From this:
Holy shit!
...to this:
Holy frickin' shitty laptop of hell!
...and finally this:
Look at that exploding laptop. What an asshole.
What the fuck!? Is this for real? Or am I just seeing shitty photoshop work?
Well, in a sense, no, this isn't real at all. My laptop isn't on fire yet, but I think it will in a couple of mere months. It officially lost the ability to cool itself. The only cooling material it has on its own is the heatsink for the CPU, nothing else. The small fan on the bottom of the computer, designed to cool the area occupied by the hard disk drive and a part of the graphics processor, is now inoperational. Not completely, there are some rare occassions where it springs to life, but most of the time, it just lays there dead.
As a result, the computer has been moving a lot slower than usual. Windows Explorer tends to freeze up, Firefox can fail in some occassions, and graphics processing efficiency is noticeably degraded. You could blame it on the crapability of Windows XP, however, the main culprit here is my dying hardware. WinExplorer (or should I say, FailExplorer) freezing and crashing is just regular Windows business. Nothing unusual about that.
What could have caused my hardware to deteriorate? The main reason is that this laptop is five fucking years old. This is as old as your grandpa's 1953 Chevy, if you convert the laptop's age to car years. The once "great" specs of the laptop, Intel Centrino 1.6Ghz, 512MB of RAM (now 1GB), and 40GB HDD space (now 80GB), is considered measly and is very much like ordinary Filipino computer specifications.
Another culprit would be abuse. I tend to beat the shit out of my laptop every once in a while, but the proper physical and emotional training I gave to it made it extra resistant to everyday keyboard slams and flying off the second floor window. Fans and cooling devices are usually the first once to get destroyed due to stress and abuse. So I partly blame myself for that (and the rest goes to Faildows).
It pretty much fits it.
There are a few solutions to this problem, mainly:
1. Buy a new notebook computer. This is pretty obvious. However, I have to wait until graduation, which is still a bit like five months away. I'm going to buy one between the line of gaming and mobility, since I can't bring my rig in college and I tend to move a lot outside.
2. Repair the onboard cooling system with better ones. There are some solutions on the Internet on how to replace the onboard fans of a notebook computer. However, not all notebooks are dependent on fans, since fans are heavy and noisy.
3. Bring a laptop cooler at all times. Yes, this is an obvious solution, however, my laptop's job is run and gun on different locations (that is, I bring it where I go), not be a fatass sitting on a desk. Coolers are for desktop replacements, and if I have to place a cooler just because I'm taking a vent in Starbucks, I'd rather tape my laptop in front of their airconditioning unit.
If I don't act upon this problem, soon enough, something like this is bound to happen:
MAH BALLZ!!11!
