MTV: Pimp My Computer!
MTV, I’m calling you out
My computer setup is infinitely worse than any crappy car you’ve had on Pimp My Ride. For how much time I spend at my computer, I have a truly TERRIBLE setup, and it needs to be Pimped MTV. There are so many problems with my entire computer area I don’t even know where to begin. Here is The List.
1.) Computer chair - It is the smallest, crappiest chair you’ve ever seen. The back wobbles like crazy, and I constantly have to push it back in to make sure it doesn’t fall off because it’s so loose. Tightening the screw does nothing. Also, the whole house is tilted slightly, so I am constantly sliding to the left because of the well lubed wheels on my computer chair. Every couple of minutes I have to scoot, scoot, back into place, and then push the back of the chair back into it’s slot so I don’t fall over backwards when it falls off.
2.) Headphones - The padding has long since worn off, so hard plastic presses against my ears. The protective housing for the cable has long since stripped off, exposing raw wires, which if it didn’t interfear with the sound quality I could care less about. But of coarse the sound in the left earpiece only works about half the time because of this, and you have to play around with the bare wires to get it to work again. Sometimes it stays fixed for an hour or more, and sometimes it breaks again five minutes later. So now I get to mess with the headphone wires every time I scoot my chair back into place. Fun.
3.) Monitor - 21″ Samsung flat panel screen. Great right? Wrong. When it’s working it looks great, but I managed to get one that turns itself on and off intermittently. Normally it’s not a big deal, it just flashes totally dark for 2 seconds every half hour or so, but lately it’s gotten MUCH worse, doing it three or four times in a row which is SUPER annoying. I already sent it back once when it had 3 dead pixels on arrival, and I’m pretty sure the warranty is up, so I’m just stuck with a $350 defective monitor.
4.) Internet connection - It cuts out pretty regularly, and all the repairman can say is “You have old cables in this house, the only thing you can do is replace all the wire in the house.” Wow, thanks. Put one more checkmark in the column of “Reasons Why Living Here Sucks.”
5.) No PCI-E or AGP video card slots, just PCI - This computer was my first ever PC purchase because I’m a Mac guy, and it was just one of those things that I didn’t know mattered. Bottom line? The newest video card I can get in my computer is from about 2002, and games that are five years old still lag like a bitch.
6.) Needs a System Reinstall - My computer overall just lags like hell, 5 seconds or more to open Firefox or a word processor. Tried uninstalling all useless things, didn’t work. Scanned for a virus. Did nothing. Oh, oh, a spyware scan will help! Wrong. So I get it in my head to reinstall the system software. Can’t find the disk. Call Dell to get new one. I’m told that 3 years ago I forgot to get the ownership transfered to my name from the guy I bought it from. I miraculously find the phone number of the company I purchased it from and give them a call, assuming it is a customer service line. Wrong. Turns out it was some guys cell phone number and I wake him up at 4am east coast time. Not happy. Whoops.
MTV, Are You Up For a Challenge?
Email me the time and date when you can Pimp My Computer, and I will try to be available to film the show. Thanks, and look forward to working with you guys. Mabye make my setup something like this, but with more monitors, but if you wanted to do something crazy, don’t let me hold ya back.
agre with you .. they should make something like that for computer users and not only pc users ..
the only drawback of that issue is that after one month your neew pimped pc will be OLD
BTW as for your machine , [ how do you keep up blogging
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King Jeremy III reply on June 22nd, 2008 1:16 pm:
As much as I’d like to blame my lack of posts and drive on my computer…I’m just lazy sometimes, I’ll admit it.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 4:45 am
I wish I had the chair at the bottom of this article. I have a very nice chair I bought for 100 and it has helped my back pains and tail being sore.
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King Jeremy III reply on June 23rd, 2008 11:09 am:
I hear ya, my computer chair will be replaced before anything else. It’s totally worth a hundred bucks or more to be comfortable while spending hours and hours in front of your computer, and as you can see, my chair right now is doing a terrible job.
I actually just checked the bottom of my current chair, and the metal on the bottom is actually ripping, so that I can’t get it to stay straight up no matter what
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June 23rd, 2008 at 10:24 am
That’s hilarious… I love the idea for the show, although you might have better luck on OC16! Maybe you should call Personal Touch Computers…
Seriously, you can replace the monitor stand easily. It just screws on to the back of the monitor. I’ve got a monitor arm that I can sell you, just hook it to your desk and you can pivot the monitor 90 degrees.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Theres a tech support rep in India who would take a cobra bite to the neck for your current system.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Oh so you want a new computer for free?
Well don’t bet on it, I’m DeStumbling, why not just get money and buy yourself a new computer?
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King Jeremy III reply on June 25th, 2008 12:40 pm:
Your avatar says it all…
Not the brightest, eh? That’s ok, at least everyone else seems to have got it…
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June 25th, 2008 at 10:05 am
adsad
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