MY LAPTOP IS DYING.
I've had my laptop for about 3 years now. She's a 2022 macbook air, and she's served me pretty well. She's lovingly named nuclear bomb, and she's helped me do hours of work, play hours of games, and survive hours of school. One issue; she's a dying, coughing baby hanging on for dear life. I can smell the end of her life, and the monster energy forever stuck in her keys.
Firstly, the keyboard. It's a sensory nightmare, and it's had soda spilled on it. Thrice. And then I ended up ripping out like three
different keys trying to clean it. The keys stick every time you type, providing a nightmarish experience every time I go to write an
essay. Also, the A key is broken. THE A KEY. THE MOST COMMONLY USED LETTER IN THE ENGLISH ALPHABET. THE A KEY OF ALL KEYS.
(no, i'm not joking.)
It also randomly restarts sometimes, with no warning whatsoever. That's part of the reason she's named Nuke. I've lost
HOURS of work to this issue. And also because of my inconsistent saving but I'll blame it on Nuke for now. I spent hours
on Roblox Studio, jollily working on an animation, until Dearest Nuke here decides to... well, nuke herself. And I lost. All my progress.
now, you might be saying: "Well Doom, can't you just load in your previous save?" No. No, I can't. The issue with animating with a
Roblox Studio plugin (Moon Animator, if you were curious) is that Roblox decides it's a wonderful idea to autosave. Which wouldn't be an
issue if it didn't fuck up the entire rig animation.
Basically what happens is; if you don't close Moon Animator before Roblox Studio crashes, Roblox autosaves without restoring the default
pose for the rig. And once you load it back in, it registers the last saved pose as the "default", which messes up ALL THE RIG ANIMATIONS.
So then I have to painstakingly reset the rig to the default pose, willingly crash Roblox Studio, then reload it. And that doesn't even
restore my progress it just fixes the rig.
See, I've been considering investing in a PC for a while, especially since I do gamedev and a Mac isn't exactly... great for rendering
200+ frames of animation in Blender. The issue? Space. I have no room for a full-on gaming PC, and I don't just wanna get another Mac.
I also don't want a gaming laptop, because those things are HEAVY, and the plan is to keep Nuke for school, and then have a PC for
just work.
Anyways, that's pretty much all I wanted to complain about. Thx for reading! :)
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localfox
Maybe look into something like a lenovo thinkpad? worksite laptops can be awesome, I personally love mine.