Broken Switch

My Dell laptop is right at two years old and is starting to disintegrate on me. The sound only works if I plug a jack into it, the forward slash key only works if you press the top-right corner and the whole she-bang is getting bogged down because of my inability to reformat the bastard. Thank you, Dell, for refusing to send me a backup disk and putting a hidden partition on the machine without asking me first.

I really want to get a Mac or MacBook Pro, but I would feel rather irresponsible getting a new machine after only two years.

Comments and conversations on this post

  1. andy

    “I would feel rather irresponsible getting a new machine after only two years.”

    Don’t feel that way. Just buy a new machine if you can afford it. It’s been my experience with electronic gizmos that they WILL break. It’s a hidden cost .

  2. patrick

    Well, you could have bought a mac in the first place ;)
    Seriously, they do last longer. Both my laptop (2 yrs old) and Genevieve’s (4 yrs old) are still going strong with no problems.

  3. Adam Harvey

    The only reason I didn’t get a Mac last time was because I couldn’t play my old video games on it. Now that Macs use Intel chips, that’s no longer a problem.