We’ve all been there. Your old computer is dying, and however much some of you may drag your feet — whether out of loyalty to the computer or to your wallet — you’re going to need a new one. And you know what that means… having to set up all your preferences all over again.
I bring this up now because I myself have just gotten a new laptop, and I was surprised to find that it’s been a lot easier than anticipated. There were, of course, a number of applications to install in the new computer, and if there’s one thing I learned from sorting through files to transfer, it’s that most of what I had saved should’ve been deleted as soon as I was done with it, but on the whole the process was no worse than mildly tedious. Even logging in to all of my usual websites has been easy — my default browser saved all of my passwords to my account, so all I had to do was type out the URL and hit “Log In.”
Overall, I’ve just been really impressed with how smoothly the transition has gone — besides the new computer running better, and the fact that I sometimes accidentally search two or three letter gibberish because I haven’t visited the site enough yet for URL prediction, it’s really easy to forget that I switched computers at all.
