003 - 10/10/2008That's right, this baby lasted 5 years, which is normal for a laptop. I might want to classify its status as a "vegetable" since there is that 10% chance..... but oh well!
Who is the idiot who didn't back up anything since 1994?
Yeah, that would be me.
So my plans to save up money and spend very little backfired, considering I have to load up my credit card with the purchase of a new laptop. Two realizations:
1) I still don't have the $$ to buy a macbook.
2) That doesn't mean I have to sacrifice prettyness:
hehehehe. Tall, dark and handsome!
It even has a built in camera and mic! Wohoo skype sessions!
Plus, I get a 250 GB hard disk and 3 GB of RAM - helloooo!
Unfortunately there were complications with the stupid bureaucracy of what is secure and what isn't, that's why it just shipped today, though I ordered it on sunday night..... gahh!
It better take the promised 3 business days or less to get here, that means I might even get it by saturday (is that a business day for UPS? who knows!)
Anywhoo, a less-than-savvy computer person like me needs to do some research beforehand anyways. For example, I want 2 partitions in my hard disk, just in case. It worked well for me last time (who knows, might even have pro-longed the life of the HP)
I also need to get rid of (and I researched this) so called - "bloatware" which apparently, on Sony's Laptops, is so extensive that Sony itself CHARGES you $50 to ship you an un-bloated laptop. Bastards!
I can so do that myself (hopefully!)
I'm not too crazy about Vista.... we'll see though!
I noticed that my favorite Texan has commented... I wonder if anyone else ever clicks on this. If you do, I promise to try to be funny!
My life is semi exciting right now. I'd say definitely above average! Maybe I'll keep posting!
In any case, next time I'll be posting from my sweet new laptop!
