New Computer Setup..

James — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:28:36 +0000

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As some of you know I am heading back to school in the Spring, so in preparation, and also because my poor Mac Powerbook 12″ is over 6 years old, I made plans to buy a new system. Of course it was going to be a Mac, the question was, should I go Mac Pro, Macbook Pro, or iMac. There are advantages to each, lots of power with the Mac Pro, good power and a nice size screen with the iMac, power and portability with a Macbook Pro.

I am going back to school for web & internet design, so I wanted a good size screen, and good power, but as the course is all online, and I was planning on doing some work while sitting at my daughters cheer practice, I wanted portability. I considered getting an iMac or Mac Pro then getting an iBook to work away from home, but then I saw the new 24″ Cinema display made to work with the Macbook Pros.

This was the perfect answer to my needs, portability, power and a nice large screen, the ability to run dual screens as a matter of fact. So I did some reading up, went by the local Apple store and played with one they had setup, it was perfect for my needs. So today I went and picked it up, a 17″ Macbook Pro, 24″ Cinema Display, and an Apple keyboard. Here are some pics…..

A BackPack for your iMac or Cinema Display (tuaw.com)
Atlona DVI to Mini DisplayPort Converter (ubergizmo.com)
Yes, You Can Have Your Mac and PC, too (geeksaresexy.net)

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James — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:21:52 +0000

Well this has been an rough week for my poor PowerBook. Thursday night I was suppose to dj for COFE Radio, but whas trouble connecting to and holding the stream, so I ran a software up date, and when it was done did the required reboot… Well it decideded it did not want to reboot it just sat at the start up screen. Great just what I need, the PowerBook is my dj rig, it has all my dj software on it, if it is down, so am I. So I start hitting the forums, seems I am not the only one having trouble with this update. So I start going through all the normal repair procedures, and nothing is working. OK, so it looks like I have to do an archive and reinstall. not that big a thing…except I do not have the install disk for the version of OSX I am using..and my dj software has to have at least OS X.4. Great that leaves only one choice, I will have to upgrade to OS X.5, but $129.00 is cheaper than a new computer so yesterday I run to the Santan Village Apple store and pick up a copy and run home to do the a&i. There is just one problem….not enough disk space to do it!!! . OK, what to do now?
Well after som thinking..I remember I can run the system off an external drive, and I have a firewire housing, so I find a good size drive laying around, put in the housing, plug it in, format it and start the install…
Flash ahead 2 hours..ok 1 hour and 40 mins…I now have an OS on the external drive I reboot the iBook……………………..
YAY!! I have a live computer again, and my PowerBook’s drive shows as an accessable drive, so now i can retreave my files.
SO now I am in the process of doing file recovery and getting my external iTunes library all nice and happy with the new iTunes. Once I get all that done, email working, iTunes all back and have my dj software installed and working.. I will clone the external drive, and restore it to my PowerBook’s drive, I should then be back live! There are still some things I will need to install, but I should be able to dj again..as long as the inital problem I had that started all this, was a software problem and not an ISP one..but that is something I will have to wait a bit to find out.

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