This last week I got a new laptop. My mom ordered it for me back at the end of Janurary, dispite my protests that my current laptop was fine, and it arrived last Friday. I had to housesit that weekend, so I didn’t get to really play with it until Monday. As it turns out my mom must be a bit psychic because my old laptop’s battery gave up the ghost that weekend. I’d been having trouble with it for awhile – sometime in October it started getting fussy about connecting to wireless networks, and ejecting my ipod and CDs. In December the wireless died outright, the conection between the wireless and the motherboard failing. Then, with the battery dying, it became something I couldn’t really use anymore, even though it is still a rather new laptop – I only bought it just over a year ago! Thankfully my old laptop has found a home with my dad, who isn’t bothered by its various failures, and my new laptop was here and ready to take over.
My new laptop is a Studio 15 from Dell. Purple of course. It has twice the space and power as my old laptop. Deciding that perhaps naming something that was 15.4 inches/over five pounds after a dainty fairy had not been a good idea I decided to name it Impa and I spent all day Monday just transfering programs and files from my old laptop to my new one. I’m all set up, but I still feel strange using it – it can’t quite read my mind yet, like a well broken in computer will. I still haven’t gotten used to having the headphone jack being on the side instead of on the front. Tomorrow is the first time I’ll be taking it anywhere with me, so I’ve yet to see how it travels – I’ve even gotten a brand new bag that will hopefully fit it better then my old one. Hopefully this one will last me longer then the last.