Yes, this is yet another I-hate-the-service-laptop post.

My laptop needs to stay at the service center because its hinge was dismantled, and I’ve experienced 3 blue screens while I was creating the ticket for it (how timely huh?).

Anyway, I was given one service laptop. I find it nice ‘coz it has PS on it. Cool huh? The problem was there was no (client-related) application tools installed on it. So how could I possibly work? So I thought of installing the needed tools. Guess what? Nope, it doesn’t allow any installation from non-admin users.

Fortunately, one (newly-resigned) employee’s laptop was available. I grabbed the opportunity and told the Admin assistant I’ll be getting that instead.

Still I hate it because:
- It has no tool that I can use for queries. Useless. So I kept bugging the duty managers to do the queries for me. If it becomes complicated, I started bugging the DBAs.
- It has no communicator / chat that we officially use for work. Thank goodness for Yahoo Messenger.
- No flash player. Well, not that I need this for work. It’s just nice that when one officemate shows you a video, you can ACTUALLY watch it.
- No PS. Hmm, not work-related. Still, I hate it for that.
- IT DOESN’T ALLOW ANY INSTALLATION. Yes, no plugins!!! Ugh!
- SD drive does not work!!! Duh?!!

Service laptops are the pits!

Disclaimer: I’m using the desktop while blogging.