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greyias ([personal profile] greyias) wrote2009-02-18 07:22 pm
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Uh-oh...

Windows XP installation appears to be ready to work on the Mini... *crosses fingers* Wish me luck!

ETA: Partitioning...ning... successful! Next phase!

ETA2: Uh... crap. Something tells me "SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED" is a bad message. ABORT/RETRY/IGNORE? A-A-A-A-A-A.

ETA3: Oh, I have GUI again! Phew!

ETA4: And now I have a desktop. Things are looking up... now just have to see if I can get audio and wireless working...

ETA5: And now I have wireless internet, and a computer that boots up when I tell it to, and Firefox, and will soon have Open Office, and--er, still no sound. Working on that... ETA6: even sound. How did that happen? *scratches head* It is now a usable computer! \o/ Fully functioning even!
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[personal profile] aelfgyfu_mead 2009-02-19 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Ah. I keep hoping to find other Mac geeks.

[identity profile] greyias.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
One day I'm sure I'll be made a convert of ;) I actually probably would have gotten a Mac for my newest PC if I didn't want the touchscreen/tablet capability so much.
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[identity profile] friendshipper.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Me!

(They are damned expensive, though. XD My husband buys a new laptop and it's $600; mine was $1500. It's just not fair, I tell ya.)
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[personal profile] aelfgyfu_mead 2009-02-19 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
I had a Mac laptop that lasted seven years and survived travel to Europe and back. My latest one wimped out at four years; we generally get much more out of them. When I think of how fast some of my friends' computers have gone, and how much time a few have wasted on viruses and crashes, I think I'm doing okay.

My new MacBook was just over $1000 and it's very spiffy!

Always happy to find a fellow Apple Geek! (I bet Sam and Daniel would use Macs if they could!)
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[identity profile] friendshipper.livejournal.com 2009-02-19 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
My last laptop, the very first iBook purchased in Fairbanks (according to the guy at the store), lasted ten years. I will add the caveat that I maxed it out on RAM in the beginning, and swapped out its 3 Gb hard drive for a 20 Gb about halfway through, and during the last couple of years of its life, all I ever used it for (all it could really manage with OS X installed) was web surfing and text editing, while my main machine was a desktop. Still, I dragged it all over the continent, to conventions, to rural Alaska; I spilled a cup of tea and a glass of wine on its keyboard/hard drive, dropped it, froze it, got it wet, got it dirty. And it's still alive; it's just been gracefully retired in favor of its replacement (Fleetwood MacBook, which I'm currently typing on). I never had a virus, and I had only one hard drive crash necessitating an OS reinstall in the very beginning, which I think was basically just bad luck, since it never repeated in all the years I used it.

I loved that thing.
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