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Laptop Pins and Needles
Jun. 3rd, 2009 02:37 pmMy laptop is doing wanky things. I'm expecting it to die on me. How will I live without it? It's been my constant companion for over 4 years now, hardly leaving my side, is always happy to see me, doesn't ever want to be parted from me, always makes me happy and keeps me entertained.
There's the two vertical lines down the screen, which an upgrade on the graphics driver did not address (but thanks for the suggestion Mike!), and copying and pasting has been wanky for some time now -- I highlight a section to copy it and it un-highlights itself, or tries to move the text instead of copy it, or the highlight only catches half of what I want to highlight, or it won't copy it the first or second time. Now today it froze up a couple of time on the internets, and my taskbar somehow got the box unchecked to automatically hide it, so it wouldn't move out of the way.
Yep, I hear the death march playing in the background. I really don't think I'm going to want to get a new laptop with Vista, so I'll probably be looking at one of the little emachines or whatever they call them that still run Vista. I don't think it'll be worth spending any money to see if this one's fixable when it's already 4 years old.
Or is there? Recommendations on an emachine brand or specs would be welcome. And then maybe this baby will just keep on limping along for a while yet.
There's the two vertical lines down the screen, which an upgrade on the graphics driver did not address (but thanks for the suggestion Mike!), and copying and pasting has been wanky for some time now -- I highlight a section to copy it and it un-highlights itself, or tries to move the text instead of copy it, or the highlight only catches half of what I want to highlight, or it won't copy it the first or second time. Now today it froze up a couple of time on the internets, and my taskbar somehow got the box unchecked to automatically hide it, so it wouldn't move out of the way.
Yep, I hear the death march playing in the background. I really don't think I'm going to want to get a new laptop with Vista, so I'll probably be looking at one of the little emachines or whatever they call them that still run Vista. I don't think it'll be worth spending any money to see if this one's fixable when it's already 4 years old.
Or is there? Recommendations on an emachine brand or specs would be welcome. And then maybe this baby will just keep on limping along for a while yet.
