I'm slowly going blind. Or at least that's what it feels like when I try to work on my lame laptop.
SHARP PC-CL1-5VE
Moby Dick as Sarah christened my laptop is slim, light, has a DVD player and lots of memory... but the fan is always running. In the photo its propped up on hymn books so that it won't overheat. And, maybe because it overheated too many times, the backlight (inverter?) died just as I was about to leave for summer vacation in Miyagi Prefecture at the beginning of August. Naturally this was just a few months AFTER the warrantee ran out.
Matthew, who was staying with us at the time, showed me how to hook it up to an old monitor that I borrowed from another missionary. So now I have a non-portable laptop that is slowly driving me blind.
I suppose I should take it in to be fixed SOON but backing up the files is such a daunting a task!
I miss my old IBM.
3 comments:
Hey, mom, I went through all of grad school with a broken laptop hooked up to a cheap, antique monitor.
I'm constantly barraged with commericials telling me to buy a new laptop and throw the old one away. This is why I don't "update" my stuff:
(1) I know what my laptop can and cannot do.
(2) I've done so much with my laptop that it would feel like I'd be ditching an old friend.
(3) It does what I need it to do.
(4) I'm satisfied with it.
(Incidentally, it's a ten-pound NEC model from 1993.) I guess I'm too old fashioned to live in a world where people update their cellphones every year.
Kris
I can sure identify with you, Kris1 I would still be using the IBM I bought in 2000! But I had all my data transfered over to the Sharp before we found someone who could fix the IBM. So John's got it now - smf I still feel jealous sometimes as if he stole my friend.
And luke, I still haven't brought my PC in to be fixed - probably faced with the same constraints you faced in grad school. But I seriously can't read it on the monitor. Even Sarah says its fuzzy.
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