The first laptop I got, I spoiled it through violence. Whenever
there was some screw-up, slow connection or what, I'd bang on it,
such that eventually the hard disk couldn't take it anymore and
went R.I.P. That was okay, cos the thing was under international
warranty and I got the hard disk replaced F.O.C.
But one year later, the screen decided that it liked warped
displays, and occasionally gave me screwed up, fun-fair mirror type
displays of my desktop. The problem was just unfathomable and
inscrutable and unsolveable. On good days it would work normally.
But when PMS came it came hard and long. Sometimes the screen was
warped for several consecutive days. Until once it went AWOL so
long that I decided that the laptop is to be condemned, and got a
new one. Now I don't bang on the laptop anymore. I take it out on
the desk or table top or the wall instead.
