My lovely laptop

Last week Oom Tony told me about a potential buyer of my four year old laptop. He assured me that this buyer would give me a pretty good deal, and he would lend me one of his many laptops while I'm looking for a new one. The price of new laptop has decreased considerably during these years, and now you can get one with 400-500 euro which would have costed you double four years ago. There is also a good deal with the mobile company, in which you could get a new laptop together with a cell phone and a certain abonement agreement just by paying 20 euro per months for 2 years. In short, today is the good time to ditch your old smelly laptop and get a new shiny one.

My laptop needs 10 minutes to boot up (you can take a shower and come back and it's still in the boot-up process). 5 minutes after on, the machine would growl like crazy and the board get as hot as a stove. It is completely useless without the non-stop plugged in battery. It has no webcam, no internal bluetooth, no card reader, no wireless, no DVD or CD burner, no nothing. It weighs like a ton, has no brand, 512 upgraded memory and 40GB internal disc (trust me, those are very very lame in this MacBook era) and was a bit dirty from a non-stop four years exposure to a student life. I was amazed if it could sell at all.

But however ugly my laptop is, it has accompanied me during this time without any major complaint. The keyboards are intact and the speaker never fails. It stays with me in the sleepless nights during my second years report craze, and it hold on when I typed my bloody thesis and presentation. If love exist, it would be justifiable to say that I'm in love with it. If soulmate exist, it was one of the many souls I have. It was a part of me. It knows my bank balances (which shown that I'm always broke) and the dirty little secrets and the skeleton in my closet. Those priceless and unrepleaceable things make me think twice to say yes to the offer.

Then Oom lend me his laptop. A shiny new Hewlett Packard with 2GB working memory and 1024 GB internal disc. Takes 5 seconds to boot up, one second to open a webpage, and a Window vista operator who said "welcome to Windows Vista. I am your official intelligent" every time I log in. It has a DVD and CD burner, weigh half as my old one, and is equipped with a wireless and a card reader. Wow. He said I could get the same laptop with the cellphone abonement system and an additional 70 euro. As you expected, this good deal shake my determination and cut the crap about those sentimentil things I've written in the previous paragraph :-)

So tomorrow afternoon I will say goodbye to my old friend. I'm sure he would be happier with the new owner. Finally he will be at peace. And maybe I will make a new acquintance soon. Yohooo!!