I woke up to discover a brutal scene in my dining room.
Only two days after I acquired my 11″ MacBook Air, it has eliminated all possible threats to its power by savaging the only other ultraportable laptop in the apartment. The smaller, plastic-bodied Asus Eee 1000HE — already weakened by a year of battering and no longer able to reliably power up — never stood a chance.
The Eee served me well for a while, but as you can see there is no point in getting sentimental. Pieces of the Eee will live on; I will get an enclosure for the hard drive and use it as an on-the-go backup disk, and that lonely gig of memory will find its way into something. The rest will be recycled or sold as replacement parts for Eees of greater fitness.
Marc Jacobs
December 24, 2010 — 4:16 pm
Great post. I love the anthropomorphizing.
Nicole
December 25, 2010 — 12:46 pm
Interesting. On December 23rd I had the Night of 4 Screwdrivers and, yes, flashed people at the bar.
Eugene Fischer
December 26, 2010 — 1:19 am
Nicole: I bet the commemorative statue is already being carved.