i am mentally exhausted after the last two days!

[swingchickie]

thank you everyone who worked so valiantly to fix my evil computer problems. what i got from the threads here, plus folks at work and on apple tech support, was that even though *technically* leopard should have eventually worked on my computer... what i was doing was kinda like trying to put high-performance NASCAR race wheels on a schwinn.

so i bought a new computer instead.

i just got to a point last night, after being on the phone with apple support for 45 minutes and my computer still going "baroo?", where i had to force myself to wave the white flag. i've had my imac for about 6 years now, and have never upgraded the memory or the operating system... a lot has changed in 6 years, and now that i want to do something other than check my e-mail and play The Sims, i was shown just how outdated it is. it makes me so sad -- mine is the very first imac with the dome base, and i looove it... even after 6 years, i look at it and think it's hawt. even last night in the apple store, i was looking at the newer imacs and thinking, "mine is sexier". and of course, with a new roof being built this weekend and a kitchen to fix, opening up a line of credit for a computer made me pretty sick to my stomach. normally i loooove shopping, but this time it was out of necessity and not fun. i just have to keep reminding myself that i can close the credit line as soon as i get my first bill, and that it'll be paid off in just a few months. i'll be much hapier then.

so... i went portable this time and got a macbook. one of the snazzy black ones that's screamingly fast and can hold a ton of schtuff. i turned it on last night, and it calmed me down a bit by singing a little "hi! i'm your new computer!" song: "doo do doo, doo do doo..." it was very cheery (good job, apple). AND, what made me feel a MILLION times better: as i went through the setup, it said, "do you have an old mac that you want to transfer files from?" and i said "why YES i do!" and plugged in a firewire cable to connect them, and 45 minutes later my new computer had everything transferred over. that rocked so hardcore.

so, this weekend, while 4 guys rip off my roof, i will be holed up inside building a new website for tailspin. and by the end of the weekend, i should have a new roof and a new website all ready to go. yay!

Comments

[southstman.livejournal.com]

yay!!

sometimes you just have to wave that good ol' white flag! ;)

[viellen]

Nice! We're now on the same computer :)

So, you were trying to install Leopard on a machine with less than 1 gHz and possibly 256 MBs of RAM? Ouch, yes, I can see how you ran into issues.

That Macbook is going to blow your mind! How exciting.

[swingchickie.livejournal.com]

mmmmyyyyyeah... *sheepish grin* in my defense, i DID update the RAM to 512, but i know that's still the bare minimum for leopard to run.

funny thing was, the tech support guy on the phone last night was like, "i think it's the DVD, we'll send you a new one that should arrive in about a week". and me, the technopeasant, was like, "um, i can't wait a week and i donnnnnn't think it's the disc."

[boutell.livejournal.com]

Well done dear.

> so, this weekend, while 4 guys rip off my roof,
> i will be holed up inside building a new
> website for tailspin.

There are not enough air quotes in the world to adequately pornify this.

[boutell.livejournal.com]

P.S. Over the years I've become a great advocate of buying the already-freaking-working computer that you freaking need. This reflects the fact that like a lot of grownups, I have a little money and I value my time. Same reason I won't save $30 by taking a two-stopover redeye.

Except, just now I find myself back in the other category: "oops I seem to have time and not a whole lot of damn money coming in." So I need to get my thinking back to "creatively cheap," at least until the "find a new cash cow" subroutine triumphs.

[xtingu]

Yay! Congrats on the new addition-- feels nice, doesn't it?