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PC crash, Mac mini rescue
Mar. 7th, 2007 12:45 amMy 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.).
( mini rant on the simplicity of Macs vs. complexity of network setup on PCs )
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.).
( mini rant on the simplicity of Macs vs. complexity of network setup on PCs )
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!
