While I was at work today, my roommates did the idiot dance.
They called me and told me my laptop crashed. Now, this is a big problem, as we only have one internet-connected computer in the house (the other is in Chell's room, but it's so beat up and nearly dead that we're just going to wait for it to die and then buy a new one) and my roommates need it for their college stuff occasionally.
When I got home, it was sitting on the table with about four fans running at it, and it was nearly taken apart. I was told this:
Alessa was sitting, curled up in about five blankets with the laptop in her lap, when the laptop suddenly shut off. It wouldn't turn on again and was extremely hot. She immediately took it into the living room and put it against four fans. She and Chell started taking it apart to see what the problem was when I got home.
I put all the parts back on and turned the computer on. I again warned them that if the computer overheats, it will shut itself off and not turn back on until the heat level is down. They both apologized and Chell explained that Alessa told her something very bad had happened to the computer and needed it to be taken apart. However, she didn't even think twice to wonder WHY a laptop would ever need to be taken apart.
What the chicken nugget, anyway? How can you NOT know that a laptop can overheat to the point of shutting itself off, especially when that information is conveyed to you when you first use the laptop (I explained exactly how to use the laptop without overheating it, even that the laptop shuts itself off when it's overheated)?
They called me and told me my laptop crashed. Now, this is a big problem, as we only have one internet-connected computer in the house (the other is in Chell's room, but it's so beat up and nearly dead that we're just going to wait for it to die and then buy a new one) and my roommates need it for their college stuff occasionally.
When I got home, it was sitting on the table with about four fans running at it, and it was nearly taken apart. I was told this:
Alessa was sitting, curled up in about five blankets with the laptop in her lap, when the laptop suddenly shut off. It wouldn't turn on again and was extremely hot. She immediately took it into the living room and put it against four fans. She and Chell started taking it apart to see what the problem was when I got home.
I put all the parts back on and turned the computer on. I again warned them that if the computer overheats, it will shut itself off and not turn back on until the heat level is down. They both apologized and Chell explained that Alessa told her something very bad had happened to the computer and needed it to be taken apart. However, she didn't even think twice to wonder WHY a laptop would ever need to be taken apart.
What the chicken nugget, anyway? How can you NOT know that a laptop can overheat to the point of shutting itself off, especially when that information is conveyed to you when you first use the laptop (I explained exactly how to use the laptop without overheating it, even that the laptop shuts itself off when it's overheated)?
