You think by now I would've said screw it and bought a desktop.

So my dad actually went down to Wolverhampton today to pick up my new laptop from my brother. And I was happy for all of a minute, because hey new laptop! Finally! Even though it's much heavier than I wanted and the keyboard is so small in comparison to the rest of it that I keep hitting caps lock instead of a. You know, I have to be a little bit happy that I'm typing this on my new laptop right?

Yeah. Really happy, when I'm typing this in safe mode. A minute in on normal mode and the screen starts flickering off and back on again; a error message pops up saying Display driver atikmadag stopped functioning and has recovered. It keeps doing that, more and more frequently, until about three or four minutes in? The screen crazes into a cracked pattern and the whole thing locks up so the only way to restart it is to remove the battery.

And of course my brother isn't answering either his house phone or his mobile. Of course this laptop that I'm not even sure I like anyway and certainly wouldn't have bought if I'd been actually seen it anywhere other than the website before my brother talked me into believing it was a good idea. I want something to write on, something easy to carry around and this? This is a laptop designed for putting on a desk and playing movies on. Seriously. I am not impressed and that was even before the whole I-can't-actually-work-properly-even-though-I'm-shiny-and-new crazy screen problem.

I don't know how I let my brother talk me into these things. I should know by now that he is tallking salesperson bollocks. This is a laptop designed for him. Totally. Me? Not so much.

And you know, I thought there was no way the Dell could've been £130's worth of better. Yeah. So much for my judgement. I think this laptop is going to be named Ralph. As in, Ralph Wiggum. That's about as useful as I forsee it being.

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Weeeeeelll... phone call to the brother and a new driver installed and... it's half fixed. It's done it to me a couple of times since but not to the point of being annoying or freezing the laptop. So far.

I am definitely withholding judgement on the possibly-named-but-I'm-not-decided-yet-Ralph. He's currently getting a five out of ten and that's mainly for being able to connect to the internet faster than my five-year old laptop could. But I'm adapting to the tiny keyboard faster than I thought, so maybe that'll be pushing a six if this new driver keeps it from crashing.

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO BUY A LAPTOP THAT ACTUALLY DOES WHAT I WANT IT TO? As in, work. Seriously. This is crazy.

Anyway I give up. I'm going for a shower and then to watch Silent Witness, which I'm watching mainly because the main guy looks like Harry Potter. And is called Harry. Three weeks on this is somehow still funny. Maybe I should name the laptop Harry because at least it'd make me giggle every time I'm yelling at him for crashing his screen. Hm.

I could do with not being in work tomorrow and getting to sleep in. Mmmmm, I remember the days when I got enough sleep, vaguely. I think they were nice.