azurelunatic | (no subject)

Ugh... that sounds like a Compaq to me.

Nah, it's a Dell after four years of use, abuse, cat hair, *sodaspew*, and one year of my ex-fiancé.

I've had good luck with Compaqs, actually.

You've had good luck w/ Compaqs? Wow :)

Cat hair is a problem for you, too? One thing that i'm glad about with this laptop is that I can close it and keep the cat hair off, then store it so it probably won't get hair in/on it.

I liked my Dell when I had it, but Dell's on my shitlist w/ a bullet. The laptop i'm talking to you from now is an HP, and it was worth waiting a decade for.

The bulk of my experience with Compaqs is with some older models -- a little portable one that Dad owned back in the '80s (where "portable" meant "today we'd put wheels on it and call it a suitcase") and some pre-owned desktop ones that chugged along solidly.

Really? That's cool.... lol my experience as far as Compaqs are concerned were the 10 year old ones in the schools... it was a travesty. Of course, a 10 year old computer... esp. in a school, is not gonna' exactly be in the best condition anyway.... they were like something out of a bad B-movie :)

!!!!!! Hell, Dad's well-maintained Gateway 2000 (vintage 1994) is a nightmare, and it's been taken decent care of, except for the part where Mama never defrags.

Oh man, i'm a bear about that kind of thing. I always gotta' defrag and "Disc Cleanup" every so often. Nortons, Ad-Aware, Spyware Doctor, and Spybot: Search and Destroy are all run regularly.

Noone in this family knows shit about computers but me. No one besides me ran any time of defrag or cleanp or adware program on the desktop, and it was fucked up as a result. I didn't know about SD and S: S&D until about 2 months ago... the desktop was at a standstill, and I downloaded those 2 programs, and turns out I had 1,400 "infections" on the machine. I got rid of them, the desktop's speed doubled, and now I know that Nortons ain't perfect.

This laptop, however, is all mine, and the cretins will not touch it (and if they do, they won't get into it because it's locked. Can't be too careful.)

I haven't met Spyware Doctor yet. Is it good?

It is! It picked up those 1,400 'infections' :) You can find it here at Download.com :)

I'll have to definitely check that out, then. *downloads*

I hear ya... it's good shit.

o hai.

how did i get here i'm not good with computers

:D

(whose name is that and where's it from?)

(It was

whitaker's caption on the Staff page for the longest time, I'm not sure where it came from before that.)