A Christmas tale
Once upon a time there was a young man that worked a lot on christmas with his laptop. Of all christmas there was one only that on which he had so much work he just needed to get all done in no time. It could be destiny or just bad luck, but just when those christmas days were beginning, the laptop stopped working and the young man had to send it to costumer service. Even without his laptop, the young man worked as hard as he could.
The laptop was one of a kind. Robust, powerful, beautiful. As the man usually worked with virtual machines he needed a lot of memory, so he bought 4GB RAM when he started working with that laptop. That didn’t work out of the box because of some memory mapping problems with the graphics chip, but there was a official bios update that fixed the problem, so nothing could go better.
When he got his laptop back, the young man was very happy. But happiness usually doesn’t last too much. The memory mapping bug was back, and when he tried to update the bios, he found out the motherboard was different and there weren’t any compatible bios updates. When looking for a solution, he discovered this problem was unsolved since 9 months ago, and the manufacturer remained in silence, ignoring their costumer’s requests. When he read the four character name of the manufacturer he felt hatred. Not only against them, but against all manufacturers in general. It happened with one manufacturer this time, but previously it was with other, and sure it will happen again and again.
And thus this tale ends with a laptop that feels horribly different to how it felt before supposedly getting repaired.
Moral: You cannot trust any manufacturer, it always comes down to this as they grow.
