My computer is slowly dying. Slowly is the key word here, because it seems that every day it gets just a little bit slower and it functions a little bit less well. I suppose for a laptop to last 6 years (I’ve only had to replace the hard drive once) is fairly impressive.
It just takes a lot of patience to do anything on the slow machine. I press the power button to turn it on and I might as well go do some other short task while it boots up…. Then I come back and double-click the firefox shortcut, and it will be another few minutes for my computer to decide to pull up my email. So I return and enter my password, and glance away for another minute…you get the idea. Checking my email is a time investment. And then a 3 1/2 minute youtube video is about all the video card can take before getting choppy and impossible to watch.
So I think it’s about time to retire the Dell dinosaur and get something a bit newer (don’t worry, I’ve backed up my files just in case I should be visited by the blue screen of death).
But what should I get? A desktop? I’m not in school anymore, so it isn’t as crucial to have a laptop, but it’s so nice to have the mobility a laptop brings. Then there’s the question of what kind of capabilities I want my computer to have. And I live in Charlottesville, where it’s trendy to have Apple computers (which makes me not really want to get one because of that very fact). But I must admit they are prety sleek. Also, am I cool enough for an Apple? I feel like the computer might out-cool me, and who wants that?
Laptop? Desktop? Windows? Apple? Specs? Options?How much money do I want to spend?
So for the time being, I am trapped in indecision, dreaming of a computer with which checking my email isn’t a 15-minute time commitment (and I’m not even counting the time it takes to actually read and respond to email, this is strictly time getting to my gmail screen and being able to open up the first message).
