Temporary Laptop
July 8th, 2007 by WaltMy laptop was still under warranty, so I took it back to the store to get it fixed. They originally told me it would be “a few days”, but then they decided to send it back to the manufacturer to repair. And it’ll take four weeks! Mercifully, my warranty includes a loaner, so I have a temporary laptop. It’s a newer laptop, which would make me sad that it’s so much faster than my old laptop, but fortunately it runs Vista so that’s not a problem. Vista’s main features seem to be a) translucent windows, and b) if you let IE run for a couple of hours right-clicking stops working entirely.
With any luck, some sort of normal posting schedule will resume.
July 13th, 2007 at 3:25 am
Don’t feel too bad - my recently purchased Apple laptop (I won’t mention the model) needs to be repaired as well. The turnaround time is 7-10 business days which means a minimum of two weeks if lucky! I would need to back everything up first on some external hard drive (which I don’t have) or burn to DVD’s (not practical given all of my data and applications). No loaner either! So I’m continuing to limp along restarting and resetting continually and, yes, there does appear to be a power problem as well, although I have to run more hardware tests to be sure…
Since, I like to publish new posts on my blog every couple of days, it’s hard to let go!
Dave Marainre