win some, lose some

[kaigou]

Well, wiped the drive & upgraded, and now I have to (a) figure out wtf Mac has changed for all its settings, (b) wtf is up with making me use my admin pw for EVERYTHING, and the most important, (c) MAKING IT DO WHAT I WANT. Sadly, experience has taught me it's the last that'll take the longest (if it's ever achieved). On the plus side, very speedy now! Though I wonder how much of that is because my address book got messed up and/or didn't save to the backup drive, and now... well, that was a lot of addresses. Guess I just need to spend a few days convincing myself that I didn't want to write any of you, anyway. Sheesh. It's always something...

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[kaigou]

Honestly, I have no idea. The irony about the complaint I'm about to repeat is that it's now moot (since my laptop died a quiet death right when we arrived at the hotel, two weekends ago, while travelling) -- but only with Snow Leopard did I discover that my laptop could no longer be upgraded. Like, at all. Improper type of harddrive or whatever, I can't recall now. Essentially rendered obsolete by the company's own OS, which was a first for me, at least in terms of Macs. Then again, most people I know don't have laptops that are ten years old & still working fine.

Well, was working fine. Now it's just... spontaneously dead. Though it does seem suspicious to me that it went through TSA's box o' microwaves and then it died. But still, I got ten years out of it, so I don't think I can complain all that much. Relatively speaking.

[phoebe_zeitgeist]

I suddenly feel a powerful sense of kinship. My Pismo currently lives with friends in New York, so that I can travel there and bring only a portable hard drive if necessary, but it still works and I still use it from time to time. I haven't even tried to upgrade the OS beyond Panther, and it is true that the chip is really too slow for .mkv video. But otherwise? Last time I looked, it was still working, and I will mourn it when the day comes that it doesn't.