sincere | Laptop failure! The curse grows

Elizabeth's laptop died a little, so I let her use my Eee PC, because otherwise she'd be stuck with nothing. Anyway, I have this new awesome laptop, so I don't need to use my tiny portable pc!

...she dropped it. The screen is utterly damaged and shows nothing of the desktop at all. The computer itself is still fine, and works fine if we plug it into a real monitor. So I guess it needs a replacement screen?

That's laptop number three on my pile of laptops that have failed me in the last two months. Please, new laptop, don't follow their example.

I'm not really upset. Am I immune to upset because I'm filled with hope for the future? Do I just not feel concern for it, since it was essentially a portable internet machine I couldn't do anything else on? Am I an alien who just really doesn't care? I feel like it sometimes. I just sort of went, "Oh. Wow, it's so messed up." I didn't reassure her that I don't care, because I'm a bitch, but I don't really -- I don't know.

I don't really feel things.

Okay, now I'm depressed.

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If I had three laptops go belly-up on me over the course of just two months, I bet by the third one I would have temporarily used up all my ARGHHHHHH and would be left only with oh. Really? Well, whatever.

That stinks no matter what, though-- sorry the screen needs replacing! : (

It wasn't all ARGHHH. It developed slowly and it's not like I bought them all recently. The full story:

The Dell laptop that developed an odd problem (it'll try to turn on for about ten seconds and then abruptly power down; happened out of the blue, no warning) is a very old laptop that I bought from work before I got laid off for like $150. I possibly can get this fixed, but I don't have the money to spend.

The Sony laptop is about three years old and it's had a power problem for two years of that -- it has a battery life of five minutes and it slowly lost all sensitivity in the power jack until now it just refuses to acknowledge it's on A/C power and won't even try to turn on. This laptop is just dead, and it died slowly enough that I prepared beforehand. This happened like a week, two weeks ago.

Then the Eee PC, which is about a year old. It's a $300 laptop the size of a paperback and it runs on an obscure operating system, so basically all I ever did with it was use it as a portable internet machine when I didn't have a working laptop. XD Obviously this dropping-and-breaking thing was unexpected, and it's so cheap it might not even be worth it to fix it.

So it's like... Each incident is terrible, but they never added up for me, because they were slow or mitigated somehow by logic. Also I'm an alien. :(

Unfortunately, laptops are still delicate and unreliable technology. If you do get a new machine, might I suggest a desktop?

I actually bought my eee because they're cheap and pretty disposable as far as laptops go, so if it got broken or stolen I wouldn't mind so much as if my, oh, $3,000 Dell got stolen.

But I know the feeling of apathy, though I wouldn't really say it's apathy just because of the connotation. I get supremely pissed off and flail about something, but not long after I have hit this zen "it is what it is" sort of place. This is how I feel about everything that comes into my life. You can't do anything about it anyway, so there's no point in getting upset and railing against the state of things.

I already have a new laptop. This is the second time I've made a post about it and people have advised me to do something other than buy the laptop I've already bought. Reading comprehension, people!

A desktop is not what I want. I have a very good desktop that has lasted me many years, with a good video card. But a desktop cannot come into the living room with me while I watch TV. And a desktop cannot lie in bed with me when I feel crappy, as right now. And many people have had laptops that have lasted years; those people just aren't me.

I read that Asus will fix the broken screen issue for, oh, twice the price of the actual Eee PC. XD

I know you have a new laptop. I meant for your next machine, and I'm sure you'll get one eventually. :P

But that is a good point about desktops.

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