Tommy Collison

I’ve decided to stop using my MacBook Air at home. I’m not totally sure why, but it’s being a pile of ass recently. I think the old Airs were for people like Dad who use Safari and Mail, and almost nothing else. Not even iTunes. Now, it’s perfect for him because it weighs nothing, and he travels. A lot.

For me though, who enjoys being able to listen to music AND browse Safari, which, not long ago wasn’t a tall order, it seems incapable to manage it. Everything gets intolerably laggy and when I type, the screen doesn’t keep up, which makes it look like I’m typing nothing, then typing 200 words a minute as it plays catch-up.

Now, I’m not against MacBook Airs – in fact I think they’re rather fantastic. I think it’s just the fact that I’ve got Patrick’s old one. It’s 2 years (ish) old and probably has a bunch of old programming stuff slowly killing it slowly. If that’s the case, that he forgot to remove his stuff off the Hard Drive before giving it to me.. I’m in a rather fantastic position.

I’m not going to blackmail him.. nah, us Collisons stick together.. but if I could learn off him..!

Well that’s that plan down the drain.

Either that, or he’s more cunning then I give him credit for.

Could be either.

So, the MacBook Air isn’t able to support my gluttonous lifestyle – every time I boot up I hear a little wail from the bowels of the machine: ‘Ohhhh, he’s gonna want to use iTunes and Safari and maybe some iPhone’. And then a little mechanical arm comes out and prods the hamster that lives in the cage situated in the empty space the disk drive should be. It begrudgingly awakens and begins running on his wheel, a little pop tart hanging on a string attached to another mechanical arm, by way as intensive.

I decided to move back operations to my old Macbook, which I used before getting the Air. However, I’ll still use the Air in school. The lightness coupled with the fact that Hammy the hamster seems okay with using TextEdit, along with the occasional usage of Numbers and Mail.

The rather unique problem I refer to is the fact that since I was using old Macbook last night, I forgot to charge the Air overnight, as I’ve done every night for months. I was putting the Air in my bag this morning when I realized it wasn’t turning on.

So I went into Maths this morning -my first class- and charged it there. I go into Irish, class #2 and discover that the damn thing hadn’t been charging. it was plugged in, the socket was on and even the light in the charger was orange. I think I needed to wake it up first but boy was it annoying.

Silly laptop!

But yes, I do think that I’m unique.. any other secondary school bloggers ever have the problem of an uncharged laptop? :)