I never really believed in real life nightmares until I finally came round to transferring my current iTunes to my new laptop. At first it was easy, download iTunes 8... and then it came to a full stop. I’d hit a problem! I only possessed a 1GB SD memory card which is basically ‘salad’ compared to the fat portable hardisks you can get to copy documents. Music would at least take 3GB and on top of that I have a host of other stuff like countless videos and photos, ok that sounded slightly sinister, as if I have hundreds of hidden pornographic images and videos (which of course I don’t...well at least not a hundred haha). Jokes aside the only way round it was to endure an hour’s worth of copying a handful of albums onto the card and then cut and pasting...exciting stuff.
You really start to become impatient and wish that you never bought the laptop in the first place if you’d known its downfall. I instantly withdrew that thought as I love my new laptop. I can only criticise its weird printed circle pattern that is randomly smeared at the front and keyboard space. It can only be described as ‘techno bubbles’, I say this as it doesn’t look cute but cold and metallic, yet it still manages to maintain its femininity, or as I like to call it: ‘gayness’. If it were to become a ‘Transformer’ it wouldn’t look butch or threatening, but more like a machine you would want to seek for interior design advice.
Moving on from bashing my new gay best friend, the routine of cutting and pasting became starved, literally passing the poverty level. By my tenth go at pasting, I was just about ready to get the rope out. Luckily I started playing ‘Mock the Week’ on BBC iPlayer, aiding the esteem to carry on the endless task. I found myself delaying my suicide so I could find out who won the round, oh yes Frankie Boyle and team!
After all that I spontaneously googled ‘copying old iTunes onto new pc’, to discover that I didn’t really need to perform all that cut and pasting, but I simply had to select my options to ‘manually manage’ files, and it should automatically do the shit for you. Now why didn’t I just Google it beforehand instead of pretending to be a smart arse?! All that time wasted and lesson still not learnt.
In the end my ‘used and abused’ shitty Dell is now a hollow shell; it contains no personality or evidence of the previous owner. This is excellent as i plan on giving it to my dad. He must not know anything beyond my name and birthday (as he needs this information for my birthday card and presents) what I listen to or who these faces are in my photos would be explicit. Not really I love my dad!
