November 18, 2005
Rest in peace, my good old Vaio
So I trashed my computer. Whatever excuses there may be (up since 3 am, totally exhausted with colicky baby and husband in Kosovo, post-pregnancy clumsiness, etc.), the truth is, I shouldn't have had that cup of coffee in my hands. Because I dropped it. Onto the laptop. Which then promptly died. Like D-I-E-D, died. Totally dead.
It's at the repair shop, where they will try to retrieve at least my data. Kid's pix since April. iTunes Music. Documents. The works.
They were nice enough to hook up Doug's old, old, old laptop to the Internet, so I'm not out of touch. You wouldn't believe how isolated you feel when the Internet is down. Maybe more so when your husband is traveling. So, I'm back online. And thinking about a new computer. I'm thinking a desktop this time. We're just really bad spillers and with a desktop the risk isn't so great. Any suggestions?
Posted by claudia at November 18, 2005 11:33 AMHi, liebe Grüße und morgen wird ein besserer Tag :-) Heike
Posted by: Heike at November 18, 2005 03:13 PMRIP. It served you well. The only thing -- couldn't it have died a couple of weeks ago, when Doug was here? That would've made your getting a new computer somewhat easier.
Posted by: Natalie at November 18, 2005 05:08 PMOuch. I hope you don't lose anything too valuable. I once spilled a glass of water on my computer while working on my thesis and lost a lot of time and effort. Good luck!
Cheers,
Mike
The data is almost certainly okay; the hard drive is a sealed unit. (Its not a big deal, but in the future, its not a terrible idea to yank the drive as soon as possible after something like that, just in case. I say this as a veteran of three laptops in as many years --Dell's no-questions-asked warrenty is a wonderous thing)
Posted by: James Angove at November 18, 2005 10:47 PMKeyboards are quite resistant. You could have taken the battery out and leave it to dry. After it had dried it might very well function again.
Posted by: Wim at May 19, 2006 02:19 PM