So, remember awhile ago when I wrote that it might be time to look into replacing White Dog (my beloved MacBook)? I think it was around Memorial Day, when Gene and I drove downy to the Apple store to let the Genius Bar take a look. I was flipping out again about the power cord.
(Note to self: You actually went through 4 power cords with White Dog, including the one that Apple swapped out for free that day)
Well, yesterday was the day to replace White Dog. Earlier this year Apple revealed that they were no longer going to sell the MacBook and that they were more into selling the MacBook Air, starting at the same price point as I paid for White Dog. The Air, while beautiful and thin, seems so … flimsy. And there’s no CD-ROM drive (not that I use it often, but it’s a good thing to have for the random time I want to watch a DVD and cannot commandeer the XBox or one of the other devices in the house for that purpose).
So, instead I bought a 13 inch silver MacBook Pro, Silver Dog. I was able to use a feature called Migration Assistant to move everything – including my wallpaper (Blanche holding my older nephew) and my super outdated version of Safari (web browser) – to the new Silver Dog. It was a little tricky figuring the migration out – somehow the little bit of stuff I wanted to move over required 5 hours to migrate so I was the loon Googling “migration assistant problem” at 4:30 this morning. (I couldn’t sleep because of an itchy ear, it wasn’t really an attack of the crazies). Turns out the trick is to not let either computer go to “sleep” during this process.
In other news, only two more days of work before vacation. Woot. In other news, OMG I only have two more days to get a LOT of work done before I’m gone for a week. Yikes!