Eff’n MACs
Now the GF and I get along pretty well, but there are a few things that seem to be a continuing source of [friction, agrivation, discontent, annoyance…]. Well before I jump right in, I’ll give a little background. My GF, as with a lot of women, seem to think that it is there significant others job (by default) to take care of certain things… the car for instance. Anything that happens to GF’s car is now my problem. Now don’t get me wrong, I understand this. If I can not find something in the house, it is now GF’s problem (only because she moved it some place).
In addition to the car, there is the COMPUTER. GF had 2 computers, a windows OS laptop, and a mac desktop. Anytime something happened to the laptop, it was my job to fix it. First there was a ongoing disk problem. I bought GF an external hard drive, cleaned up the bad disk as best I could, and had GF back up all her files. I “suggested” that she back up her files everyday, in case the disk decided to have any further issues.
About one month later the disk goes again, and she can no longer boot the machine. GF is very upset! She needs to get the files off the machine ASAP, and it will not start up. “Baby, use my computer, and uses the files from the external hard drive” I say. Now you may think that I just solved her problem, but if you did, you would be wrong. GF has not used the EHD to back up anything since the first issue, so now she has about 1 month of work potentially lost. I ask her why she has not been backing up the files (ok, I should have know better)…. “I can’t back up my files every day!” says GF. “Okay, how about once a week?”. Well this just escalates, and it is not getting us anywhere.
Not to cut this short, but it is not really what I wanted to write about. After a new hard drive and a lot of work to salvage all of GF’s files, her laptop crapped out a couple of months later. This event coincided with her mac crapping out. So GF now has 2 machines, and neither of which is working. I try, but can not fix the laptop, and she has a friend working on the MAC w/o success (b/c I don’t know shit about macs). So after a very emotional week or so, GF decides to buy a new machine… a mac laptop.
GF is thrilled w/the new mac. She walks around the house with it, like it is a new born. She asks me if I like her new mac umpteen times a day. She tells me how fast it is, and smiles as she cradles it in her arms. This is all good! GF has a mac and I don’t work on macs. I’m finally off the hook!!! NO MORE COMPUTER MAINTENANCE!
My state-full bliss has not lasted long (insert sad face here). It turns out, that if GF turns her computer on and gets a wireless connection before I do, I’m blocked out! Yeah, the eff’n mac is keeping me off the wireless router! So, every day, I have to ask GF to disconnect from wireless, and then power cycle the cable and wireless routers. This really is enough of a pain, but to add insult to injury, GF is now excited that her mac is smarter then my pc. She GLOWS with pride every time I have to ask her to disconnect. In over 2 & ½ years, I have never been able to make her as happy as her new baby mac has! Which is absurd! I cost less, can work on a car, (okay, I’m having problems think of other attributes I have the her mac does not). Anyway macs suck, even if they do have a built in camera and microphone so you can skype with your friens.
In addition to the car, there is the COMPUTER. GF had 2 computers, a windows OS laptop, and a mac desktop. Anytime something happened to the laptop, it was my job to fix it. First there was a ongoing disk problem. I bought GF an external hard drive, cleaned up the bad disk as best I could, and had GF back up all her files. I “suggested” that she back up her files everyday, in case the disk decided to have any further issues.
About one month later the disk goes again, and she can no longer boot the machine. GF is very upset! She needs to get the files off the machine ASAP, and it will not start up. “Baby, use my computer, and uses the files from the external hard drive” I say. Now you may think that I just solved her problem, but if you did, you would be wrong. GF has not used the EHD to back up anything since the first issue, so now she has about 1 month of work potentially lost. I ask her why she has not been backing up the files (ok, I should have know better)…. “I can’t back up my files every day!” says GF. “Okay, how about once a week?”. Well this just escalates, and it is not getting us anywhere.
Not to cut this short, but it is not really what I wanted to write about. After a new hard drive and a lot of work to salvage all of GF’s files, her laptop crapped out a couple of months later. This event coincided with her mac crapping out. So GF now has 2 machines, and neither of which is working. I try, but can not fix the laptop, and she has a friend working on the MAC w/o success (b/c I don’t know shit about macs). So after a very emotional week or so, GF decides to buy a new machine… a mac laptop.
GF is thrilled w/the new mac. She walks around the house with it, like it is a new born. She asks me if I like her new mac umpteen times a day. She tells me how fast it is, and smiles as she cradles it in her arms. This is all good! GF has a mac and I don’t work on macs. I’m finally off the hook!!! NO MORE COMPUTER MAINTENANCE!
My state-full bliss has not lasted long (insert sad face here). It turns out, that if GF turns her computer on and gets a wireless connection before I do, I’m blocked out! Yeah, the eff’n mac is keeping me off the wireless router! So, every day, I have to ask GF to disconnect from wireless, and then power cycle the cable and wireless routers. This really is enough of a pain, but to add insult to injury, GF is now excited that her mac is smarter then my pc. She GLOWS with pride every time I have to ask her to disconnect. In over 2 & ½ years, I have never been able to make her as happy as her new baby mac has! Which is absurd! I cost less, can work on a car, (okay, I’m having problems think of other attributes I have the her mac does not). Anyway macs suck, even if they do have a built in camera and microphone so you can skype with your friens.
posted by Bitter Old Man at 9:49 AM
2 Comments:
Macs RULE!!!
oh stop... you have been smoking too many ipods.
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