New technologies, old shoes, new lifestyle, old blues
New technologies. The office assigned me a new laptop, upgrading me from my desktop computer to a sleek Compaq Presario V3000. The computer, while incredibly sexy, is terribly inefficient, thanks, I’m told, to its turtle-slow Windows Vista OS. I therefore bask in the sexiness of its ultrahot Altec Lansing speakers and shiny black exteriors while waiting five minutes for it to boot, ten minutes to launch Windows Media Player, and fifteen minutes for the OpenOffice Writer to start up.
To go with the laptop, I upgraded the hot pink (U)Nano - the 1GB Chinese-made Nano imitation mp4 player I bought for Cathy - to a 2GB one made by CD-R King. With twice the memory and its sleek black exteriors, it’s certainly an improvement. Matching these two new tech toys with my black CD-R King headphones, my black Nokia 6020, even my black 64-oz. drinking bottle (for the 8 8-oz glasses of water diet requirement!), all color has literally disappeared from my life.
Old shoes. Ironically, as I start to look the part of a hot new lead for the hot new phase of the company, I sport a pair of ancient Reebok tennis shoes whose seams above the laces have literally torn open. I therefore spoke to my brother-in-law to lend me a pair of shoes so I could retire my geriatric footwear, and today is now Day Two of my ancient K-Swiss rubber shoes. Strangely, these are probably the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever worn. I wonder how a brand-new pair would feel.
New lifestyle, old blues. It’s been almost two weeks since I’ve been to the gym, and I feel my old weight and lifestyle starting to creep up on me. Today alone, I wolfed down a siopao, two candy bars, a can of diet soda, and two packs of nuts. And that was outside of lunch. I NEED TO GO BACK TO THE GYM ,STAT.
I luuuuuv your new laptop! Pero oo nga, bakit ganun, parang syang turtle mag load, wahahaha! Ei maybe we can use another OS (Windows XP na lang kaya?) so it can run faster. Kung ako yan, di ko matitiis ang ganyan kabagal hehehe!
Pero congrats pa din! I luv it! It’s my laptop of choice din! Well, the HP one actually, hindi ung presario, pero basta Compaq, sleek ang design. Perfect.
You deserve it, Sir Dean!
haha, dami nun takaw! so, what happened to Nano? pinakita mo yun nung blog parteeh..hehe
I’m downgrading my Vista to XP (check http://www.pinkseo.info haha nagplug pa) not only because it’s uber-slow, it’s got a lot of bugs too!! Hi sir ganns
[...] to buy a new gadget). The HP Pavilion laptop looks veeeerry tempting (Congratulations to Ganns who just got his Compaq Presario laptop by the way! ), and I hope I don’t fall into this kind of [...]
ganns,
we actually have the same model but I’m running under windows XP. Perhaps you should downgrade.
I worked for a call center for a while and we handle notebooks running under Windows Vista. Ang daming reklamo, daming bugs.
I actually spoke to our office tech support, and they said the Vista came bundled with the package. To uninstall it would be a waste of the money (plus installing a new licensed XP would be additional cost).
Their solution? A purchase of an additional 512MB of memory to help the laptop deal with the load. Sounds good to me! Praise God!
Bakit hindi na lng dalawang OS gamitin mo? diba pde naman yun? Para may Vista ka na, may XP ka pa…. Sayang kasi ang Vista kung tanggalin mo… Balak ko rin bumili ng laptp kya lang yun lng din problema ko, puro vista na lahat ng bagong labas, talagang pinagpipilitan na sa mga customers ang Vista OS…
Hello, Xander! Well, naayos naman siya because we just bought additional memory. I’m not a techie; I don’t know anything about double OSs.
Thanks for passing by!