PC crash, Mac mini rescue
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verushka70My PC died yesterday. Absolutely died; total crash; wouldn't even power up. The diagnostic lights tell me it's a problem with the power supply (which I'd already replaced once, back in August or September). Bought another at Fry's, slapped it in, reconnected all the CD/DVD/floppy/internal drives.
Then the diagnostic lights tell me it's the motherboard, not the power supply. Frak me.
But I had my Mac mini that I haven't had time to play with or really use since last summer. So I slapped that on the Ethernet cable from the DSL. Hooked up the PC's monitor, keyboard & mouse. Start up the Mac, and presto, the DSL is working immediately, without a hitch. Right away, I'm on the net, and I've got my usual apps already on the Mac (Word, Excel, etc.).
Now, I'm a technogeek from way back (1988... mainframe... you don't want to know). I've built my own computer; I've configured shitloads of PCs for use on networks, wired and wireless, all using some form of Windows. I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS, PCs are never that simple to get started on. NEVER. There's always a slew of bullshit control panels or Windows wizards you have to step through just to get things configured. This Mac? Just lets me surf immediately. Later on it pops up a window informing me that it's working. No shit!
Why can't Microsoft make an operating system this simple and easy to immediately use?
And I say that as someone who has built her own PC in the past, and is a PC and Mac user.
Whatever... Now my only problem is to get all the files off the hard drive of the crashed PC! But I'm going to buy an external hard drive case with USB 2.0 connector and slap the drive into there. Then I can just use it like an external drive and copy all my files (and fic!) onto the Mac. Yay!
Then the diagnostic lights tell me it's the motherboard, not the power supply. Frak me.
But I had my Mac mini that I haven't had time to play with or really use since last summer. So I slapped that on the Ethernet cable from the DSL. Hooked up the PC's monitor, keyboard & mouse. Start up the Mac, and presto, the DSL is working immediately, without a hitch. Right away, I'm on the net, and I've got my usual apps already on the Mac (Word, Excel, etc.).
Now, I'm a technogeek from way back (1988... mainframe... you don't want to know). I've built my own computer; I've configured shitloads of PCs for use on networks, wired and wireless, all using some form of Windows. I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS, PCs are never that simple to get started on. NEVER. There's always a slew of bullshit control panels or Windows wizards you have to step through just to get things configured. This Mac? Just lets me surf immediately. Later on it pops up a window informing me that it's working. No shit!
Why can't Microsoft make an operating system this simple and easy to immediately use?
And I say that as someone who has built her own PC in the past, and is a PC and Mac user.
Whatever... Now my only problem is to get all the files off the hard drive of the crashed PC! But I'm going to buy an external hard drive case with USB 2.0 connector and slap the drive into there. Then I can just use it like an external drive and copy all my files (and fic!) onto the Mac. Yay!
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Date: 2007-03-07 02:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-07 04:44 pm (UTC)I am so DONE with all that PC bullshit!