If you have the new Mac OS X Leopard, be sure to run your software update to get the latest updates to the Leopard system.
I like the new taskbar Time Machine icon. It’s definitely better than clicking through System Preferences to see the status of my backups!
I’ve yet to see too many other changes but if there’s something significant I’ll definitely report it here. Cheers!
After my hard drive died on me Thursday, I quickly found a replacement and it’s no slouch. At 7200 rpm, 16mb of cache, and 200GB of storage space, this new Hitachi drive is a good swap.
Thanks to Leopard and the Time Machine, restoring my system was just a matter of time, but the restoration was relatively easy and painless. It’s a whole lot better than having to reinstall all my software if I was running on XP or even worse — Vista. Thankfully this new drive has a three year warranty, and as long as I keep backing up my data, I’m sure I’ll be fine.
To thee I drop this crimson rose,
To mourn the worn out head.
You served me well,
You took whatever I could throw at you.
Now you lay with data still in platter,
Now you spin without a stir.
May you remember all I transfered,
May you hold the secrets left in bits.
Yes it’s true. The 5400rpm hard drive of the beloved blackBook has “headed out” and refuses to be recognized. I write this on the dusty XP system, staring at the lifeless blackBook that is in desperate need of a hard drive transplant. It was the heart of all that the blackBook featured, and now it lies motionless.
Thank goodness I backed up its memories before they could be lost forever. Rest in peace little mobile drive, and may the computer gods use your platter for better purposes.
This morning is a sad morning. I tried waking my MacBook from its deep sleep, only to be presented with the beachball of death. Seeing that I could do nothing else, I turned off my MacBook like I always do when there is a freeze (very rare). When I took the MacBook to school with me and tried to turn it on, after a few tries to access the hard drive, I got the even more evil flashing question mark! Noo!
From what I have read, this is due to either a dead hard drive, a corrupt system file, or a missing boot file. Either way, that beach ball of death was responsible and now I have to wait until I get home to see whether I can recover my system, recover my files, or if I’ll need a new hard drive. So sad.
On the bright side of things, my whole system was backed up thanks to Time Machine, so whether I can recover my system or not, everything will be back to normal and all my files will still be there waiting for me. All 70Gb of files.
Wish me luck!
- Slightly Scared
The keynote was definitely not disappointing, albeit not as groundbreaking as when the iPhone was announced. Despite the upgrades that only affect iPhone and AppleTV users, those devices are definitely a lot more attractive now.
The most exciting announcement was the world’s thinnest notebook — the MacBook Air. The price point of $1799 is not surprising considering how much technology was packed into such a small notebook, but it would be great to see how much more powerful Intel can make processors of similar size. The idea of having a thin and light notebook to do all your little tasks and leaving the big jobs to the desktop machines is a great idea. I hope PC laptops start to take notice of this methodology and bring down the prices on the thinner and less powerful notebooks.
2008 will most likely be another great year for Apple and I’m sure all the Apple stockholders will be ecstatic.