My life is going to be better
November 11th, 2004
Last
week I bought a new laptop on Ebay and, giddy with childish excitement,
I received it on Monday. It’s a Sony Vaio Z1MP, now christened the
Zimp, and although I’m acutely aware of the fallacy of Brand right
now (I’m reading No
Logo and saw The Corporation last
week – excellent, by the way), I can’t help but succumb to the feeling:
Now I have this machine, my life is going to be better.
And I don’t even mean ‘better’ in specific ways. Yes, I can now watch DVD’s on the train; Yes, writing or web work is now possible at something like a reasonable tick (instead of my current machine where I can get some decent slow-wave sleep whilst it switches applications). But it’s nothing to do with these crude tangibles. I’m ashamed to say the feeling is purely aspirational.
The laptop is a lifestyle object, and a damn sexy one at that. As I tap away at my kitchen table before wirelessly connecting to upload this piece, with the Vaio I feel a little more like I’m living in the future. And I don’t care what you think about that because now my life is going to be better.