This is what one of my aunties calls a laptop. Although I shouldn’t make fun of her considering she paid for the last one I had.
Anyhoo, that last one, Dell Inspiron 600m or whatever, finally gave up the ghost. For all the times I had to reformat that sucker, or make a toll free call to some random Indian or Filipino dude with a bad American accent and a clichéd American name for customer service or a spare part, it was a decent piece of equipment to putter around with. It lasted long enough for me to not remember how long I actually had it.
One night sucker just froze on me. I forced a shut down, but it wouldn’t turn back on. I would have been all heart break and sobs, but I knew it was coming, and at least now I had a good reason to blow some cash on something big like a new laptop.
My trip to Best Buy was fun. I always get suspicious of salespeople who try too hard, because then I think they’re hiding something from me. I wasn’t in the computers section one minute, before this possibly Filipino guy with a Lloyd Christmas haircut asks me if I needed help. I mean, yeah I did, but I didn’t even get to look at what I was working with. He sort of just went based on my price range and whether I was a gamer or not. From there, he took me to the Toshibas, and pretty much just shit talked on the Dells and HPs. I ended up asking if I could just look around for a little while longer, and in that time, I realized he gave the same selling spiel to everyone else.
In this shopping experience, though, I really didn’t care what I ended up with in the end. Have you seen laptop prices lately? You go in expecting to pay $1500 – $2000, and you come away with something a fourth of that price and extra crap because you have the luxury to pay for it. Who cares if this thing lasts only two years! I mean, then you have those Macs. For all those Apple nerds out there, you pay an arm and a leg, it better damn well last you five years at least.
I’ve been taking the slow road in transferring my files to my laptop from my external hard drives. I could always just keep it there, but then, I’m using it as an excuse to purge all that random junk. Oh, and there were stillfiles on my old laptop. There was a trick to getting it to turn on. It was so random, like blowing into an NES cartridge. I noticed that, it turned on when, in my frustration, I slammed my hands on it as I pushed the power button, and I could feel the disk spin inside. Of course, when I released the pressure, it froze and I had to force it to shut down again. So what I ended up having to do was place the laptop on my lap, push down on the sides, and it turned on and stayed on. For thirty minutes. I stayed in that position. Without moving. LAME.
So now I got a shiny (literally), new Toshiba Satellite A305 blah blah blah for all you nerds out there. Kenneth. It works fine. I like it just fine. It gets me on Facebook and Gmail. Is all I care about.
