Tuesday, May 09, 2006

An open letter to Dell

FUCK YOU!!!!

Your piece of crap computers are intentionally designed to last for less than three years, and your evil assembly minions in Malaysia installed malicious code three years ago that caused my Dell Inspiron 500m to crash and die at the most inconvenient moment, like when I am writing the LAST question to my LAST final that happens to be a painful 24 hour take home exam.

Fortunately for me, I learned from my years in a country where just about everything is broken to take precautions. I previously backed up the first two questions onto webspace and only lost about a page and a half of work. Still, that is about an hour and a half worth of crap that must be re-shat.

I am extremely bitter that your fucking piece of shit $1500 "computer" crashed on me and forced me to come to the law school at 11 PM and spend the wee hours in the clinic. I am also bitter that many of my files from this past semester are probably irreparably lost. I may try to salvage the hard drive, but things don't look good when you are repeatedly told to press Ctr+Alt+Delete to reboot. The money that I would have to spend on a new computer will instead be spent hunting down the previously mentioned Malaysia assembly minions in Malaysia this August, and when I get a job and a paycheck I will be shopping for an iBook.

For my suffering this evening, I should get at least an A- on my exam. And you know what? I am DONE with law school.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

ouch! so glad its over! i'm convinced no brand is invincible. both mine and divisadero's macs screwed up.
teeny

blogazon said...

Hmmm. So do you think the more expensive Macs are better than PCs? The days of my student discount are limited.

Anonymous said...

oh no. fuck YOU for finishing early.

and yes, the way of the mac is mo betta. may i direct your attention to: http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/?ilife_medium#. clearly, the apple dude is hotter. enough said.

Anonymous said...

Just make sure you are as bitchy, if not moreso, when your bitter ass lands in Seattle in two days. I, in turn, will do my part to elevate your ire to levels unheard in these parts.

I have an iBook G4. I don't know nothing about computers, but I've had it a year and I'm pretty sure it will break in the next few months. If it's made by the minions who make the POS ipod, it's a sureshot. Thus far, I have been able to check people.com every hour on the hour so I can't complain.

Anonymous said...

oh ouch! congrats on surviving and finishing the exam, tho. good luck finding a laptop that won't fizzle on ya...I think I've heard horror stories about every brand at this point. However, my trusty thinkpad (2 of them) has done me right for the last 7 years. aside from a crack or 2 in the casing (may have something to do with my dropping it), no breakdowns...for the price that ibm/lenovo charges, it had better not break down anytime soon either

-ec

Probative said...

Hey, it makes for a great story. It is as if Law School is that crazy horror movie killer that somehow comes back to life dispite having been killed like 10 times already.

Got a job? More to do. Took a test? Take another. Took your last one? Now go get ready for the Bar! I am telling you, its Jason on crack.