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Creating The Perfect Frankenstein Unicorn Laptop
We all dread that moment.
That first blue screen of death. That gentle swelling of a hot battery.
That soul-crushing feeling when your partner in work, your daily driver, the device that is your portal to the world has an issue. Yes, I am referring to your work computer.
It is one thing to get a new work computer when it is planned. That long and arduous process to check all of the nooks and crannies for long-forgotten files and work. The slow migration of apps from one unit to the next.
It is a completely different feeling when frantically scrambling to back everything up while fervently praying to the computer god, Clippy, to just give me a few more minutes before overheating to the point of another attack of the blue screen.
Yes, my work laptop is currently dying.
The battery is starting to swell and the unit is starting to crash multiple times a day.
This brings me to one of the most exciting and also most frustrating aspects of this entire process. Selecting a new laptop.
Oftentimes this process is easier for most people. The IT department either has a single unit to pick from or at most a couple of units, making the variables and options very narrow in scope.
