Entry for 23d December, 2008 - New Laptop/Old Laptop

I have got a new laptop. It is upstairs now as I type this, because I cannot quite bring myself to give up the old Dell Inspiron just yet. I cannot quite get over the feeling that it is like an old dog who is soon to be sent to the great kennels in the sky. Every time I open the screen and Windows blinks into life, I feel like the laptop is looking at me eagerly, recalling days when we gambolled in the fields together, when I tossed a stick to it and it ran to fetch it. “Come on,” it seems to say, “One more walk around the block.”
It does not know that soon the men from the Ecological Computer Disposal Team will come for him. I will hear the van doors closing and I will know that I will never again hear the happy hum of his hard drive.
Goodbye old chap.