HP Computers / Oscars

So the HP laptop that I bought right before the start of college already broke down after a mere 1.5 years.

Good job Hewlett Packard, I congratulate your huge corporate ass for taking my 1000 dollars in exchange for a piece of crap. I had everything configured nicely too, big hard drive, decent cpu, discrete graphics, lots of RAM. It is fair to say that HP is probably never going to get my patronage again. Just want to thank my friend Johnny for lending me his laptop to use for the week and a half that it took for my thinkpad to come. I got a decent one on sale for 550, hopefully it will last me until graduation. If it does break down, at the very least it cost half the price of that HP.

In light of this HP breakdown, I just want to share this with ya'll.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/laptop-reliability-survey-asus-and-toshiba-win-hp-fails/

Notice that apple's breakdown rate is just a slight tick down when compared to dell, yet you can buy at least two dell studios with the same amount of money. Hmmmm..

Switching topics, last night's best film of the year award went to The Hurt Locker. I saw both the Hurt Locker and Inglourious Basterds, and I definitely thought Inglourious Basterds was the better movie. Maybe I just did not watch the Hurt Locker carefully enough, but it didn't grab me the way Inglorious Basterds did the first time through. The same goes for director of the year award. Quentin Tarantino truly deserved that oscar, weaving layers of comedy, gore, suspense and twist into Inglorious Basterds. The Hurt Locker I thought was definitely much more one-dimensional in comparison. Not to take anything away from Katherine Bigelow and her movie, but Quentin Tarantino and Inglourious Basterds I believed was the better candidate.

Also, here is a new song from Gorillaz new Album "Plastic Beach"

It's called On Melancholy Hill. I really like it, hope you likey too.

QT FTW!