In the last few days I picked up several cards for some upcoming birthdays. Then we decided to go to a friends house over the weekend…and I thought hey lets bring the cards and we can just fill them out while we are over spending the night. Just before I left the house I was putting all of our equipment into my computer bag and thought, lets protect these cards from getting messed up, so I simply slid them under the lid of my laptop. One thing led to another and we never touched the laptops all weekend. Come Sunday night I plugged my laptop into the home network and accessed it like I always do via remote desktop and carried on with my business. After a short while I noticed I was getting some strange network errors (not all that uncommon when operating via remote desktop) and figured I would just log into the laptop directly. This is when the problems started, mysteriously the screen was bright white with no flicker / pixel movement / or anything for that manner. Upon closer inspection I noticed this…
Yes that is a large crack across the entire screen. I have had this laptop (and it’s sister laptop that Hurricane has) for over 2 years and have taken them to Europe twice and countless other trips. So what happened??
Yes this would be the $500 birthday card. Turns out the ultra thin, ultra portable laptop doesn’t take well to that quarter inch think microchip/speaker combo that they put into these cards. I am not sure what I am going to do yet but all I know is that it was one very expensive card.
Damn. That just sucks.
Looks like you found a way to get a new laptop!! The Real Problem is if you get one you have to get Hurricane one also.
Yuck. Bet those singing cards don’t sound as good to you anymore, huh? 🙂 So, does the card still work? More importantly: is the card recipient still going to get a gift?