Get a new Computer

While I was away on a business trip over the weekend, my house was broken into and my laptop was stolen (along with other items…sigh). I had planned to replace it at some point. This just forced the issue. So today I got a new HP Pavilion with 4GB RAM, 320GB HD storage and a DVD-RW drive, a huge upgrade over the stolen computer. Now if I can persuade my insurance company to cover at least half the cost, I’ll be a bit more happy about having a new PC.

when the computer I was on lost its modem. It wasn’t even my computer, but in order to get back on line and keep working, I just had to go ahead and get the damn thing already.

All that research lead me to believe that the computers in my price range were pretty much all the same. Not fancy, but fitting my needs.

Rather than get a refurbished one or search online for the best deal, I just went to Bestbuy and got the one I’d been looking at on line.

Bada bing bada bing.

After my uncle fixing the internet, and finding out maybe his old computer didn’t crash after all, I’m up and online with a new, not fancy, but faster computer.

Now I have so much work to do I’m a little overwhelmed, but I just have to take it one step at a time.

my computer needs a major upgrade…i do everything on this computer. talk to friends, learn skillz that killz, and keep in touch. not to mention look at movies…if you know wut i mean. i want one that can actually play sims 3 too!!!! OMG i wish…that wuld just *e amazing(missing letter sawy)..:P this comp is epic fail. my last one was the same type(this is sorta my moms *ut w/e), and they always have letters *reak off, get hacked easily, are just lame 4 games and all this other shit. HP can suck it. idk wut made them decide to make such *ad computers. even if u just spill a little water on ur computer, theres no way to fix it. on most computers u can take off the key and let it dry out *ut nOOOOOOOOOOOO. fail. new comp(perhaps alieware?)PWn

Today is New Computer Day! I will be participating in an anxiety fueled dance in the hopes of appeasing the great tech gods so that all will go smoothly. Hopefully all my files and photos will be freshly accessible, my programs will run correctly, and I’ll be back online with a sweeter, smaller, swifter (and most importantly, functional) machine. Then I can catch up properly on the last week or so.

You know it just struck me – I should have a “geek appreciation” party for all my lovely tech friends who periodically rescue me from the black screen of death. I could decorate a cake like a circuit card, with green icing and those little silver sugar balls… or would it be dangerous to get that many ridiculously clever and able people together – they might concoct a plan to take over the world. Not that that would be a bad thing…

Perhaps I checked off that “fix my computer” goal prematurely – it is now an ex computer. Definitely not just sleeping. Every now and then (like now) I get a weak wireless signal via my laptop, and that will have to supply my online fix for a while.

Yesterday tech-friend #2 came by and after the system rebooted itself repeatedly he declared it pretty much as useful as burnt toast. He says he has a decent computer he isn’t using and would be happy to let me have it, so he’s coming by with it Friday. His gf and I are old friends, so we’re making a tech+dine night of it.

Until then I’ll be getting to know my laptop a bit better and hoping the mystery wireless holds out. (bugger – I don’t know if I’ll ever manage to get caught up now).

My current computer is broken and it will cost a lot to fix it. So the best option is buying a new one. I have the money and I’ve found a good one for a fair price. All I have to do is go to the store and buy it.

My old computer was getting slow and annoying . . . then about 2 weeks ago, a piece of it shorted out entirely. I faced the choice: Fix old, out-of-date computer. Get new computer.

I’m not quite used to it yet and keep making typos because the keys seem to be a little closer together than on my old one but other than that and a few aggravations with Windows Vista, I’m loving it. So fast in comparison to the old one!

I had this built back in 2006 but it’s caused a load of trouble since.

One thing after another has gone wrong and I’m not going to pay the Geek Squad to do a $99 dollar diagnostic to tell me that’s it’s something stupid again, like the fans being installed backwards. So basically I have an $600 dollar glowing ottoman. (Though I will say that it makes a very pretty foot rest, green & glowing dragon case purr)

The boy-o believes he can fix it with some time, but we’re still doing the distance thing right now. He needs time to tinker and it’s hard when we only see each other three days at a time every few months.

At any rate, when he does move up we’ll at least have one working desktop between us. Maybe we can salvage some of the parts from comp. There are still good pieces in it, they just don’t work with each other. Murf.

Well I don’t really NEED it, but I’d like to get a new gaming rig (desktop) before I head off to college… my laptop is getting kind of old and worn, and just doesn’t cut it for new games with extremely high system demands like Crysis.

I guess all I need to accomplish this is to make around 1.5 thousand bucks, maybe a bit more for a monitor and stuff… but that’s a separate goal in and of itself.

(bought it in another city and had to carry the machine all the way from there,but i’m now the proud owner of a new computer)