{"id":872,"date":"2008-07-03T15:28:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T21:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=872"},"modified":"2008-07-03T15:31:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T21:31:32","slug":"mac-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Mac Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, money comes and money goes. The day I got two months worth of grant funding, my computer broke. It works, but with the Airport dead, the casing battered, the battery dead, the power cord bent, I just decided to invest my newfound fortune into a Macbook Pro. It came yesterday — I saved about $500 by getting the 2.4 Ghz model off Amazon rather than the 2.5 Ghz model from Apple.<\/p>\n

Of course, it was a while before I could enjoy the thing. Before even typing my first letter, I had to:<\/p>\n

  • Set up an initial account on OS X 10.4.<\/li>\n
  • Transfer over the wife’s stuff, which Mac make ridiculously easy with their migrate utility.<\/li>\n
  • Log in as her and transfer my stuff, because it required over-writing my account. I usually, when getting a new computer, prefer to transfer stuff piecemeal. I’m mildly obssessed with computer clutter and hate to transfer over the organic mess of files. I prefer to pick applications, files, folders and leave everything else to be deleted. But Mac’s migration function — plus the intimidation factor of moving 33 GB worth of music and family photos — nixed my little neurotic quirk.<\/li>\n
  • Of course, then I needed to download all the 10.4 updates, which required several reboots.<\/li>\n
  • Then I upgraded the powerbook to 10.5.<\/li>\n
  • Then it was time to download and install all the 10.5 upgrades.<\/li>\n
  • Finally, I needed to reinstall iWork and some of my professional applications, which require licensing, etc.<\/li>\n

    All of this was interspersed with the wife poking her head in the door every half hour and starting the following conservation.<\/p>\n

    Sue: So how do you like it?<\/p>\n

    Me: I’ll let you know when I’m done updating it.<\/p>\n

    Sue: Still?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    I eventually went out into the living room to watch John Adams<\/i> with her while the Mac churned away.<\/p>\n

    I finally finished everything after about six hours. And after one day, I’ll just say that it’s sweet. The installed iSight rocks. None of my applications stall or die. I haven’t seen the spinning beach ball of death yet. I’m even enjoying Spaces and Front Row. And it’s nice at work, since it’s a 17″ model and I no longer have to hunch over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Well, money comes and money goes. The day I got two months worth of grant funding, my computer broke. It works, but with the Airport dead, the casing battered, the battery dead, the power cord bent, I just decided to invest my newfound fortune into a Macbook Pro. It came yesterday — I saved about … Continue reading Mac Attack<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-e4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}