RIP Old Clunker

[ciroccoj]

My life flashed before my eyes today. Well, my e-life, anyway. My clunky old computer, that my mom bought in 2003 and that gets slower every day, decided it didn't care for this "mouse" thing attached to it, and refused to let me do anything with it. E-mail, write, log on… anything. We tried many different mice. No dice.

Chris, with what I'm sure was superhuman effort, avoided saying "I told you so" ('cause he's been telling me to get a Mac for ages) and helped me get things set up so I could do a little bit on it, tabbing around like an idiot. But it's time to get a new computer. The old one has been purged of just about everything I want to get rid of, but it's still all full and old and decrepit and needs to go to e-heaven.

::sigh::

Just in time for a fic deadline, too. Marvelous.

Comments

[naatz.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't start right off the bat with a Mac, since it's more expensive {I don't know what your budget is}, and it's sort of a shame to get such a strong computer for emails and surfing.

If you choose to buy a non-Mac, go with something that moves, and skip Vista right into the Windows 7. If you don't want Windows, I hear Ubuntu is pretty nice. :)

I hope the fic survived. . . .

|Meduza|

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Chris has a Mac, and we love it. It's fast, can do just about anything we want to do with it, doesn't break down, no viruses, etc etc. We do a lot more than e-mails and surfing, too; we've got educational games, watch a lot of news-related things, go to science sites for the kids, and the kids and Chris use it for a lot of their game time.

The fic survived, though it was unbelievably slow going doing the final edits with only tab keys working. Still. It's done, handed in, gone, woot!

[shiningmoon.livejournal.com]

I fully endorse the Mac idea, even if 'just' for email and surfing (works well for writing, too!) :)

Ubuntu is nice, but if you're not a Unix-head, it might require more 'under the hood' upkeep than you're used to (it continues to drive me crazy in some regards).

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we're going with a Mac - it's what Chris has and it's what we use the most at home :)