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//This is an inspirational story of how I came to being attached to a piece of technology that holds my entire life, inside and out, holds the history, present and potentially bright future in itself-I present you my HP 530 personal laptop.// Knocking at the door of adulthood, geared up with advice from Grandma and parents, I started what was to be the journey of my life- moving out from home to attend university in the big city. Heading off to a professional, emotional and personal maturing, I needed a vital management system that would build a holistic view towards my life.I decided on the final configuration -I got my Intel(R))Core (TM)Duo CPU T2300 1.66GHZ, 1.99GB of RAM memory, 120 GB hard drive space, Wi-Fi enabled.
 * // Assignment 1-Personal inspirational story //**
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Excitement started building up around this piece of technology.It has successfully made me sleeping for only few hours a night almost 5 nights in a row.It was a happy place that I needed to revisit, a window to a world of so much potential. I was already familiar with the operating system and basic computer use, but at that point in my life I had so much to learn. I needed to learn about freedom my personal computer offered me and was eager to embrace it. A personal laptop suggested privacy because it was no longer a desktop computer to be shared with my younger brother, it was my own portable computer.

The Internet combined with the mobility my laptop gave me made many educational day-to-day activities more efficient. It helped me be up to date on everthing.It made me feel more important, more mature and as they say an already 'academic citizen', even though 4 years away frome earning a formal credential.

Over time another form of being was being constructed as mingling with the Internet. Chat zones transcend space and help discover new you, as you exponentially grow your network of people. Even this is a potentially vulnerable method of letting people in your virtual world, it still gave the opportunity to explore with identity, with trying on new persona, studying, with dating.

What I know now about potentials of the little high gloss screen in front of me, was never anticipated. I am writing this while trying to sync my computer with my cousin`s laptop in Europe, with my brother`s gaming console and with my own iPod. I am doing all that while using something at the base of all aspects of society- classification. The folder system, a typical example of classification helps me find and control peripheral devices connected from one central location (my computer). Searching (one step retrieval of information) and browsing (multiple steps, branched down way of searching) both enabled by classification help me track data on my laptop.

My laptop is my democracy tool, the one that has given me the power to control what I see and when I see it. It has helped me control the type, the rate, potentially all aspects of the information I need…because this is my world, my family, friends, my school, my music and my interests, cause it is all about ME. And I certain this is true love, not lust but technology love, because I successfully resist the temptation of switching to that cool lightened apple many of my friends are trying to tempt me in class with…huh nice try.