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« Wanted: Visio Customers | Main | Westneat On The Storm » July 22, 2006Lightning Strikes TwiceI have apparently pissed off the Laptop Gods, because both (both!) of the machines I have with on the road are experiencing some big, big problems right now. It started with my Tablet. Yesterday morning, the little plastic tab that sits at the top of the screen and locks the top of the clamshell to the bottom - keeping the lid closed when the laptop is asleep - broke off. What this means, in practical terms, is that the lid of the laptop can no longer stay closed on its own, which forces me to shut the Tablet down completely in order to move it (if I put it to sleep, it will jostle in transit, the lid will open 1/8" of an inch, and Windows interprets that as the machine "waking up", and then spins up the machine in my shoulder bag). This pretty much destroys my productivity, because it means I have to set up and tear down my workspace every time I move. (What makes this worse is that this is merely the latest in a long line of progressively-annoying indignities - such as glacial performance, regular lock-ups, and sub-30-minute battery life - with the thing. The Tablet is old, and, thankfully, my replacement laptop, in all its wide-screen Core-Duo hotness, is already on order.) The second problem happened later in the evening, when my my Mac decided to do a repeat of its precursor's February 2005 performance and just, you know, forget it has a hard drive. One moment I'm cranking out some e-mail to Ferry Corsten; the next, the machine's seized, I'm rebooting, and then it's all flashing-question-mark, all the time. I'm optimistic that I'll be able to resuscitate when I'm back to Seattle, but in the meantime ... it's a big, shiny, aluminum brick. Sigh. Posted by Gavin Shearer at July 22, 2006 6:41 AM. Posted to Geek. CommentsYour laptops have decided you're working to hard, and they are protesting by taking a vacation... :-) Posted by: Marnie at July 26, 2006 8:27 AM Post a commentThanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out) (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.) |