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Made a decision
So, in conversation with a friend and my parents last night, I came to the conclusion that the stress of not knowing whether my laptop will start every day and not knowing what will go wrong this time (definitely the VGA connector on the lappie, the external monitor works fine connected to another computer), I've decided that it's time.
In order to make sure that someone is in the house to accept the order, I'll won't be ordering anything until the weekend. But I've picked out my system on the Dell site and I just need to finish the order.
My laptop is making such a determined effort to die. I can't turn it on anymore without a minor panic attack and there is always something. I'm suspecting that a certain amount of it (the hard-drive making beepy noises when it's joggled, the VGA connector, the heat, the massive slow-down to the USB ports) is hardware and signs that it's going to have an unrecoverable hissy fit soon. The Mcafee stuff may be software, but I could equally be looking at something like bad sectors on the hard drive.
So it's time. I'm working on the family computer right now and it's amazing how easy and smooth the experience is. That's what has decided me.
Thankfully I made this decision before my migraine overtook me last night and I'm happy with that decision now, after sleeping most of the morning away in a darkened room. It's the right thing to do and will at least mean that one source of stress in my life goes away.
Truth is, the system that I plan to buy is something that I can buy without dipping into the iPad fund. I've got plenty of savings and I'm not buying an over-the-top system because I don't need one anymore. However, I do need something reliable.
Apart from anything else, right now I can't work from home because my laptop doesn't like to be on for more than an hour before it throws some kind of wobbly. That's not exactly helpful - what if I get sick again? What will happen when the roads are too bad to drive?
Yup, I can find lots of justifications for this. So, in a couple of weeks there will be a pretty new computer in my house. Until then, I'll gingerly turn on my laptop every couple of days and do most of my computer stuff on this computer whenever my father isn't using it.
In order to make sure that someone is in the house to accept the order, I'll won't be ordering anything until the weekend. But I've picked out my system on the Dell site and I just need to finish the order.
My laptop is making such a determined effort to die. I can't turn it on anymore without a minor panic attack and there is always something. I'm suspecting that a certain amount of it (the hard-drive making beepy noises when it's joggled, the VGA connector, the heat, the massive slow-down to the USB ports) is hardware and signs that it's going to have an unrecoverable hissy fit soon. The Mcafee stuff may be software, but I could equally be looking at something like bad sectors on the hard drive.
So it's time. I'm working on the family computer right now and it's amazing how easy and smooth the experience is. That's what has decided me.
Thankfully I made this decision before my migraine overtook me last night and I'm happy with that decision now, after sleeping most of the morning away in a darkened room. It's the right thing to do and will at least mean that one source of stress in my life goes away.
Truth is, the system that I plan to buy is something that I can buy without dipping into the iPad fund. I've got plenty of savings and I'm not buying an over-the-top system because I don't need one anymore. However, I do need something reliable.
Apart from anything else, right now I can't work from home because my laptop doesn't like to be on for more than an hour before it throws some kind of wobbly. That's not exactly helpful - what if I get sick again? What will happen when the roads are too bad to drive?
Yup, I can find lots of justifications for this. So, in a couple of weeks there will be a pretty new computer in my house. Until then, I'll gingerly turn on my laptop every couple of days and do most of my computer stuff on this computer whenever my father isn't using it.