IT for Family


My father gave me his laptop to look into

It’s an old gateway, 1.4 Ghz, Pentium 4, 256 RAM and it doesn’t even have a built-in wireless, I remember last time I had to go buy him a card. Yeah not to forget a dead battery that won’t even charge!

So for me to fix his laptop, of course I need Internet connection and since I can’t connect through the magical radio waves from the comfort of my room I needed to take the whole thing and sit within the cable reach to the DSL modem

If you have a laptop that you use for work, why give it to kids, every game ever existed is installed and along with it all the web toolbars out there!!! Everything runs at start up. Virus definition outdated. Windows update never installed anything. Total mess

As I was scanning the 30 GB space, it took 3 hours!! Of course who would blame it! And then it hit me and I remembered, I had a RAM chip in my handbag somewhere ;)

Well how it got into my handbag that’s another story, but I plugged it in and the speed doubled

He was asking me about buying a new laptop and I told him what he used it for and then he said “What about this air one, I heard about MAC air”

“Ouch!!!”

Finally I am going for MAC hunting, though not for me but for dad, nevertheless, it is exciting. I’ll list all the stores that sell the MAC goods and we’ll schedule the shopping later :D

  1. #1 by Maryam on August 11, 2008 - 7:25 PM

    I believe the laptop will be the kids’ new toy. He’ll be upgrading alright, to a MAC ;)

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