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so i think i've sunk to a new low with my laptop today. the LCD screen is now held on by one rickety connector hinge and…. generic red duct tape. this damn thing is starting to look more like a 1st year art students 'technology' themed sculpture then a working machine.

and that's the thing! it -still- works! the plastic surrounding the keyboard is cracked so the keyboard lifts up when you type, the power button only works based on some random probability equation only IT knows , the fan is tempermental and shuts down overheating the machine if there's say a battery inside (i think the fan and the battery have some sort of personal issues they need to see a shrink for), it only works if plugged into the wall, hence defeating the portable part of the equation (i think the laptop has seperation issues), the screen no longer closes (duct tape makes that difficult) there's a yellow line running down the middle of the screen (i tend to miss a lot of symbols such as i and l and ! and . etc etc...) . it emmits the high pitched whine of the damned if it's moved from it's perch, the speakers crackle, OH and i took it apart while stoned once... � (don't ask how it's come to this.. even -i- don't know now...)

but it's still FINE... *blinks*

either i'm the best or the worst add campagne for a sony VAIO �anyone could ever wish for.

what's YOUR machine held together with? the most interesting i've seen was coat hangers and christmas lights. anyone going the ghetto route for hardware here? ;)

(Edited by Bias at 1:20 am on Mar. 25, 2003)

By Bias at Mar 25, 2003, 1:18 AM | 0
that wouldn't have been my christmas lights and coat hanger PC, would it? wish I still had those pics :( owell
By TAFKAR at Mar 25, 2003, 2:43 PM | 0
SONY VAIO?!
SONY VAIO?!
Oh my, Bias. Seems like we're both having the same problems, then.
Yes, my little Vaio also has lost any form of portability (as you so nicely put it, has seperation issues). What's more, I get that wonderfully cryptic blue screen of death at random intervals - flashing just fast enough for me to read "BEGINNING DUMP OF PHYSICAL MEMORY" before it crashes. Fun fun.
Also, you know the internal modem it has? Yea, well, mine one day…disappeared. So now I connect through a 'creditcard modem' or whatever in the PCMCIA slot.

Apparently this model got recalled to Japan wayyy back when for some 'display driver and battery connection' problems. Yesh. I had to find out from a friend, of course.
Sony VAIO users unite and commiserate !D

Yet....I stuck Sobe stickers all over the back of mine and somehow I can't part with it now. *kisses the screen*  

By Lena at Mar 28, 2003, 8:22 AM | 0
yep battery problems gallore!

god…. was there a viao produced that HASN'T had horrible problems? my mothers was bought a week after mine was, same model and her's is limping along on it's last legs as well...

oh add the DVD drive not opening and breaking down (the whole reason i had to take it apart...) to the list of 'things go bad now' plus my E key is tmpermental. i have to beat it.

what model is yours? *peels away the duct tape* mines a PCG-F350.

*pets the laptop lovingly*

By Bias at Mar 29, 2003, 12:56 AM | 0
Hallo jens.

I once had an old computer, originally a… 260 MhZ, I beleive, that my dear old dad overclocked to 420 or some number in that general direction. �Eight lovely droning cooling fans and the fastest loading time I can remember. �Of course, now it's obsolete, but I still remember having my personal room computer vent. �Ah, the old days...

(Edited by Razmo at 11:51 pm on Mar. 29, 2003)

By Razmo at Mar 29, 2003, 9:50 PM | 0
my baby is a PCG-SR7K
See, the '7K' bit almost makes it look uber-futuristic and cutting-edge and the like. But it's really not.
And ah yes…the sticky keys. Mine is the space bar. But that could, admittedly, be due to my oreo addiction...
By Lena at Mar 30, 2003, 3:01 PM | 0
Wow, and I thought that my laptop was bad. Yes, seperation issues, not to mention that it was crappy in the first place. I used to have an HP something or other, and it was a pretty nice machine, but a friend dropped it and broke the screen, so I got it replaced under warranty.

This one, a compaq, always had the crackling speakers issue, and the seperation issues were not far behind. I tried to rehabilitate my NiCD battery by charging it for three hours and then letting it use up it's 10 seconds of power… And repeating the process... No such luck.

A friend of mine has a toshiba satillite... It seems to be doing okay, but as far as I know, every brand of laptop has these issues. Are they all that unreliable?

By Damus at Apr 1, 2003, 6:21 PM | 0
Thought id bring this topic back up, with a little change.

I dont really care if you have the most fucked up computer in the world, im just curious to the machines that -everyone- is using, regardless if its fucked.

And yes, i am the friend Damus was talking about with the Toshiba, so i'll start.

Its a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600, designed for Windows 98 but has run Red Hat 9, (windows 98 of course), and now since that went to hell it's running Windows XP Pro…which is actually bearing pretty well for all the shit everyone says about it. 30 gig hard drive, partitioned down the middle so i have a half for just music. 256 mb of RAM and one mean machine fan that sprays out nice warm air out of the side any time i want it.(i usually have fun just waving the cursor around everywhere REALLY fast to get the air flowing. Great for cold winter days.)

I have this stupid greenish line that runs down the middle of the screen, a little to the left. I also miss little things like ! l i and 1 occasionally. It has this tempermental power socket thing that calls for the placing of a heavy novel on top of the cord right where it enters the computer. Big pain. As far as everything else wrong with it, i was once trying to clean out dog hair and random grossness out from under all the keys and i broke one of those stupid little plastic gadgets that make the world go round.

This was on the "J" key, so i traded it with the not-so-popular Page Up key which I rarely use at the moment.

All things considered it serves me pretty well, and im always up to spending time with her. Im thinking of maybe  going with some RAM upgrades and maybe a processor(oh yeah, Pentium III) upgrade after i decide whether this line is annoying enough to be worth fixing.

[:EDIT:] My baby: http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reviews/3323/1

(Edited by Sidd at 12:12 pm on Feb. 7, 2004)

By Sidd at Feb 7, 2004, 10:49 AM | 0
laptops?  ok I'm just stepping into that century, in fact next week I'm ordering an alienware area 51. 128mb radeon graphics card, p4 2.8  built in 802.11   dvd/rw (foorgot the speed, but painfully slow i'm sure)  with just over a gig of ram.  yes I know alienware stuff is overpriced, but it's time to splurge, I can't wait to see how well the graphics card performs on a laptop, plus it uses the large desktop proc.  wierd… but easier to upgrade than most laptops me thinks.   I can't frickin wait!

:rubs his hands toghter with an evil grin on his face.

I presently use a frankenstein desktop homemade with a kinda wierd/kinda cool  audi xp case, one 80gb hard drive with no partitions (don't ask)  amd athalon 1.4  extasy geforce 4 64mb video card, crappy on-board audio.  and a measily 256mb of ram which I am always taxing by downloading hundreds of megabites of stuff at a time, while playing sd, while surfing, while watching anime.  and whatever else I can find to do at the same time.  

By Jotun at Feb 7, 2004, 11:31 AM | 0
I have a beautiful hand-me-down desk top with an annoying as hell huge monitor.  It's an HP pavillion with parts from all sorts of places.  The poor thing has a 13 gig hard drive, and I updated it to a 256 MB RAM *frowns*  At one point, the whole thing crapped out and I had to uninstall the OS, during which it crapped out again… So.. After hitting it a few times and that not working ;) I took it into my school and let the tech students play with it.  As a result, the computer is  registered to the school and they are probably watching me type this as we ..type..  

Anyways.. My keyboard has hardly any keys left on it. I've lovingly worn them all off, and there is even a dent in a few of them.  It makes it hard to type one handed.  I'm running Microsoft XP Home edition. Its not that bad, just takes a lot of memory, hence why I had to get more RAM.  My computer has this annoying habit of saying that the virtual memory is to low when its not doing anything.  I have decent speakers though.. that's about it.  And I love my keyboard.  My dad gave me a new one, and I said I didn't want it.  The look I got was really funny.. coming from the man that gets a new mouse and keyboard every few months.

My house is full of old computer and computer parts, we have 2 laptops that hardly work, and several keyboards, mice, and a monitor.  And I'll be getting a laptop before I go to college, so.. this one will be added to the pile of obsoleteness.

By Lillith at Feb 7, 2004, 1:19 PM | 0
oh, yeah I forgot the saving grace of my desktop….
*huge grin*

the 20" sony trinatron flat screen monitor.

speaking of flat screens, does anyone else get pissed off when people confuse flat screens, and flat pannels?  I do, just a silly pet peeve I guess...
*shrug*

By Jotun at Feb 7, 2004, 11:56 PM | 0
I'm currently running a:

Pentium 2.4Ghz
1Gig DDR RAM.
10/100 Ethernet Adaptor
4x DVDR
GeForce4 Ti4200 with AGP8x
19" Monitor.

Eh, that's about it, it's a kind of beast, hasn't given me that

And on my last computer, my alphabet keys had nothing written on them I typed that much, and that fast. I also burnt -through- my n key, so you could see through it.

By Lujan at Feb 8, 2004, 4:16 AM | 0
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