After three years of loving service...the iMac G5 is no more. It survived two moves, getting poked at by a former PC user (Joel), severe neglect when the baby was born, and it had to suffer through the indignity of having to share a room with said baby for nearly six months.
It's been acting funny for the past couple of weeks...I blame this on me using it to look at newer models...and the baby using the keyboard as both a teething device and a musical instrument. And then one day...it just stopped and didn't want to start again.
So back to the mothership we went (aka...the Genius Bar at the Florida Mall). And the diagnosis was just not good...it needs a whole new hard drive...a hard drive that would cost more than the computer is worth...but that also means a glimmer of good news...it means that Mama gets a new computer! Hell yeah people!
Now...as some of you might know...I am a former Apple employee...and dear lord do I ever miss that damn place. Getting a job there was like finally finding my field of bees (obscure Blind Melon music video reference)...and to famously quote Jason from our opening day, "This is more than a store, this is more than a job...I love each and every one of you...now get out there and sell some shit!"
*Wiping tears*
Anyhoo...so I am getting a brand spanking new computer...now the only thing left to decide...what to get.
Do I get another desktop and spend an obscene amount of time chasing the baby away from it...or do I get a laptop that I'll spend an obscene amount of time holding above my head so the baby can't get to it.
And fingers crossed people...I was smart enough to do backups of the iMac...but not quite smart enough to remember when the last time it was that I had a backup scheduled...so here is hoping that I still have 15 months worth of baby pictures...including ones showing her torturing the now defunct iMac...ahhh...memories.
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