Yep,indeed Franck.(Excuse me while I invoke the ghost of Esther Rantzen...).
My first MD-an old style SonyMD,not even a net MD,stopped recording a while back-approx 3 years after I bought it.At least it APPEARED to be recording,and then nothing was there on PB.You can imagine how maddening that is for a pro muso.
Next,I bought another one to record on,and that developed the exact same problem within FIVE DAYS
(You can imagine how maddening that is for a pro muso). Currently in litigation with Sony on that one.Meanwhile I tried to do an innocent edit on MD number one-move a track or something,and it blanked the whole disc
(You can imagine how maddening that is for a pro ...etc).Five hours of work/music down the drain without trace.
Sent number one off for repair-bottom line £72 to fix it,£30 odd just to look it over if they couldn't fix it.'We'll turn it round in 15 days',I was told breezily down the phone.Here I am,41 days later.They sent me a letter saying 'yes,it has been fixed,pay £72 please,no cheques',so I rang them next day,gave them my credit details,sat back to wait for it to plop onto my doormat.
Meanwhile it was my birthday,and my beloved,seeing my plight,forked out for a brand new one from the local Sony shop.And this is a HiMD!! Upload to computer! Download from computer!! record mp3s,HiMD MDLP etc etc wayhay! except....it doesn't work on a Mac.Which they hadn't told her,despite her asking.
(You can imagine how maddening that is for ..etc).Incredibly Sony have only lately got around to making a model which is Mac compatible,despite 90% of MD users being pro musicians who are more than likely to use a Mac.
So I had to go back to the shop,give back the (otherwise useless) HiMD and fork out an extra £90 [what] for the Mac compatible one.Which IS great....at least,I've had it a couple of weeks now and it hasn't YET shown any signs of fucking up.
Meanwhile,where's number one? I rang them today
-'Er ,where is the MD you're supposed to have repaired which I paid £72 for about 4 weeks ago?'
'Oh Mr King,we're glad you phoned,your credit card wouldn't work'
(Turns out that the dork who answered the phone first time round got the numbers on my card wrong.)
'Oh,so why didn't you ring me and tell me?'
'Oh yes,I suppose we could have done that.Hmm,and we have your email too,we could have emailed you too couldn't we?'
'Yes,you could have.' [fire] [fire] [fire]
I await the plop on the doormat...
I have a nice little laptop already which was a present, I've used it a lot and it's still fine apart from the fact that the sound has gone on it. Not sure how I managed to break that. 
Anyway I'm thinking I should use this money toward a desktop PC rather than another laptop, but I don't know if the one I've settled on is a decent make/specs etc for the money. I'd have to put a hundred quid to it myself so I don't want to get something that isn't any good. If any of the board techies can give me the heads up I'd be most grateful.
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