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I am typing this entry on the fourth laptop I've ever owned; before that, I used a desktop machine exclusively.
My first laptop was silver and blue, and I called him Rolan. I've forgotten his make, model, and cause of death (as it were); he was replaced by a slim black number I named Raven because he was very like a writing-desk. :-> Long-term, deteriorating failure of the power supply led to his replacement with Widebody, a silver compaq, and my first widescreen-format laptop. This was a year ago last late summer.
Then Widebody got posessed -- it acted as if the right arrow key was constantly held down. It didn't do it constantly, though; there would be times when everything was fine, times when it intermittently experienced the behavior now and then ... and periods where I couldn't do anything that involved pull-down menus, or edit textfiles at all. Then the periods of posession grew worse, and longer. Its unusability contributed to my lack of any progress to speak of on my NaNovel this year, among other factors.
When we discovered Widebody's warranty was expired, John took an opportunity to whip out the screwdriver and try to fix it. He cut the trace to the right-arrow key, which fixed the problem ... but also took the rightmost eight keys of the array with it. Oops. :-> So he ordered me a new keyboard on eBay, which, once installed, solved the problem entirely.
So why do I have a new laptop, when the old one still works? I tend to be the kind of person to run a machine utterly into the ground and then have to have it pried from my fingertips -- I dislike change, and dislike settling into a new computer or operating system worst of all.
No, I have a new laptop, running Vista, because my mother-in-law needed a laptop that would run WordPerfect 5.1 that she could use at her office.
We discovered it would run on Widebody quite handily; we had no information on how Vista would handle it. So my mother-in-law bought me a laptop, we baselined my old one, and installed and set it up for her use. Complicated, but not nearly as much so as some of the stuff we come up with in this family. :->
Meanwhile, now I have my new lad, a sleek black Presario, called Ateva (yes, I'm reading Cherryh's Foreigner novels at the moment), long may he serve. Now to re-upload and re-install and re-customize all my most-used applications, spread my files about, and generally litter up the place and make it homelike.
Praise be, Vista's only about half as insanely annoying as I've been led to believe. Though if any of you folks have suggestions on where to find its customization settings, do let me know? It seems bound and determined that I don't need to worry my pretty little head about a whole lot of things I enjoy knowing about.
My first laptop was silver and blue, and I called him Rolan. I've forgotten his make, model, and cause of death (as it were); he was replaced by a slim black number I named Raven because he was very like a writing-desk. :-> Long-term, deteriorating failure of the power supply led to his replacement with Widebody, a silver compaq, and my first widescreen-format laptop. This was a year ago last late summer.
Then Widebody got posessed -- it acted as if the right arrow key was constantly held down. It didn't do it constantly, though; there would be times when everything was fine, times when it intermittently experienced the behavior now and then ... and periods where I couldn't do anything that involved pull-down menus, or edit textfiles at all. Then the periods of posession grew worse, and longer. Its unusability contributed to my lack of any progress to speak of on my NaNovel this year, among other factors.
When we discovered Widebody's warranty was expired, John took an opportunity to whip out the screwdriver and try to fix it. He cut the trace to the right-arrow key, which fixed the problem ... but also took the rightmost eight keys of the array with it. Oops. :-> So he ordered me a new keyboard on eBay, which, once installed, solved the problem entirely.
So why do I have a new laptop, when the old one still works? I tend to be the kind of person to run a machine utterly into the ground and then have to have it pried from my fingertips -- I dislike change, and dislike settling into a new computer or operating system worst of all.
No, I have a new laptop, running Vista, because my mother-in-law needed a laptop that would run WordPerfect 5.1 that she could use at her office.
We discovered it would run on Widebody quite handily; we had no information on how Vista would handle it. So my mother-in-law bought me a laptop, we baselined my old one, and installed and set it up for her use. Complicated, but not nearly as much so as some of the stuff we come up with in this family. :->
Meanwhile, now I have my new lad, a sleek black Presario, called Ateva (yes, I'm reading Cherryh's Foreigner novels at the moment), long may he serve. Now to re-upload and re-install and re-customize all my most-used applications, spread my files about, and generally litter up the place and make it homelike.
Praise be, Vista's only about half as insanely annoying as I've been led to believe. Though if any of you folks have suggestions on where to find its customization settings, do let me know? It seems bound and determined that I don't need to worry my pretty little head about a whole lot of things I enjoy knowing about.
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