Contemplative
One might be excused for saying that I am currently displeased with Sony.
While I've long enjoyed their consumer electronics products, and the Playstation 2 is certainly a fine piece of engineering, their computer products have of late left me with a slightly unpleasant taste.
Witness the Sony Vaio PCGRX560 laptop. A fine laptop, with a pretty 1600x1200 LCD screen that's a pleasure to use. Until, of course, the machine's motherboard fails and it refuses to boot, or spontaneously powers down, weeks out of warranty.
Also witness the recovery disks for the Sony Vaio RX370 desktop computer. Should a problem befall your computer, you'd best have God on your side. Not only is the computer incapable of booting from its DVD drive, rendering your emergency restore-and-install-Windows DVD useless, the recovery CDs that ship with the computer are not in fact recovery CDs as one might expect.
These sneaky little bastards wait until you boot from them, and promptly repartition the first drive they see. What? You didn't want your 120 gig data drive full of music, art, registration keys for all the software you've purchased electronically, and original art for Havana Moderne reformatted as a 16 gig FAT32 partition with Windows ME? Oh. So sorry!
MY prodigous 60 gig music collection is gone, the high-res originals for Havana Moderne are gone, the installers and reg keys for all my Sonic Foundry products are gone, pretty much everything that doesn't come on a CD with the Microsoft or Adobe logo is gone.
But hey...
I had a really good cinnamon roll.
the Viaos have some really
the Viaos have some really nice features and things, but man- everyone I know that has purchased one in the last couple years has had some serious problems with them. One board fried after months of use because apparently, there was a bad soldiering job on the board that slowly caused it to fry. Two people have had to get expensive replacement screens because they all the sudden started crapping out. One was sent with a faulty battery and hard drive (they had a real tough time problem-solving that one.) And everything usually just past waranty.
It makes me wonder...
ouch.
ouch.
Mine has been HAPPY HAPPY
Mine has been HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY since I bought it.
I hope that's a Windows ME thing, but it might be time to do some backing up...
Me: Vaio laptop. Problem:
Me: Vaio laptop. Problem: Intermittent freezing. Had the CPU replaces, still does it. I got an extended warranty, but of course the store is being a pain about it. Next trip the Vaio takes: Down the stairs!
Oh man... that sucks.
Oh man... that sucks.
But you, uh, took backups,
But you, uh, took backups, right?
Well, this was in fact the
Well, this was in fact the network backup machine. It's right tough to back up 60 gigs of MP3s.
anyways...
i learned my lesson, or something like that. my bad.
it's just bits.
yeeeeouch!
yeeeeouch!
Mmmmmm...cinnamon roll.
Mmmmmm...cinnamon roll.
To hell with MP3s, did the
To hell with MP3s, did the Havana Moderne stuff survive?!
Um, ditto. HM must be saved
Um, ditto. HM must be saved at all costs!
Damn, what a cruddy thing to happen.
wow. that's a major downer.
wow. that's a major downer. (wha?) seriously, terrible! i'd be furious. i hope the h.m. is also ok.
however, ihave to say i'm a little proud that i understood most of your compu-babble.
I like cinnamon rolls. If God
I like cinnamon rolls.
If God is with us, how can Sony be against us?
I do have to agree that this
I do have to agree that this all sucks, but I thought of you today when I had an mini cinnibon. I even saved you one :)
On the good side, cinnamon
On the good side, cinnamon rolls 0wnz0r3s j00.
On the bad side, you don't have DLT backup capability like I do. We'll have to work on that, dude. :)
Uhm, I got 25gb of MP3s, did you want them? It's the only solace I can offer other than my deepest sympathies.
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