Dude, I've Gotten A Dell
Although everyone has the best of intentions during the gift giving season, the best gifts often seem to be the ones you give yourself. A day at a spa. Dinner and a movie with that special someone. A new, expensive sweater you've had your eye on.
Well, I decided to indulge myself this year and buy a rather expensive gift. The fact that it happened right around the holidays was just coincidence. I wasn't going to ask anyone else to get it for me either. Although I was a lot more nice than I was naughty, I still know Santa's credit max's out at some point. Besides, that's one of the great things about not having a ton of finances but making a steady paycheck. What good is it if you can't splurge once and awhile?
So this year I bought myself a new laptop computer. My old laptop still works, although it's been around a few years now and definitely has its quirks. For one thing, it doesn't like certain websites, as some of you well know first hand. So sometimes I'd go visit a link and before I knew it, Mozilla would just crash.
The other ghetto thing about my previous laptop is the keyboard. The letters of many of the keys have chipped away or disappeared completely. I had been toying with trying to paint them back on, but never got around to it. Unfortunately I type loudly and with deliberation. Someone even yelled at me at the campus computer lab for this exact reason years ago. So chances are it eventually will happen to this laptop, too. The good news is though that I luckily know how to type correctly, so there's not much frustrating second guessing of letters.
But as frustrating as these things might seem to you, I had grown quite accustomed to them. I had no immediate plans to purchase a new laptop. After all, mine was working and it served me well, at least I thought it did. Sooner rather than later though my boyfriend talked me into it. It was mainly because he made me an offer I couldn't refuse. See he has the same exact laptop, a Dell Inspiron 6400. He got his where he gets most of his technological toys, from his job. Apparently his boss gets great deals on computers because he orders them in mass and receives a huge discount as a result. So my order got tagged onto his tab and I ended up getting a brand new laptop with all the bells and whistles for less money than I would have had I not known any better.
Of course I'm not saying I know any better, I'm just saying it's all about who you know. I can tell you it has 1.00 GB of RAM. Unfortunately I can't tell you much more. I'm savvy, but not that savvy. All I can tell you, from a user's perspective is all you need to know: things run faster, my screen is bigger, certain sites no longer crash and my computer no longer sounds like a heavy breather, about to make an obscene phone call.
In conclusion, I'd like to acknowledge the moving of my old computer to computer purgatory. We had a good run old chap, minus many arguments that resulted in control/alt/deletes that is. Only time well tell if this computer will treat me just as good as the old one. Sometimes bigger and better does indeed mean just that, while other times it's not the size of the Intel chip that matters, if you catch my drift.
Well, I decided to indulge myself this year and buy a rather expensive gift. The fact that it happened right around the holidays was just coincidence. I wasn't going to ask anyone else to get it for me either. Although I was a lot more nice than I was naughty, I still know Santa's credit max's out at some point. Besides, that's one of the great things about not having a ton of finances but making a steady paycheck. What good is it if you can't splurge once and awhile?
So this year I bought myself a new laptop computer. My old laptop still works, although it's been around a few years now and definitely has its quirks. For one thing, it doesn't like certain websites, as some of you well know first hand. So sometimes I'd go visit a link and before I knew it, Mozilla would just crash.
The other ghetto thing about my previous laptop is the keyboard. The letters of many of the keys have chipped away or disappeared completely. I had been toying with trying to paint them back on, but never got around to it. Unfortunately I type loudly and with deliberation. Someone even yelled at me at the campus computer lab for this exact reason years ago. So chances are it eventually will happen to this laptop, too. The good news is though that I luckily know how to type correctly, so there's not much frustrating second guessing of letters.
But as frustrating as these things might seem to you, I had grown quite accustomed to them. I had no immediate plans to purchase a new laptop. After all, mine was working and it served me well, at least I thought it did. Sooner rather than later though my boyfriend talked me into it. It was mainly because he made me an offer I couldn't refuse. See he has the same exact laptop, a Dell Inspiron 6400. He got his where he gets most of his technological toys, from his job. Apparently his boss gets great deals on computers because he orders them in mass and receives a huge discount as a result. So my order got tagged onto his tab and I ended up getting a brand new laptop with all the bells and whistles for less money than I would have had I not known any better.
Of course I'm not saying I know any better, I'm just saying it's all about who you know. I can tell you it has 1.00 GB of RAM. Unfortunately I can't tell you much more. I'm savvy, but not that savvy. All I can tell you, from a user's perspective is all you need to know: things run faster, my screen is bigger, certain sites no longer crash and my computer no longer sounds like a heavy breather, about to make an obscene phone call.
In conclusion, I'd like to acknowledge the moving of my old computer to computer purgatory. We had a good run old chap, minus many arguments that resulted in control/alt/deletes that is. Only time well tell if this computer will treat me just as good as the old one. Sometimes bigger and better does indeed mean just that, while other times it's not the size of the Intel chip that matters, if you catch my drift.
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