My computer has been suffering. I got a bigass hard drive for it (Seagate barracuda 750 GB 7200), but I realized that my power supply does not have any SATA power cables. Then... okay, let me back up. In addition to my broken XP install, the machine has had problems with the chipset fan for a while. It was never really a problem, but it always gave me an error booting up that the chipset fan was not up to speed. Well, after I opened the case and discovered that my new hard drive would not have power, I put everything back the way it was and lo! my CPU fan was not working. With both CPU and chipset fans broken, the computer overheats. I could probably fix it, but instead I bought a laptop.
I needed a laptop anyway. I'm starting classes this week, and I think a laptop is going to be an important factor in my scholarly success. So I told my desktop (which has been a headache since I first assembled it) where it can stick it and bought a macbook.
When I was younger, I was pretty much comfortable with any OS. I could get around in DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME, NT, and 2000, Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, and various flavors of Linux. For a long time I used Windows 2000 almost exclusively, except at work, where I used OS9. Then OSX and XP came out, and Linux pretty much died among my friends, and though I always loved OSX I ended up using XP exclusively. I grew to hate my lack of OS diversity. The more I followed the flavors of OSX, the more certain I was that I wanted it on my next machine. I didn't actually get a new machine, though, for many years--I just limped along my Windows desktop, replacing and updating as needed. But I considered the failure of my desktop, combined with my needing a laptop for school, to be sufficient reason to make the plunge.
I needed a laptop anyway. I'm starting classes this week, and I think a laptop is going to be an important factor in my scholarly success. So I told my desktop (which has been a headache since I first assembled it) where it can stick it and bought a macbook.
When I was younger, I was pretty much comfortable with any OS. I could get around in DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME, NT, and 2000, Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, and various flavors of Linux. For a long time I used Windows 2000 almost exclusively, except at work, where I used OS9. Then OSX and XP came out, and Linux pretty much died among my friends, and though I always loved OSX I ended up using XP exclusively. I grew to hate my lack of OS diversity. The more I followed the flavors of OSX, the more certain I was that I wanted it on my next machine. I didn't actually get a new machine, though, for many years--I just limped along my Windows desktop, replacing and updating as needed. But I considered the failure of my desktop, combined with my needing a laptop for school, to be sufficient reason to make the plunge.