Computer woes
I'm currently working on fixing up my NEW laptop. That's right, new. As in brand new I-just-got-it-from-the-shop-Thursday. Maybe I should explain why I had to get a new laptop...
Earlier this week, when I was sitting by my laptop something on the screen started to flicker. Soon there was a white stripe vertically over my screen, about one pixel wide. It came and went for some minutes at a time, until it stayed there and did not go away. It appears in all programs, and even when I start up the laptop - leading us to think that it's the screen the fault lies in. Now, we called HP for help and to see if we could send it for service and get the screen replaced before I leave for Japan. They have had two weeks service before... but now they have four weeks. That's minimum four weeks. When do I leave? That's right - in FIVE weeks. So sending it for service might leave me out of a computer entirely during my stay in Japan. I can not have that. So, the other option was to take it with me and replace the screen when I get back home. I would have to live with that annoying line at the screen for a year. Only there's another problem... the service guarantee ends in December, while I am in Japan. That would mean that we would not get the screen replaced even when I get home with the laptop again. Which would suck because it's an expensive computer and to have a faulty 17" widescreen is not fun. Especially if the screen is important for like drawing and stuff and you want to use the computer for a few years at least.
So, we discussed this in the family. This laptop was my dad's and he had thought he would save some money by handing this one over to me, and then get himself a new one. But, being incredibly nice as they are, my parents offered to get me a new laptop instead (and so he takes this one back and sends it for service).
Alas, Thursday was spent looking for a new laptop for me! I ended up with another HP (Pavilion dv6740), but with a 15,4" widescreen instead. It doesn't matter much to me that it's smaller, because then it will be easier to carry around. It also had a built-in webcamera and other nice thingers. I can play my games on it as well. It's almost like a portable PC to be honest. The other one is too, but it is bigger and heavier. Only problem is that it has Windows Vista, and you can't change the OS to XP because then the service guarantee won't be valid anymore (strange, I know). So I will have to completely re-install all my programs again. *sigh*
I had also already bought a special computer bag for the 17", so I'll have to go and buy a new one. Which I don't mind either, because when I was looking for a nice computer backpack (to make it easier to carry around at the airports for example) I found a goergeous one. Only they didn't make it for 17" laptops so I couldn't buy it. I will so get it now! * 0 * It's all black, sleek, and with blue details. So purrrdy.
Earlier this week, when I was sitting by my laptop something on the screen started to flicker. Soon there was a white stripe vertically over my screen, about one pixel wide. It came and went for some minutes at a time, until it stayed there and did not go away. It appears in all programs, and even when I start up the laptop - leading us to think that it's the screen the fault lies in. Now, we called HP for help and to see if we could send it for service and get the screen replaced before I leave for Japan. They have had two weeks service before... but now they have four weeks. That's minimum four weeks. When do I leave? That's right - in FIVE weeks. So sending it for service might leave me out of a computer entirely during my stay in Japan. I can not have that. So, the other option was to take it with me and replace the screen when I get back home. I would have to live with that annoying line at the screen for a year. Only there's another problem... the service guarantee ends in December, while I am in Japan. That would mean that we would not get the screen replaced even when I get home with the laptop again. Which would suck because it's an expensive computer and to have a faulty 17" widescreen is not fun. Especially if the screen is important for like drawing and stuff and you want to use the computer for a few years at least.
So, we discussed this in the family. This laptop was my dad's and he had thought he would save some money by handing this one over to me, and then get himself a new one. But, being incredibly nice as they are, my parents offered to get me a new laptop instead (and so he takes this one back and sends it for service).
Alas, Thursday was spent looking for a new laptop for me! I ended up with another HP (Pavilion dv6740), but with a 15,4" widescreen instead. It doesn't matter much to me that it's smaller, because then it will be easier to carry around. It also had a built-in webcamera and other nice thingers. I can play my games on it as well. It's almost like a portable PC to be honest. The other one is too, but it is bigger and heavier. Only problem is that it has Windows Vista, and you can't change the OS to XP because then the service guarantee won't be valid anymore (strange, I know). So I will have to completely re-install all my programs again. *sigh*
I had also already bought a special computer bag for the 17", so I'll have to go and buy a new one. Which I don't mind either, because when I was looking for a nice computer backpack (to make it easier to carry around at the airports for example) I found a goergeous one. Only they didn't make it for 17" laptops so I couldn't buy it. I will so get it now! * 0 * It's all black, sleek, and with blue details. So purrrdy.