New Laptop Troubles
Posted by beehive on 26 Mar 2007 at 07:41 pm | Tagged as: Uncategorized
So I went out and purchased a new laptop this evening, and besides the hit to my credit card, I am taking a hit to my brain.
For instance, where the hell are the buttons that allow me to use the features that I know for a fact to be in this notebook?
With all of the manuals consisting of either a) troubleshooting notes on things that would make me want to pour gasoline on the notebook, or b) contain advertisements of things that I would never in my life buy. The only things that I seem to find are the easily displayed “uninstall” buttons, which ever so eaily delete all of the beautiful features that I just purchased.
Maybe it’s because I have been living happily at home with my 1999 Compaq Presario, where everything definately ran slowly, however, at least it was all clearly labeled.
Even the control panel is conpletely different.
What happened to everything in this world.
I now know what “Brooks” from the Shawshank Redemption must have gone through when he left prison and went to live in that halfway house.
See, this is why I’ve bought one computer in the last five years and I will use it until the day I die or finally explodes.
Sure, I can’t do anything with other than (occassionaly) check email and use Microsoft Word but, upside, I never have to learn how to use a new computer!
I was due for a new one, the one I’m on now barely lets me in to check my email, but if there is an attachment to that email, I might as well get a smoke signal fire burning to find out what the picture is of before it finishes downloading.