Downgrades

As from the last post about my computer situation, I have now tallied my mark of dead laptops to 2. I'm relatively hard on computers (in some ways, it shows how well one can RUN if it lasts more than a year with me), but part of the cause was that I did not know that running too many tabs (on the internet) or windows was really hard on them.

The first one was Lanse. It was medium-sized and quite heavy. He was a dull silver and ran on Windows XP. He, somehow, went into what I would call a coma. He can run to the start-up, saying that it was shut down improperly and as it tries to go on afterwards, it can't. My dad actually ordered new CDs for it. (I don't know what caused it, but my dad usually blames viruses from what I do.)

The second (and recent) one was Aldric. He was as tiny as possible and a tablet-hybrid. He worked nicely, with the exception of the horror that is Windows Vista. However his cooling system is left to be improved. (Both laptops were HP, and my desktop also.) Which is what we think happened. It was left running for a near two months, and the cooling system couldn't handle it, more than likely. However the cooling fans have a hard time in a reasonable amount of time. (Let's just say that if you left it on your lap, you could seriously get 3rd and possibly 2nd degree burns.) However HP wanted $300 for fixing it and depending on how much a non-HP service will cost, it may or may not get fixed. The main thing I care about is the hard drive. It was a wonderfully small laptop, but it had Vista and a bad cooling system. (And yes, I know, you can downgrade to XP, which is actually more of an upgrade, if anything.) However he did have one of those new DVD burners (where you don't need sticker labels, but rather the DVD burner with laser it on for you).

I loved Lanse a lot, and he ran quite well until he randomly couldn't function. He worked quite well, actually. Never too slow or too fast (he WAS faster than my desktop until Michael, my boyfriend, upgraded it to a more proper RAM amount). It ran the only game I truly needed, Return to Castle Wolfenstein. It was a little heavy, but I've been wanting him back.