So my computer has started to make whining noises whenever I turn in on. I took it to the computer guy we have around here, but all he could do was shake his head and say "old". Well tell me something I don't know....
This computer has been with me for the past 5 years, which means that in computer-land its about 85--a good long life for a computer these days. Recently, however, it has definitely begun showing its age. First it was the slow processing time, no matter how many times I defrag the hard drive or how much programs I remove. Then it was the errors. Every once in a while my screen has a seizure and I have to do a hard reboot to get it to work properly again. The battery threw a hissy fit at being plugged in to a Korean outlet and will now only hold a charge for 30 minutes. And now we have the whining noise that makes it very difficult to hold a conversation with anyone without getting strange background noises and is just generally very annoying.
In short, though I was trying to hold out for a new computer until next year when I (hopefully) head off to grad school), it looks like my ajuma computer is not going to make it that long. This worries me because I know the price of getting a computer in Korea (definitely not to my taste) and I know how much they will charge me to ship one in. This means that my only real hope of getting a new computer comes at the beginning of December, when I am home for my "holiday" vacation. Of course, this trip just had to come in December, right as I am trying to use my credit cards to pay for graduate school application fees and Christmas presents for people. I guess all I can do is hope that people send money for Christmas/my birthday and that it comes soon enough that I can fix this problem before it starts. Otherwise, you will definitely be seeing a lot less of me. :(
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My PC (ca. 2005) died recently, but I revived it with a new hard drive. I also increased my RAM from 524MB to 1GB, so it is running like new right now, maybe even better than it used to. Hardware was about 100 smackers so it was definitely cheaper than a new computer... I just can't do anything fancy shmancy with it, like edit video or play games... but I don't need to, so I'm hoping it will last me another 5 years. :-)
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