Laptop HELL!!!

By coscooper

I’m killing laptops faster than I can get a post on my blog. After getting my old “faithful” PowerBook back from the shop where it’s sporting a nice new monitor screen, it decides to start acting up on me. One week of crashes, lockups and weird behaviour. Then, on the Sunday before a business trip, it decides to just stop booting up. I get the you’re F’d in 5 languages screen and attempted to boot it 10-15 time and the you’re F’d continued in different places during the boot process.

Unfortunately, I had my DELL Lattitude D800, big as a Mac truck, and decided to take it and the PowerBook on the trip. At the Hotel the first night, the PowerBook finally had one successful boot, YEAH!!! USB flash drive saved the day by copying all the “relevant” or “current” files I needed over to the DELL. Whew…

Resolved myself once again to have to rely on the old DELL to try and keep up with my work, all 9 POUNDS of it.

It lasted… a Week. The very next Friday it started over again. After finally giving up on the PowerBook, as Tad so elequently put it, it’s Toast Man, I’d decided to just try and get something done and had most of my backup files either on an old Mac or on a the old D800 from the last fiasco.

It BEGAN!!! Got home Friday night after shutting it down, the D800 decided to just not power up. Nothing, no lights, no chimes, no even attempting to do anything. Power must be completely dead. The Battery is fully charged, tried different power cords, different battery, everything. So, after refraining from taking it out into the street and smashing it into a million peices, I calmed down and went to a Bar Mitzvah. Yep, more interesting than my laptop saga, I can tell you that. Of course, that’s another blog by itself.

So… here I sit, Sunday morning, once again using one of our old faithful, hardly used iBooks trying to decide what to do. Plead my case to my boss that I need a new MacBook Pro, or just go get one myself because, cause if I finagle a new machine, probably reluctantly from my boss, it’ll be the lowest end because of “Cost Containment”… What to do, what to do.

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