A new laptop after all

Oct 13, 2006

I’ve been having hardware problems for some time; and day before yesterday my Toshiba laptop’s hard disk crashed just seconds after I’d taken important backups. When you’ve been using your laptop or computer for a few years, you can detect their subtle nuances. So as soon as something told me that my hard disk was about to crash, I started moving my files to my PC. Just when I had backed up the life-saving files (all the content writing projects I’ve done so far, my client’s PHP files, the mp3 songs my 15-month-old daughter loves and our family photo archives) and I was about to backup “disposable” files the laptop stopped responding and after that it never did even after I had tried installing everything from the original disk.

I’ll need to send my Toshiba laptop to their service center, but the last time I submitted my laptop they took almost a month to give it back. So we thought it was high time we got an extra one. My initial choice was Lenovo, but their response was quite lousy and finally when they contacted me they didn’t have the model in stock despite displaying it on their website prominently. After wasting an entire day calling various unresponsive or clueless retailers I decided to contact HP and they delivered me a laptop of my choice in less than 24 hours.

I’ve done lots of projects on my Toshiba laptop but it had begun to become a hindrance by not allowing me to run more than one applications simultaneously. My word processor would take ages to load if I kept Yahoo messenger or Skype running. This problem is not there on the new laptop. Almost all chat software is running and I’m working comfortably.

I hope this way I can keep in touch with more people. Already a client just called me randomly using Skype and I talked to her immediately. Previously I had to give them some time and then log in at that time.