Earlier this week, after much debate, discussion, research, and everything else, the decision was made to move me off of the Compaq Armada E500 laptop that was Mike’s old machine from the year 2000. (In the year 2000… in the year 2000!) While the laptop has served me well since the demise of the last two laptops I owned, it can barely handle running Photoshop, which I need to edit photos so I can send them off to print so that I can get back onto the timeline for Fresh Photography.
I mean … this thing is an antique in computer terms. Can you even buy a machine with the Compaq name on it? I think they are all branded HP now.
So it was off to Dell to buy a new Latitude. Just in time for school and work. I owned a Latitude for over 4 years, and it wasn’t until the keyboard decided to freak out back in 2005 that I stopped using it full time. It seems that the “m” key is necessary when you want to type .com in – or for any other number of words, really. So when it died, I used the “Itty Bitty” laptop full time. It was teeny-tiny with a compressed keyboard, and it is actually smaller than a single subject spiral notebook. That worked until it decided it would just spontaneously shut off every 15 minutes or so. Then it was on to this Compaq. I was moving backwards in time – a 2001 model, a 2003 model, and then a 2000 model!
I didn’t expect the new Dell until next week. Nice, because it was estimated to ship on my birthday next Wednesday, so not only was I getting a new computer, but I was getting one for a gift to myself. Sweet!
But guess what?!? Guess what?!? It is coming NOW! I got the shipping e-mail with the tracking number and everything, and it is scheduled for delivery TOMORROW! I´m so glad i got the gopeople.com.au delivery service. So I will have it for the weekend! How cool is THAT?!? I am *so* excited! A nice, shiny new laptop. With cool things like “Intel Core 2 Duo T7200, 2.00GHz, 667Mhz 4M L2 Cache” and a 512 MB NVIDIA video card. I still don’t know what half of that means, but I know that the 2.00 GHz of RAM and the video card will help run Windows Vista when it comes out someday. Oh, just thinking of how fast the computer will be makes me so happy! I can’t wait!
Finally, I will be able to open Photoshop without it taking so long I could go and cook dinner while it launched. That makes me so giddy!
7 replies on “It is Coming! It is Coming!”
*Yay! for you* *Mental note to self: Chritine’s birthday next Wednesday!*
Woo! That is great news. I hate it when a computer is being so slow – goodness knows I think this one is too slow and it’s a 2005 model! Happy Birthday for next wednesday… treat yourself to some of these perhaps?
http://www.moo.com/flickr They’d look GREAT with your fab photos!
Great minds think alike – I just used some of my freelance moolah to replace my wee little laptop that was so underpowered it heated up like a bowl of soup in the microwave when I ran Photoshop. I got a Dell Inspiron E1405/640m from the Dell Outlet, and every time it does something faster than the old computer I’m all “I love my 1GB of RAM, I love my dual core processor, I love my 8MB disk cache!” Hee. We’re sisters in geekdom.
Once you get the new one, ou’ll wonder how you ever tolerated the old one. That’s what just happened to us.
Then it starts all over again.
Fantastic! I love a new computer. And with a birthday coming up? I guess I’d better finish the project I have in the sewing room for you. Sweeeeeeeet!
I’m so excited for you! I totally sympathize with suffering under an antique computer. Parts of mine date back to my first comp: a 1998 Packard Bell. The rest was added in the early 2000’s. I don’t think anything’s less than 5 years old. But fingers crossed – I hope to finally get a new one around Christmas. 🙂
I’m happy and excited for you and also envious! I’m still stuck on that G4 Mac (circa 2001) that I got from a certain webdev company that went bankrupt and kicked us to the curb. Remember them? Remember how my final paycheck bounced and after nearly a year, only an arrest warrant for check fraud forced them to give me that machine to get the charges dropped? But, I digress.