yep… it’s my laptop’s first birthday… she is one year old as of today, and still is the best laptop around the corner 
. i never even thought of getting myself a laptop in the first place… was thinking of buying a high end dekstop which would cost me about 80-90K or so… but then my father adviced me to think otherwise and after some long discussions i finally decided to buy a laptop. my father said he wouldn’t compromise on any detail to keep the cost down and this was enough for me 
… he asked me to search for the latest technology available at that time… it happened to be INTEL CENTRINO MOBILE TECHNOLOGY – a combination of INTEL M PROCESSOR, INTEL 855 CHIPSET AND INTEL PRO/WIRELESS 2200/2100 (IEEE 802.11 a/b/g)… he also asked me check out the deals in DELL, and told me that DELL has got the best offers and customer satisfaction…
and thats what i did… went to the DELL website and started customizing (this is the best part 
) my future laptop, INSPIRON 8600. i also had to but a licensed copy of Micsrosoft XP… the surprising part is that it works perfectly in my laptop but needs to be registered within 30 days in any other computer it is installed in. how do they do this? (hmm…)
- INTEL M 2.0 Ghz processor
- 60GB HDD (7200 rpm)
- 24x SAMSUNG CD-RW/DVD
- 128MB ATI RADEON 9600 PRO
- 512MB RAM
well these are the main things… rest of the details are very general… the laptop had been delivered to the house 2 days before i came. my parents didn’t open the package, waited for me to arrive… they knew what she meant to me 
… the laptop had been pre-programmed with some special DELL software which ran for the first time to get the user acquainted to the computer. the sad thing was that whoever did the formatting, etc. used up the entire hard disk for a single C drive in windows… so the first thing in my list was to change all these details and install LINUX (we had DS assignment under Jawahar sir for the winter break… hehe). but i didn’t realize that they forgot to send me all the drivers for my laptop. so i called them (their customer service is really good) and within 3 days i got my softwares…
after lots of installations, i finally gave my pc some rest (1 whole day i think)… another problem i thought would occur was the wlan configuration. all my friends’ wlan card drivers had to be installed first and then the card had to be inserted to make it work. sound ridiculous doesn’t it? but my card no problems of that sort… it picked up different signals in the neighbourhood… 3 of them secured and 1 of the remaining 2 was very strong… usually internet costs a minimum of $30 per month and here i was, enjoying the free internet … the next day i went to WALMART and bought HL2… got instantly hooked onto CS:S, the best game ever created . from that day onwards, i spent around 10hrs a day playing CS and nothing else…
my pc became a big hit (and still is !!!) after returning to college … my pc was the only one among my “gang” members which had THE video card (now revanth and rohith have a 256MB and 128MB respectively)… and so we got play lots of high end games which used to be a distant dream…
1 full year and she still hasn’t given me the slightest trouble… signs of an excellent pc eh? i still have lots more to do with her… she will be outdated in the next couple of years but i will manage until i graduate… and i think i will never part with her… HIGH FIDELITY…
feel sorry to end this post so quickly as there is a LOT to add but i am feeling very sleepy right now and it’s 4AM… i have to sleep for a good amount of time or i won’t be able to concentrate on the remaining 14 LOST episodes that krthi and i plan to complete by tonight
