Goodbye Sony Laptop #2
Posted by Stuart at 09:46 PM on October 05, 2005I was using my Sony Vaio laptop today for most of the morning and it started getting slower and slower as the day went on. I didn't think much of it, until tonight a familiar click, click, click sound started coming from it.
Uh oh.
It was the same sounds that my first Sony Vaio made 2 years ago before the hard drive crashed once and for all. Sure enough, after about 30 minutes of clicking, I got the blue screen of death. I rebooted and it clicked for 10 minutes before the blue screen came back. I rebooted and got another 2 minutes of clicking. I rebooted and now all I get is click, click, click, "Operating System can not be found".
Sigh.
Luckily I have been much better about backing things up this time, using my handy portable hard drive also known as an iPod. And luckily I bought a Mac Mini the last time I was in the U.S., which has a back up of the iPod.
So now I am Window-less. It's really not that bad, since I've been using the Mac Mini almost exclusively for the last couple of months. In fact, the only thing that I haven't been able to do on the Mac is video chat on Yahoo or MSN Messenger. So I guess that video chat with Mom and Dad this morning will be the last one for a long while.
I have been meaning to mention that I've been loving my new Mac. It's a bit slow at times, but I knew I was buying a slow machine to start off with. The price was low enough for a little experiment. Luckily, the experiment worked out great. I'm not so sad to be "stuck" with only a Mac machine.
I am a little bit annoyed with the Sony Vaio though. I think a hard drive should last a little more than two years. In any case, I don't think I will be dropping another 100,000 baht (US$2,500) on a new Sony laptop any time soon.
