Planned Obsolesence is a Dirty Trick

As I write this sentence, I can hear my computer struggling to churn out the words that I prompt to it. My HP Pavilion dv6 laptop is old, and it’s very clearly on its last legs. Certain programs are now unusable for reasons that go beyond my comprehension, and streaming video causes the system to freeze, giving me no recourse other than to force shut down this beast.

Aside from the inconvenience of having my computer throw in the towel mere weeks before I am able to cross the finish line of my undergraduate collegiate career, there are other things that I miss out on, like sports, for instance. Sports are an integral component to generating content here at Blake’s Bellyaching, and now unless I go watch ESPN at a bar with the sound off, I’m out of the loop.

I don’t know quite what I’m reaching for here, but I miss being able to watch sports on my computer. These days I’m spending entirely too much money at restaurants when I could be watching baseball on my couch, and it’s all because HP designed this computer with the planned obsolescence so that an incoming college freshman would be buying a new system in three and a half years. I have a Slingbox connected at home that has gone unused for three weeks now and that is unacceptable! I WANT TO WATCH BASEBALL!