return of the broken laptop

Back in China, I am not a fan of laptops and even don't have one, for I prefer the desktop computer, and just use my smartphone and hotel computers while on business trips. Before leaving for New Haven, I had to brought with me a laptop for the assignments, so I borrowed my wife's ACER. She, however, backuped all her personal stuff on that laptop before giving it to me, and implied that her Acer maybe would not return to China safe and sound, since I had "accidentally" ruined one laptop and one iphone in the past two years. 

unfortunately, her prediction came true ten days ago. I poured a glass of water on the working laptop, and failed to shut it down in the first time. minutes later, there was smoke out of the laptop, accompanied by the strong smell of burning plastics. my heart sank down with it. 

to some extent,  I was optimistic and tried to make it up by getting a new one, so I went to the apple shop, and found this one.  

mac Pro with its retailing price shown on the screen

the price is good, but the state tax made me think twice. why not try to live without a laptop, and read more? consequently, in the past ten days, i spent my time in Bass and Sterling, using public desktops and roaming among the book shelves.

the information center in Bass

selfie, in 2m Sterling

the day before yesterday, I, believing the water inside the machine has been dried,  rebooted the laptop. to my great surprise, it is working as perfect as before. 

If I am going to buy a laptop next time, it must be an Acer!