I need to get a new case for my computer.
It is a very old computer.
2019 MacBook Pro, 16 inches.
It is extremely heavy and hurts my wrists whenever I type because I rest my arms on the big clunky touchpad and the keys are greasy from my fingers and the display has a weird discolored bar on the left side because I must've banged it on a table or dropped it or did something. I don't know.
I have had this computer since sophomore year of high school, when I did my very first graphic design project designing a poster for my church Christmas party.
It cost my parents a couple thousand dollars. By then I'd convinced them that I was going to art school, but don't worry! I'll major in graphic design! So I definitely need this fancy computer with the processing power of a small country.
It has no external functions except for four (4) usb-c ports. I have to get adapters for sim cards, HDMIs, basically anything of substance.
I think the 2019 Macbooks were the only ones with the little screen atop the keyboard and four identical ports.
Apple changed it back a year later once they realized no one wanted four fucking identical ports.
Oh well.
Guess I should've waited another year.
My computer's been through a lot.
Like a wizened whore.
Or a semi-retired racing dog.
I learned how to torrent illegal movies on this computer.
I learned how to fiddle with the custom desktop theme on my Tumblr page dedicated to Star Wars fanfiction on this computer.
I learned how to print off free sheet music on this computer.
I learned everything I know about design and art on this one, clunky, heavy, old and dying computer.
Yes, it is dying.
Pages are slower to load.
I need to quit and refresh things more and more often.
One day, the stripe on my screen will go from a mildly discolored nuisance to a vomiting, unignorable crash.
But for now, it is mine.
PDFs. EPUBs. Photos. Files.
It's all mine.
Forever.