Flist, meet Galen. Galen, flist.
Jan. 8th, 2009 02:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urbandruidSo. This one's coming to you from Galen, my shiny new silver MacBook Pro laptop. he is very shiny and new, has a TON of memory, and I do mean a ton (~260 GB, and that's after I started loading software and all my music.)
I love this thing.
I have, however, learned several things I thought I'd share.
1. When they said "You can only load Windows if you have XP with Service Pack 2 or later" they didn't mean this as a suggestion. Because like a dumbass I tried it without on Tuesday (Anna has SP2, but I had to download it, so it's not on the disc) and immediately regretted it. The hard drive is supposed to get partitioned off, so that there's a section that can run Windows, but apparently if your Windows is too old and you're an idiot like me, you end up converting your whole freaking hard drive to NTFS, which is the Windows file format, which Mac OS can do crap all with.
Two hours on the phone with some really nice tech support people, then an appointment at my local Apple Store (yes, they do appointments- I didn't know that either), one reformatted drive later, I was back in business. Thank Gods I didn't have much of anything on it at that point.
2. They're very nice at Apple, both on the phone and in the stores.
3. The new clicky trackpad thingy is nifty, but I need a damn mouse. I have trackpad wrist already.
4. I hate Windows a little more every time I have to boot up Anna to do something, and the sooner I can get my stuff off, the happier I'll be.
And last but not least, 5. It's going to be a hell of a lot easier to get my stuff off of Anna if my CD drive is, in fact, back. And it does seem to be. I'm not sure exactly why it's back or how it got that way, but since I wasn't sure why it disappeared in the first place, I guess this shouldn't be too surprising.
In other news, I really should be in bed already, but I'm not actually all that tired. Probably has something to do with the phone waking me up at 9:00AM Wednesday. I decided that was too early, so I went back to bed, and got up at, um, quarter after 1:00. ...Yeah. I'm going to be hating life next week when I (ugh) start back to school. Which I don't really want to think about. I'm starting to get a little bored now and then, so probably starting back to classes is a good thing, but I swear, sometimes I hate winter break. I just get used to having time off, and they want me back.
Or maybe it's the fact I spend half my 'vacation' doing holiday stuff with my family, which sometimes isn't all that, ya know, relaxing?
And I so wanted to be in London this semester. Campus is going to seem pretty bleak when I head back, and I don't think that's helping my mood any.
Ah well. It's 3AM now, I suppose I ought to go at least try and sleep.
I love this thing.
I have, however, learned several things I thought I'd share.
1. When they said "You can only load Windows if you have XP with Service Pack 2 or later" they didn't mean this as a suggestion. Because like a dumbass I tried it without on Tuesday (Anna has SP2, but I had to download it, so it's not on the disc) and immediately regretted it. The hard drive is supposed to get partitioned off, so that there's a section that can run Windows, but apparently if your Windows is too old and you're an idiot like me, you end up converting your whole freaking hard drive to NTFS, which is the Windows file format, which Mac OS can do crap all with.
Two hours on the phone with some really nice tech support people, then an appointment at my local Apple Store (yes, they do appointments- I didn't know that either), one reformatted drive later, I was back in business. Thank Gods I didn't have much of anything on it at that point.
2. They're very nice at Apple, both on the phone and in the stores.
3. The new clicky trackpad thingy is nifty, but I need a damn mouse. I have trackpad wrist already.
4. I hate Windows a little more every time I have to boot up Anna to do something, and the sooner I can get my stuff off, the happier I'll be.
And last but not least, 5. It's going to be a hell of a lot easier to get my stuff off of Anna if my CD drive is, in fact, back. And it does seem to be. I'm not sure exactly why it's back or how it got that way, but since I wasn't sure why it disappeared in the first place, I guess this shouldn't be too surprising.
In other news, I really should be in bed already, but I'm not actually all that tired. Probably has something to do with the phone waking me up at 9:00AM Wednesday. I decided that was too early, so I went back to bed, and got up at, um, quarter after 1:00. ...Yeah. I'm going to be hating life next week when I (ugh) start back to school. Which I don't really want to think about. I'm starting to get a little bored now and then, so probably starting back to classes is a good thing, but I swear, sometimes I hate winter break. I just get used to having time off, and they want me back.
Or maybe it's the fact I spend half my 'vacation' doing holiday stuff with my family, which sometimes isn't all that, ya know, relaxing?
And I so wanted to be in London this semester. Campus is going to seem pretty bleak when I head back, and I don't think that's helping my mood any.
Ah well. It's 3AM now, I suppose I ought to go at least try and sleep.
