Triggers Broom

[MrSpike]

Just thought I'd share my Triggers Broom, it started life as an unmolested Advent Laptop with Windows Vista, happily doing what laptops do, until one day a stray pint of vodka with a dash of lime decided to empty it's contents onto my keyboard.
bks I thought, nothing a usb keyboard couldn't fix. So once again all was happy in the land of laptop until my diskdrive lunched itself! No problem, I never really use it anyway, but was on the to do list to be sorted.

One day whilst happily(cough) at work NOT downloading anything I shouldn't of been, the hard drive said enough is enough and crashed. Double bks, so off I went to Pantip Plaza to have a disk drive out of a Samsung put in and a Disk drive from a Sony laptop.

All was well again.....until yesterday it decided to throw itself off of my balcony. Well when I say throw itself, I might of actually knocked it with an umbrella, which resulted in me trying to pin it against the air con unit with open brolly for all I was worth, but alas to no avail the bugger was too heavy for the canvas so off it plummeted. Not a problem you would think, but I'm ten floors up and it landed with a huge crash onto someone's corrugated roof below.

"st" I thought, "that's a write off"

So off I trudged to go and retrieve the wreckage, which surprisingly having fell through someone's tin roof, was still in one piece. After having dealt with the angry Thai family, I took it home and opened it up.

Not a pretty site, it landed on the new disk drive, smashed the screen and twisted the keyboard. Anyway curiosity got the better of me and I thought lets plug in the power lead and see what happens...IT LIVES!

Ladies and Gentlemen I give you the Advent Triggers Broom Edition:
- Samsung Desktop screen found in office cupboard
- Acer plug in keyboard
- Windows 7
- Sellotape power lead
- Mouse of unknown origin found in the office cupboard that double clicks when you press the button once
- Extra Nano Turbo Ventilation System provided by the cracks around the side and bottom.

[Carfiend]

Should of bought a Macbook

[MrSpike]

Could a Macbook survive a 10storey leap of faith though?

[Dracoro]

Carfiend said:

Should of bought a Macbook

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[Carfiend]

MrSpike said:

Could a Macbook survive a 10storey leap of faith though?

Are you saying that a creation of St Jobs is not after all indestructible and will not bring about the second coming of Christ?!?

[dugt]

MrSpike said:

...until one day a stray pint of vodka with a dash of lime...

The laptop is the least of your worries.

[MrSpike]

Carfiend said:

MrSpike said:

Could a Macbook survive a 10storey leap of faith though?

Are you saying that a creation of St Jobs is not after all indestructible and will not bring about the second coming of Christ?!?

Do you buy into the Jobs drivel?

1. He knew there would be a second coming

“I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.” — Playboy, 1985

2. He knew DRM was doomed from the start

“We don’t believe it’s possible to protect digital content… What’s new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet — and no one’s gonna shut down the Internet. And it only takes one stolen copy to be on the Internet. And the way we expressed it to them is: Pick one lock — open every door. It only takes one person to pick a lock… You’ll never stop that. So what you have to do is compete with it.” — Rolling Stone, 2003

3. He knew the rise of generic PCs would stifle advancement

“If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years. Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they always stop innovation — they prevent innovation from happening.” — Playboy, 1985

4. He knew he could bring Apple back from the (almost) dead

“You know, I’ve got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can’t say any more than that it’s the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.” — Fortune, 1995

5. He knew the internet would change our lives forever

“The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it into a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people—as remarkable as the telephone.” — Playboy, 1985

6. He knew the iTunes business model would crush the competition

“We said: These [music subscription] services that are out there now are going to fail. Music Net’s gonna fail, Press Play’s gonna fail. Here’s why: People don’t want to buy their music as a subscription. They bought 45’s; then they bought LP’s; then they bought cassettes; then they bought 8-tracks; then they bought CD’s. They’re going to want to buy downloads. People want to own their music. You don’t want to rent your music — and then, one day, if you stop paying, all your music goes away.” — Rolling Stone, 2003

7. He knew the record labels would stupidly demand higher pricing

“Customers think the price is really good where it is. We’re trying to compete with piracy — we’re trying to pull people away from piracy and say, ‘You can buy these songs legally for a fair price.’ But if the price goes up a lot, they’ll go back to piracy. Then, everybody loses.” — 2005

8. He knew Disney would have to join forces with Pixar to stay relevant

“I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney — not replace Disney — but be the next Disney.” — BusinessWeek, 1998

9. He knew the iTunes Store would change everything

“It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can’t overestimate it!” — Fortune, 2003
10. He knew Apple’s portables would lead the industry

“[Portable computers] are OK if you’re a reporter and trying to take notes on the run. But for the average person, they’re really not that useful, and there’s not all that software for them, either. By the time you get your software done, a new one comes out with a slightly bigger display and your software is obsolete. So nobody is writing any software for them. Wait till we do it—the power of a Macintosh in something the size of a book!” — Playboy, 1985

11. He knew the iPhone would come (22 years before it did)

“The developments will be in making the products more and more portable, networking them, getting out laser printers, getting out shared data bases, getting out more communications ability, maybe the merging of the telephone and the personal computer.” — Playboy, 1985

12. He knew the graphic user interface would be the basis of all computers

“I was so blinded by the first thing they showed me, which was the graphical user interface. I thought it was the best thing I’d ever seen in my life… And within 10 minutes it was obvious to me that all computers would work like this.” — PBS, 1996

13. He knew how to handle tough economic times (and still does)

“We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place — the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were going to keep funding. In fact we were going to up our R&D budget so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was over. And that’s exactly what we did. And it worked. And that’s exactly what we’ll do this time.” — Fortune, 2008

[MrSpike]

dugt said:

MrSpike said:

...until one day a stray pint of vodka with a dash of lime...

The laptop is the least of your worries.

I agree the lime was an issue, it took up too much room in the glass, coupled with it sitting on the edge of the glass is what threw the vodka off balance through non-equal weight distribution.

Problem now fixed though.........Bartender!

[E21_Ross]

Dracoro said:

Carfiend said:

Should of bought a Macbook

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should have saved your money and got linux - even more secure

[Dracoro]

E21_Ross said:

Dracoro said:

Carfiend said:

Should of bought a Macbook

HAVE

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should have saved your money and got linux - even more secure

Whoooooosssshhhhh...........