I was without my laptop for almost a week and have been catching up by surfing the web for the past four hours. The screen on my MacBook Pro suddenly got these weird scratch like marks on it and it needed to be replaced. During that time, I used Tom’s laptop which absolutely drove me crazy. Now, it wasn’t because of the whole I’m a Mac user and just CAN’T stand using PC’s mentality because I frequently use PC’s when I’m in school. But it was the whole This computer runs so slow because a million liquids have been spilled on it and I’m not sure how it’s even functioning thing that bothered me about using it. It took me at least 3x longer to do my daily rounds online, which I had to cut down to email, school email, facebook, and bank account check. And come on, I do not have an extra 10 minutes in my day to be messing around with waiting for webpages to load.
But, I was grateful for even having a computer to use. When I first started using it, I asked Tom what his password was to logon and he told me I wouldn’t need it because you only need it if it restarts or is shut down. Okay, not a problem. Until I go to transfer some money from my bank account to pay for my hair cut, and surprise the computer restarted. Of course, he didn’t have his cell phone on him and I could not guess his password for the life of me. I was freaking out (because obviously my hair is freak out worthy) and wasn’t sure what to do. Then I thought of his Wii. Let me tell you, I was complaining about things taking me longer to do on his PC? It took even LONGER to do on the Wii. With no keyboard I had to point the mouse at each letter and login to a million accounts (okay not really) to get authorization codes because I was using a different computer and all of that fun stuff.
His response when I told him I had to use the Wii to get online? You could have used my XBox instead. Because yeah, that’s so much better.
Haha, I really love the funny tone of this post. Computers are a really complicated thing. You’re always more comfortable on your own machine than on anybody else’s. Again, it’s not the Mac vs. PC thing, it’s just that we spend a lot more time with our own computer than with somebody else’s. And then we’re scared that something might go wrong, so we are extra cautious on somebody else’s computer so we don’t end up clicking the wrong icon, the wrong link and/or changing some settings. Even the keyboards! I’m incapable of typing as fast on my friend’s keyboard as I can on my keyboard even though the computers are of the same company and the keyboards have the exact same layouts! I have never been able to figure out why this happens. Maybe it’s just in the head. Passwords are very annoying. I always use two accounts, one for me, which is password protected and one for anybody else who needs to use the computer, and that is not password protected because obviously, I don’t want everybody to know my password and get full privileges to the computer.
And as for using the internet on unconventional devices, it’s such a pain in the backside. I can’t even use it properly on a phone, leaving phones like the iPhone or the ones with full qwerty keyboards aside. And it’s such a pain to write e-mails on the conventional phones too. Even more so if you write loooong emails like I do.
Hehe, I remember when I didn’t have internet when I first moved and I was using my iPhone on 3G. Oh, what fun. Trying to get online was killer. so, I totally feel you. :D