Its finally here! The day all of you have been waiting for. Okay, not you, but the day I was waiting for. After seven days (working days) of sleepless nights, my wildchild is here. The Dell Inspiron 1545. For guys who would like to buy something similar, here's the configuration and the price-
Processor: T6400(2.0 Ghz/ 800 Mhz/ 2Mb Cache)
Ram: 3 Gb
Hard disk: 250 Gb
Graphic card: 4500MHD Media accelator (32Mb)
Screen size: 15.6"
Bluetooth: Yes
Card Reader: Yes
Web cam: Yes
Wi-Fi: Yes
Colour: Red (Matt finish)
Price: Rs. 35,800 (Landing price) [Got a small discount]
Now that I have bored you enough, let me bore you a little more. Let me explain to you each and every term that I mentioned above.
Now, had I been yapping infront of a live audience, most of them would be asleep by now, but thats the real beauty of blogspot, I cant see you, so I can yap my way to glory. The last time I tried explaining stuff to my sister, she got so annoyed that she locked me up in the spare bathroom(we have a huge house). I was in there for 3 days. I lost 5 kgs and my biceps are now 26" down from the usual 28".
On second thoughts, I think, I shouldnt be taking the risk of explaining to you guys the basics of computers, simply coz, I have a lot of female readers(all 3 of them), and they might end up doing to me what my sister did so successfully.
But I wish to share with you this incident that happened a few years ago. We- me and my college friend C- (on the rare days we attended college) were sitting in the computer lab in college.
C noticed that the PC's 80 Gb ram was full. Obviously, the official data, data as in Visual basic, C, C++ programs, excel sheets, word files etc was only 214Kb. There were around 50Gb of movies, 10Gb of episodes of 'Police chases gone wrong' and the rest were, well, hidden in the system 32 folder! Why hidden? If you are an engineer, then you know!
So C wanted to save this "important file"- 'comedy scenes from Marathi movies' on the drive. Personally, I dont see the need to watch comedy. Our college and professors provided generous offering of comedy. The file was around 1 Gb. "Disk full" popped up on the screen.
C: Abbe? Kya faltugiri hai! 80Gb hard disk bhi full ho gaya!
Arshat (Me): Aisa kya store kiya hai bey hard disk pe?
Check kar... Phir delete kar
Tere ko yeh comedy scenes kyun store karne ka hai lab PC pe?
Arre nahi toh bahut bore hota hai lab mein..
Already stored hai na movies, woh dekh...
Sab english movies hai... Aur ek bhi comedy movie nahi hai...
Hmm.. (Going through the Pc) Kitna movies hai bey!
50Gb ka movies hai
10 Gb ka Police chases hai
50+10=60. Baki 20 Gb kya hai?
Arre programs, word files, excel files... kaam kiya hoga public ne..
Pagal hai kya? Itna kaam? Yeh dekh 214Kb kaam kiya hai sirf.
Toh baki 20Gb kya hai?
Ruk, files hidden hai..
Yeh kya hai. Saale System 32 ka files hai.
Itna Gb nahi hai System 32.
We played the first "hidden" file.
Shit.. shittt... bannnd kar saaleeee..
Arre ruk na.. ruk na..
Abbe koi aayega toh..?
Arre computer lab hai! Kaun aata hai yahan pe?
Saaleeee... band kar...
Abbe apaan ne thodi load kiya hai yeh sab files... Chal tere liye window chota karke dekta hoon..
The door opened.
Banndd kar saaalleeee...
Saying that I turned the switch of the spike guard off.
The door opened. We feared the worst. What if someone had heard the sound of the hidden movie. The probability of that was low though, the lab was AC and a thick door quarantined the room.
A girl entered. Probably a senior. Maybe from computers. I take this guess coz they had many pretty girls in IT and computers.
Thampi Sir?
Umm.. no, he's not here.
What are you guys doing?
We are working.
But the computer is turned off.
We were going to turn it on.
She gave us a look of suspicion and left.
Chal fir se On karte hain
Shot mat de saale.
Projector connect karte hai kya?
Saaaleeee...
Ah.. lovely days those were. Wonder if they will ever come back. Sometimes I wonder if we should have connected the projector. What would be the maximum penalty if we were caught? Was it worth the risk? How would it be to watch it on a projector? I guess I will never find out.
Anyway, this post got really senti for all the wrong reasons, I meant to write this post to update you on my laptop status(Not tht you care or anything). I have shared so many things with you, thought should share this too!
I make it sound like I am getting married!
Update: Inspite of the gentleman that I am, I forgot to thank all my friends who helped me zero in on this laptop - Hiren aka Lamda, Rishikesh Bhise, Chaitanya Aathyle, Ameya Sohoni, Nupur.. Thank you guys. You rock :)
Editor in chief Arshat Chaudhary
Current Issues: Dell, friends, inspiron, laptop
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Nupur said...
Ever thought about making a Five Point Someone out of this incident??!?It could work!!!
BTW, congrats for the lappy!!
Anonymous said...
loved the chat !! it was neway better than your laptop seec :P
Harish said...
Location: 4th floor, Computer Lab
Time: LAN Gaming Sessions
Been There...Done That..!
Meghana Naidu said...
First of all WooHoo! *ENVY*
i make do with a 256 ram, 80Gb and a processor which i will not mention to save me from more humilliation :|
so yeah congrats..
AND, It was obvious what it would turn out to be right from the word "hidden"
good times indeed ;)
Now, "female readers" ? O_O
really? you havent met the right kind of girls yet then.
an entertainer as ALways,
*the feminist in me says* only next time give the 'female readers' phrases a miss,
aroop said...
Porn.......... yuk... gros man.......
and i bet the dialogues were the other way round between you and 'C', with him asking you to shut it..
I hope the trojan pays your beloved dell a visit..
btw when you leaving milte hai ek baar jane se pehle.. just us.. ;)
Thoorika said...
Projector connect karte hai kya?
LOlz!!!! Very informative post !!!
AnjuGandhi said...
enjoy your new passion
Anonymous said...
first why is it that girls wont like to listen to computers? Wasnt that a sexist sentence?
I think U mean 80 GB (not Gb i.e. Gigabyte not gigabit) hard disk (not ram which is RAM btw) was full.
Congrats on the new Laptop.U have the same typos in specifications too.
Arshat Chaudhary said...
@nupur
hehehe.. dunno bout tht!
Thanks :)
@pretty me
I thought so!
@Harish
Join the club mate!
@Meghana
Oh.. I meant that as a joke (that is why the mention of 3 readers.. there are a lot more than that, there are 7 female readers of this blog)
@Aroop
Porn? Where did I mention porn? One dirty brain u have dude! :P
Will meet for sure.. Time mila toh call kar saale
@Thoorika
Glad I could add to your information :P
@Anju
Sure! Thanks :)
@opinions and expressions
Pray, tell me, how in the world was that sentence sexist!!?
If you find that sexist it means - *You think not liking listening about computers is lowly. That in itself is faulty line of thinking. Most of my male friends dont like talking about designer shoes, does that in anyway make us men lowly in anyway? I wonder if saying - "Men might not like listening to the latest trend in shoe fashion" make me a sexist!!
About the Gb and stuff, well I wrote the post in around 15 minutes flat. I dont pay much attention to grammar, so forget paying any respect to computer lingo :P
Around 50% of the guys who read this blog are engineers, most of them work for IT companies, but even they didnt bring all these typos to my notice. Actually, I myself cud have changed the typos had i read my post again, but I didnt get time. I thank you for bringing all these typos to my notice :) But not gonna change anything, am too lazy for tht! :P
Btw - "first why is it that girls wont like to listen to computers?" You mentioned first, but what is the second?? :P
Anonymous said...
female readers?? hahaaaaaa...do u speak like this in front of ur gf (if u have 1 i.e.) too? :P
Anonymous said...
haha... i want to marry an IT girl now... i wrote an article on my laptop today in my page and look what i read here :P
mine is apple mac!!
:)
Shanu said...
Lol..the lab incident was a better read thn ur lappy confi :)
Thnk God u have ur sis arnd or ur female readership wld be down to 2 :P
Winnie the poohi said...
lmao! thats what you guys did in comp lab!!
I wonder what did the guys from my college did!
NG said...
hahaha... u r one crazy fella :D
s4n705h said...
i too saw that RAM == HD fault. but the system is sure a monster. your laptop configuration sound like a server conf in front of my age old computer. :)
iceprincess said...
:)
congo!!!
finally,u got d lap top(suggestive name na?)
:P
Srinivas said...
WoW!!!Congrats for your new laptop..but the screen size is big..now a days its becoming fashionable to have small screen...well for a person who wished to see in projector..15.6is OK...FYI the same laptop is avaiable for 31K here in malaysia.
HIREN aka lamda said...
saale, ye C kon hian??
waise chod, apun sab ne kaafi kuch kiya hian..
remember ppl bringin pen drive 2 transfer d hidden files...
thn i had a 80 GB portable hard disk in which ppl stored 45 GB wrth of hidden files..
:p
maardi thi logon ne me HDD ki..
btw congrats on ur new lapptop..
mere madat ko thnk nahi karega kya???
DELL Inspiron 1545 lene me maine madat ki thi..
yaad hian??
USA k bhi rates batae the..
waise DELL rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bullshee said...
First of all, congrats the new beauty!!!
Second of all -Projector connect karte hai kya?
Ha ha ha ha!!! Hilarious!!
Chaitanya (Colony's Doodhwala) said...
Why do you always get my name incorrect.
Its CHAITANYA ATHALYE.
aroop said...
the telephone works both ways...
Anonymous said...
ROTFLMAO!!
You should have connected it to the projector man!! Do it the next time if you have a chance!
Been there, done that... but not in college..
My umm...friend and I were surfing for movies on the company LAN one fine weekend, and stumbled upon some, on an Israeli guys machine... Had an awesomely hilarious time in the meeting room with a projector connected ;)
Its an experience you dont want to miss :D
MP said...
Mine gets delivered in 2 days. Gratz on yours!