Laptop Saga

I am currently blogging from my living room couch on my BRAND spanking new MacBook! My conversion to Mac has taken quite some time... Dad's office uses Mac's so I was always somewhat well-versed with the basic/standard features, but my PC journey began in 9th grade.

Our (small) high school was wireless and provided student discounts for Dell laptops. Starting freshman year of high school I took notes, researched online, wrote and printed papers from my trusty PC. Because it was a fledgling program, our school offered spectacular warrantees and break-down assistance. We even had our original motherboards replaced in a group-wide upgrade. 

After four years of PC laptop, my college computer choice was easy. My original high school laptop suffered an unfortunate beer-related accident in college, so I bought the newer version of the exact same computer. This lasted me through college (with some face-lifts here and there). After college I taught for a year and was supplied a laptop by the school (hooray alma mater!). 

My PC survived the move from TX to CA... this is where the troubles began. I noticed one day that my laptop was getting hot... not in the good way. After an hour or so, the entire bottom of my laptop would be about 70 or 80 degrees F... I suppose the fan wasn't working properly so the mechanism wasn't cooling. Dell addressed this problem by taking my old computer and sending me a new/old (read: refurbished) laptop. Funny thing is... new laptop had the exact same problem!

So... I'm sitting in class the very first week of law school and my poor laptop overheats, triggering THE LOUDEST internal fan I've ever heard. I'm serious, it sounded like a vacuum cleaner on my desk. The fan cools down my lappy... but it overheats again a few minutes later.  I prop one side of the laptop up on my textbook to allow air to circulate underneath, so now I'm typing sideways on a freakish vacuum-computer, still trying to pay attention to the professor. 

The guy sitting next to me laughed and showed me his sleek little Mac - with a wave of his fingers and a few clicks he opened and promptly sorted (!) about twenty different windows. My PC next to his Mac was like WALL-E next to EVE... though I was rooting for WALL-E, I don't think I would trust him with my Legal Writing memorandum or Civil Procedure final exam!

Last night I picked up the husband from the airport (finally! He's been gone a full week!). He told me he had a surprise for me (wouldn't tell me what it was... grr... I hate surprises that are actually surprises) and he took me to the Mac store. Now I am the proud owner of a normal-temperature sleek little EVE computer, and he is the proud owner of a free IPOD touch. That's my husband... thoughtful, thrifty and somewhat self-serving.

C'est amour!

K