More Chinese Village

Wow. I just went through and redid my color and gamma settings on my laptop with custom settings. Using windows guide to properly set up my screen. Good lord it’s like a new computer. The before and after is huge and I just can’t believe that before I thought the colors were correct. And that was just gamma. I don’t know how to properly customize and optimize the color scheme. I now understand why on photographer websites you can buy machines that optimize the color perfectly. This is like night and day. I am so glad I always save the original file of my photos; it looks like I will have to go through and re-edit almost everything. I almost want to wait till I can return to the USA where I can buy a big cheap clunker of a screen as I have read those are the easiest and best for photography work. They are “more accurate” when it comes to colors etc, also being easier to calibrate. I defiantly will buy a big heavy screen when I get home. Now they should be dirt dirt cheap.
This computer I think has almost had it. Turning it on or off is a real ritual now. Turning on is worse. I often have to wait a long time as the computer fans, processors turn on, I know they are on as I can hear them but the computer does not boot up. I have found that taking the battery out then putting it back in sometimes helps. Sometimes I just must wait as the computer attempts to boot up which can take up to twelve times. I think there are problems with the electricity. I would not be surprised if soon it completely short circuits and I lose this thing altogether. I need to get this back to Wuhan and back it up. I was thinking of buying a larger hard drive for it and just dealing with the slowness but if this thing is kaput I might just try to use it as long as I can and get a new one when I return to the use. Ill probably try to sell this to someone in the USA for maybe 200$ I doubt ill get much more than that for it. And well try to buy a new laptop. I can only hope I guess. Unless we still have a computer at home? I know then it be a lot cheaper to install some new specialized hardware on a machine like that than it would be to get a laptop with features. I will have to see what is available at home. I do believe however that nothing is rightly available. But who knows craigslist is always full of other people’s crap. Not to mention by the time I get home it will soon be back to school sales at all the electronic stores. I should be able to find something.