Time for an upgrade!!
After 2.5 years of abuse, my white Gen One MacBook will be getting a little rest. Last week, I was in the middle of surfing the internet when my MacBook decided to give up on me. It just shut down for no reason. So, I pushed the power button and it tried and tried to start up again but just couldn’t boot up. I thought it was because it ran out of battery power but nope, it was plugged in. Boo….
So, I gave it a rest, turned it back on, and it started working again! Sweet! That following weekend I took it with me to Phoenix and as I was using it on the plane (not plugged in of course), it died within a matter of 7 minutes!! What the heck?!
Last night, we went to the Apple Store to see what could be done and I guess the battery was just plain dead. We purchased a new battery for $125 and I ended up taking home a brand new MacBook Pro too!! Woohoo!!! I had contemplated an upgrade a while back but decided that I could wait. About 6 months later, I am now an owner of my second mac. It’s bigger, brighter, faster, and oh so pretty. Merry Christmas to me!
I was also surprised at how simple it was to migrate the entire contents of my old harddrive to the new one. It only took an ethernet cable and a couple clicks of the mouse to get me up and running. I didn’t need to reinstall applications. I didn’t even need to reset my desktop image. Amazing.
Johnny
Wednesday, December 10, 2008powerbook almost 4 years old!
Pish
Thursday, December 11, 2008Time to go all the way and get an iPhone. Got IM now.