Friday, June 05, 2009
The Oldest MacBook Pro in Portland gets an upgrade
Sorry for being a bit absent 'round here. Haven't been feeling much like writing, if you can believe it.About the most interesting thing that's happened to me this week is getting a new hard drive installed in Sterling, the MacBook Pro that, three years later, I still call my new sexy thing. Truth is, it's not quite so new anymore, but it has character. A few scars - the dent from where the idiot on the "fixie" ran into me from behind, a spot just under the keyboard where the paint is coming off, other random stains and scratches - but it still works like a champ.
In the three years I've had it, other than the above incidents, Apple has replaced the following under warranty:
- Logic board
- Battery (twice)
- Hard drive (which was damaged in my nasty car accident so shouldn't have been under warranty, shhhh!)
...which seems like a good record for a laptop that gets used daily, and lugged around everywhere. It's been to New York and Cancćn, on road trips out into the Nevada desert, to the beach and Seattle.
And last night, my friend Hollie popped off the top case and showed me what was inside, and installed a Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB hard drive, smooth as silk.
I finally got to see the inside of my new sexy thing.
Damn... I should have taken pictures!
With any luck, this laptop should serve me well for the next year or so. Sure, I'd like to upgrade to a new unibody MacBook Pro. But I don't have to.
And, besides, I think I have the oldest MacBook Pro in Portland. What's not cool about that?
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I totally took pictures when my piano tuner took the keyboard out to fix one of the pedal mechanism dohickeys. (Yeah, doesn't make sense. Pianos are weird, though, apparently.) See: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeegirl/sets/72157594492786292/
I like seeing the inside of stuff. Except people. Not so much interested in seeing the inside of people. But stuff! Always interesting. :)
I like seeing the inside of stuff. Except people. Not so much interested in seeing the inside of people. But stuff! Always interesting. :)
Aww, your piano keyboard looks sad when it's unattached. Or maybe I'm inappropriately anthropomorphizing.
Hollie said the inside of my new sexy thing was cleaner than many of the student MBPs she's seen; most have tobacco/ashes and dust. Mine just had dust. I'm glad I blew out all the donut crumbs before I brought it over.
Hollie said the inside of my new sexy thing was cleaner than many of the student MBPs she's seen; most have tobacco/ashes and dust. Mine just had dust. I'm glad I blew out all the donut crumbs before I brought it over.
Idiot on a fixie? No editor would let a redundant expression like that go unnoticed. Nothing wrong with the design, but they seem to attract the same demographic that I used to spend weekends looking for when they skied out of bounds and predictably got in trouble on Mount Hood. (Ability to foresee consequences part of the brain develops as late as 25 in some males, goes away completely in some addicts)
The truly overlooked part of any fanboy argument I've ever had the displeasure of hearing about Apple product costs- Apple makes things that are useful for at least twice the length of time of a comparable Dell or HP branded item.
The truly overlooked part of any fanboy argument I've ever had the displeasure of hearing about Apple product costs- Apple makes things that are useful for at least twice the length of time of a comparable Dell or HP branded item.
Fixies are fine on the race track. They may be fine out on the street, too, except that the guy who hit me from behind and dented my new sexy thing thought he was on the race track. Me being human, I am tempted to apply his mistake to the entire group of fixie-riding bicyclists. Tempted, but I shall not give in.
As long as this laptop will keep running the current version of Mac OS X, I'll keep not considering upgrading. And actually, as long as I can keep doing what I need to do on it, why upgrade at all?
As long as this laptop will keep running the current version of Mac OS X, I'll keep not considering upgrading. And actually, as long as I can keep doing what I need to do on it, why upgrade at all?
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