So, today is kind of a sad day. I think this is the last time I will ever rebuild this lappy that I’m using to upload this blog post. It is getting very old and decrepit. It is and HP ze5375us. I don’t know if you can look that up, but if you can you will get a good idea about its age.
Last night, I was thinking and I decided that this laptop is probably eight five years old. EIGHT five YEARS OLD! As it goes with laptops, and especially one that is used as often as this one, that is pretty impressive. (Well less impressive once I found the original receipt and found out that this laptop is really only 5 years old…bummer.)
It looks old. There are little rubber band things that hold the LCD in place in the lid that have come loose behind the glass and make little S’s over the screen. The plastic place where you rest your hands when you type has been rubbed smooth. The left click button on the track pad has turned black because I have rubbed the silver off. The O key looks like a C key because some of the paint has rubbed off, and nearly every other key is smooth from use. I have to plug it in over and over for it to finally start taking a charge. The little rubber feet on the bottom have been gone for years. There is a large crack behind the screen on the lower left, no doubt from dropping my backpack with the laptop in it…probably should have lost the screen that day, but it survived. After about 10 minutes the left channel goes out on the sound card. The fans are sooo loud that my lappy sounds like a hover craft readying itself for take off, and they never, never turn off. The silver bezel that runs around the lower part is slowly turning from silver to black. The internal wireless card doesn’t support WPA encryption. The button on the front that is supposed to turn the wireless card still lights up, but doesn’t do anything else…it certainly doesn’t turn off the wireless card.
My Laptop is like an old comfortable pair of flip-flops that have the impression of your foot forever indented upon them. They are extraordinarily comfy but in the back of your mind, you know that their days are numbered.
I need some money to buy a new one. This one is on its last legs.
Over the past couple of weeks it has been beeping at me, not through the normal speakers, the internal speaker. I don’t know if I had some viruses or what, but it became very apparent that it was time for a rebuild. But, alas, this will be its last rebuild.
I am going to have to make a decision soon as to what kind of computer to buy. Should I buy an iBook, or some Windows box. I really want an iBook, but I don’t have no $1000 dollars, plus tax, to buy it.
Hopefully this thing lasts long enough to tide me over.
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