![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
PSA / LJ Hiatus / Well, Fuck
Dec. 13th, 2008 10:11 amSo my computer died. Again.
This time it was the hard drive that crapped out. I was hoping it was going to be a virus, but had them run hardware diagnostics just in case.
two WEEKS (or three to four, because there's a schmorgusboard of holidays I don't really feel like celebrating in the middle there) to put in a new hard drive.
WHAT THE FUCK, people? It takes less than ten minutes of work to unscrew the cover and pop in a new drive. I know this. I've done it. But to have it paid for, they must send it out to some factory god-knows-where and spend two weeks dicking around with it.
Long story short, I will be online even LESS- only occasionally to check email at school, or if my firend returns the old old Dell I lent her last year.
*grumpyface*
Take my advice: never, NEVER buy an HP laptop. They may be cheap, but that's really the problem. As my old Irish friend used to say, "when you pay peanuts, you get monkeys." (not that I have a thing against monkeys. Just perpetually broken laptops.)
This time it was the hard drive that crapped out. I was hoping it was going to be a virus, but had them run hardware diagnostics just in case.
two WEEKS (or three to four, because there's a schmorgusboard of holidays I don't really feel like celebrating in the middle there) to put in a new hard drive.
WHAT THE FUCK, people? It takes less than ten minutes of work to unscrew the cover and pop in a new drive. I know this. I've done it. But to have it paid for, they must send it out to some factory god-knows-where and spend two weeks dicking around with it.
Long story short, I will be online even LESS- only occasionally to check email at school, or if my firend returns the old old Dell I lent her last year.
*grumpyface*
Take my advice: never, NEVER buy an HP laptop. They may be cheap, but that's really the problem. As my old Irish friend used to say, "when you pay peanuts, you get monkeys." (not that I have a thing against monkeys. Just perpetually broken laptops.)
