The death of my gaming laptop

[VanityGirl]

After years of use and travel, my gaming laptop can no longer serve its gaming purpose. I'm sad because this is the only thing I have to play my PC games on and it now can no longer run games due to its age. Keep it mind, this was my FIRST laptop, a Dell XPS, and it has literally traveled with me two three different continents and was with me through my entire high school career and half of my college career.

I salute you my gaming laptop and say that you've far surpassed many of the desktops I've seen. You've been a great gaming computer and you've also helped me when my 3D modeling.


So, has anyone missed their computer when it finally kicked the bucket?

 

[fix-the-spade]

Nope, I have reserves!

 

[Irridium]

I remember my previous computer. It was a little black box. Compact, easy to move like a laptop, but still had all the power of a bigger PC. Damn I loved that thing. Then it started acting weird, and eventually went insane due to a virus. It was on its last legs anyhow, so I was able to talk my parents into getting parts for a new PC, which is the one I have now.

Still though, I miss that little black box of awesome. I will never forget it.

 

[Romidude]

Mine is pretty much dying, I've been hard on it. It's a Three Year old Two-Hundred dollar laptop, gaming and mod development has pretty much made it fall apart.

 

[JRCB]

My Macbook died once due to a hard-drive failure. I was very sad to see it go because I had a lot of stuff on it, and I'll never be able to get it back. Writing, poetry, music, et cetera.

I almost had a heart attack when my desktop died. A friend helped me build it, so there were a lot of memories attached to it. Fortunately, I was able to fix it.

And I'm sorry to hear that your laptop is dead.

 

[thahat]

never. since im always behind the curve when it comes to hardware. XD

 

[DMonkey]

Will in about a week or so.
This thing is on its last leg.
Also a Dell! Inspiron. Didn't have the cash for the XPS, though at the time, was trying to save up for one, so you must have got it around the same time I got mine.

 

[Ophi]

My first laptop's screen literally exploded while playing World of Warcraft.

It shall be missed. *Salute*

 

[theriddlen]

Gaming laptop?

I see what you did there.

 

[Neverhoodian]

I miss my parents' old IBM 486 computer. I played all sorts of classics on there when I was a kid (Tie Fighter, Red Baron, Myst, A-10 Tank Killer, etc).

 

[invader sloth]

I don't think I've ever let one of my gaming computers stay around long enough to die on me...

 

[MikhailGH]

Ah my good ol' pentium 2, how I will miss you...

 

[MiketheBassMan]

I replaced my ruined Toshiba Satellite with an Alienware m15x this year. I still miss the speakers from the old satellite, it had harman/kardon HD audio. New laptop is definitely for gaming though, and it's definitely better than the typical gaming desktop.

 

[Nooners]

My Dell Inspiron lasted for three glorious years and still functions well, but wasn't up to the task of highly-intensive video editing. My new desktop is. And funny thing is, decent video editing systems make for pretty decent gaming systems, too...

Still have the laptop, though, mostly for things like Microsoft Word.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Somewhere towards the end of middle school or the beginning of highschool, I had two or three old computers that ran Windows 95 -- note that Windows XP came out around the time I started middle school. Anyway, I loved those ancient machines, because they let me play all of my old Dos games on the actual hardware, which was a very good thing, since Dos emulation was not very good at the time. Anyway, the machines kicked the bucket one by one, until one day I no longer had anything that could play the Dos games that I had and Dosbox didn't like. I still miss those old computers.

 

[BenzSmoke]

My gaming laptop is still hanging in there.
It's pretty new and I'm planing on putting new parts in it when that becomes necessary.

 

[PureChaos]

Travelled with you 'to three different continents' not 'two three different continents'!

My being picky aside, my old laptop I got before going to university. It was great through all three years and after I graduated but a few months ago it was going REALLY slow (as in I'd switch it on and would have to wait half an hour for it to properly boot up before I could go in the internet) so i got my new one. I missed my new one for a week or so but after being able to get online in under 2 minutes after pressing the 'on' button I loved my new one. went on my old one the other day just to make sure it still works and after an hour after it came one I was still unable to get online yet so gave up. tried switching it off but 15 minutes after trying to switch it off it was still not shutting down so I just left it to run out of batter, which took about 3 minutes even though it was fully charged when I unplugged it