Like I mentioned last week, both my desktop and Laptop had quit on me. I was without a system for almost the whole of last week, prompting me to revive my P3 system to atleast check my mails. But that is not the entire story, oddly it gets weirder and (maybe) funnier.

Since the story of each system is entertaining in itself I will start with my laptop:

Last week my laptop refused to boot, the attempts at reviving the system were mostly futile, leading me to start looking at picking up a new laptop. I was highly attracted to the new netbooks and considering my colleague had a Samsung NC10 for a while now, It was on top of my laptop list.

After looking around I decided to drop the idea of the netbooks with 10″ size. The small screen size was a huge hindrance to me, ofcourse I could have gotten used to the size but 12″ was simply perfect for me. Among the 12″ netbooks I found only the Samsung NC20 that seemed good and reasonable. Despite never seeing a single laptop in person I went ahead and booked it.

So on Thursday I contacted the dealer and he said he would confirm on Friday with me. On friday he requested me to pay an advance (Rs 1000) at the dealer, considering this was a new series of laptop he needed the assurance that I would buy it from him.

On saturday morning my colleagues and I decided that we wanted to have a look at the interiors of the old laptop. Within minutes we had the system taken apart and were looking at the problematic parts that caused the failure. My colleague wanted to try fixing the problem by changing the material of the heat sink. Since I had given up hope on the laptop I told him to go ahead and try it out. Guess what, it actually fixed a major part of the problem!

The system was not only booting well it was performing waaay better than it ever did before. Now I was in a dilemma, should i buy the new laptop with the old one working well?

After much speculation I asked the dealer to wait till monday. He was very worried that I would not buy the laptop and tried his best to convince me. Finally he agreed to wait till monday.

Sunday was spent in attempts to stress test my laptop. I did everything from heavy processing to rendering HD movies on a large screen. The system was working fine, better than it ever had. I slowly prepared myself to tell the dealer that I wasnt going to need that new system.

Late Sunday night, I watched the Indian cricket team choke against the English and get knocked out of the championship. In the despair I was about to go to sleep and decided to try putting my laptop to sleep, Little did I know that the laptop would never wake up again.

Monday morning I promptly called up the laptop sales man and said that I would pick up my new laptop in the evening.

Apparently I wasnt done yet… The new laptop had been delivered with a 80Gb Hard disk, when the offer clearly was for a 160Gb Hard disk. So now I waited for 2 hours as the dealer manually replaced the hard disk and later had it sent to get the software loaded into it. I could have ofcourse done the software loading myself but without a CD drive in the laptop I was helpless.

Finally late monday evening I had my new laptop. One of my two computer problems solved replaced :P

Ps: Owing to the length of the post, I will make another post about my desktop :P
PPs: Wow congratulate yourself you actually read the whole post :D