A Colorado man finally had enough of his troublesome computer and did what pretty much everyone has fantasised about: He shot and killed it.

Lucas Hinch, 37, was issued a summons by Colorado Springs police after he shot his 2012 Dell XPS 410 eight times in an alley, police said.

The computer after Lucas Hinch shot it eight times. Credit:Colorado Springs Police Department

"He was fed up with fighting his computer for the last several months," according to the police log.

Under most circumstances, it is illegal to fire a gun in Colorado Springs, about 100 kilometres south of Denver. There is no law on the books about machine homicide, police said.