RIP: T40 Silicon

My favourite and also my first laptop is dying. Well, it has been dying for the past few years but I have blatantly being ignoring the increasing number of signs. I keep covering up the things that have been happening and tried saying "its the best laptop in the world", louder and louder (Maybe someone would have believed it)

First in the series were the crashes- which I fixed by removing a whole lot of programs.
Then my charger always had to be connected at a certain angle- no one knew about this until sparks started coming out from the wire which had been bent at that certain angle too many times.
Vinit, being his gracious self, donated me his charger. My man has been surviving on one charger between his two laptops since then. (My repeated promises of buying another laptop have kept him from getting a new charger)
Third in line was my battery, which has slowly lost its retention power so at this point, my system hibernates immediately if the power code is removed.
And, how can I forget that my 40 GB Hdrive, somehow has reduced my workable space to only 2 GB. So I have to keep deleting files, which is no longer my hobby.
But the clincher came two weeks back- the following keys don't work any longer:
LeftCtrl,5,6,-, Delete, and a few of the F keys.

If you are wondering how I can type the above out, well, on screen keyboards weren't developed only for the handicapped.

I would still have continued in this state if every morning I didn't see the message "Your system has recovered from a serious error".

Maybe I would still not let go. After all, it didn't crash when I worked on it.

Then, one unfortunate day, we had a meeting with our potential finance guy on my laptop. Unfotunately, his favourite sample number was five. Five crore, five employees, five years. Of course, it didn't work. If he mistyped, he couldn't delete. He couldn't copy paste as he tried the left ctrl and not the right one.

Vinit has since made me sit and order a T61- the prices of which are about 60% less in US than in India.


I will always remember T40silicon.