RiP, Mercykiller...?
So.
Mercykiller, my wonderful Alienware M15x that has served me faithfully for several years, is starting to come apart. Interior components in the monitor are breaking apart as I open and close it, and falling out as chunks of semi-opaque silver plastic. One of the little screw-nubbins that holds the front and back of the monitor sections together fell out a little earlier.
I don't want to wait until this starts to damage the monitor before I do something, so I'm going to be buying a new computer next month, once I get my school funds. It'll be another M15x, it'll just cost a lot more, and I'll be running Windows 7 for the first time, after narrowly avoiding the tragedy of Vista. It's... going to be a change.
And I'm going to miss Mercykiller; he's the first computer I ever bought with my own money from my first job ever. And aside from a couple weeks last year where he overheated and I had to start over fresh with a reboot, he's served me faithfully. No slowness, no viral epidemics, no crashes.
And I didn't mind the way that other people stared in awe when I took him out in public, either.
Mercykiller, my wonderful Alienware M15x that has served me faithfully for several years, is starting to come apart. Interior components in the monitor are breaking apart as I open and close it, and falling out as chunks of semi-opaque silver plastic. One of the little screw-nubbins that holds the front and back of the monitor sections together fell out a little earlier.
I don't want to wait until this starts to damage the monitor before I do something, so I'm going to be buying a new computer next month, once I get my school funds. It'll be another M15x, it'll just cost a lot more, and I'll be running Windows 7 for the first time, after narrowly avoiding the tragedy of Vista. It's... going to be a change.
And I'm going to miss Mercykiller; he's the first computer I ever bought with my own money from my first job ever. And aside from a couple weeks last year where he overheated and I had to start over fresh with a reboot, he's served me faithfully. No slowness, no viral epidemics, no crashes.
And I didn't mind the way that other people stared in awe when I took him out in public, either.