Hunt of the Laptop

My computer has been dying for the past three months or so. I've needed a new one desperately, but was never motivated to do anything about it. I hoped that it would hold together until the end of the semester, which it did, though I didn't trust the little machine to hold my files. I relied solely on my little flashdrive to get me through the semester and spent many hours in the UVA computer labs to write my lab reports.

I don't know what finally motivated me to get a new one, I guess I was done with being frustrated every time I started my computer (a process that took about 45 minutes) or opened a file (requiring about three minutes, ridiculous for opening a word document), or any other process. Everything took a long time. Worse, I couldn't trust it to save my documents and be able to open them later. When I realized that my laptop would not last for another full semester, I knew it was time to buy a new one.

I did some research online. A lot of research. So I knew what I was looking for, and I knew about how much I could expect to pay for it. Monday night I went on a little survey of the local stores that sell laptops, to check my top choices for picture quality, keyboard lay out and feel, weight, so on. I fell in love with one I saw at Best Buy, a little 14.1" HP. I planned to come back and buy it online direct, but it was actually cheaper at Best Buy.

It was tough to wait a full day once I knew what I wanted, but I managed to hold off until last night to buy my little guy. She is fast, light, beautiful.

It will be some time before I'm finally "moved in" to this laptop, but an external harddrive holds all the important things from the old laptop. Slowly but surely, I'll reorganize this computer. A fresh start will be nice.