Rotting Apples

[Briano1234]

William, I just got my daughters old 17" MacBook Pro repaired and slightly upgraded.
It is the 2.16Ghz Duo. She had dropped the thing and smacked the hinge which took out the bezel (crappy design if you ask me. Booting the system took forever and there was very little space left, even after reclaiming 80GB and defragging, it was still slow to boot. It was a rotten apple.

About 3 years ago I ordered the case bottom and top (keyboard) shells, the bezel didn't break until bout 1.5 years ago I guess.

Well I got the thing apart and was going to swap the bottoms, but alas I have the 2.6Ghz bottom, so I had to straighten the old one out a wee bit, it isn't perfect but dam close now. Installed the new keyboard in the top cover. Ordered and replaced the Bezel (100 bucks from ebay) cheap at half the cost.

Cloned the disk drive as I couldn't find her original OS tiger disk.
Cloned it to a Seagate Momentus XT Semi-Solid state 4gb of ram, 16mb Xfer 500gb.
Installed another 1 gb or Ram.

I ordered and installed the Snow Leopard and all the updates, and it is screaming. The disk upgrade lets the box boot in about 13 seconds, and there is no hesitation in the video. The system seems to be running cooler and the flaky video issues that I had seem to have gone with the up-grade.

I am learning more and more about Mac's so I am not Mac Illiterate any more. I don't like the lack of cut copy and paste functionality that windows has in the browsers but I am getting used to the command button.

All in all I have a few bucks in to this but I do like the looks and feel of the machine. I can see why they have such a loyal following..

Oh, I have upgraded the airport card to a "N" class, but did that so long ago does it count?

Don't get me wrong, I like Win7, but am getting to know Mac. Does that make me quadra-osable now?
mac, windows, unix, linux... along with Native.. oh that would be pentra-osable.

[Calimus]

Lol. Nothing wrong with liking the mac. First thing, stop using Safari and download Firefox. There is also Chrome for mac if you prefer that, but both will kick safari in the nutz any day. There is copy/cut/paste, you just have to learn how to use the trackpad/mouse. to do it.

They aren't bad machines (overpriced yes) and the OS isn't bad either. It's nice to be able to drop to the cmd line and do things like ssh and such from there. I'm no expert either, but I do use them on a daily basis. I still find myself able to do more things faster with Win7, but I think that has everything to do with close to 20 years of windows use Vs. a little over 1 year with snow leopard/Lion.

I think you have me beat on the OS count. I've not used native, but I have used Dos, Windows, OS2, Linux and Unix. I'm sure you have touched OS2 at some point.

[Briano1234]

I have been using dos since 1.0. There are other os's for specific puters that I have worked on over the years, like BTOS, CTOS, CMS, and I did touch os2 for a year or so, not to mention Novel.

now that I am on SL I can get the latest Firefox, which I did and Chrome.

I just have to get jiggy with the familiarity of Mac, as far as the os goes, it is so dam similar to ATTSVR4 unix it isn't funny.

I am getting the hang of it as I am posting from it as I type.

William, hows about a trade? 30v timing tools for a coil pak?
That way if I ever need them I know where I can get them, as I have a use for the other...like yesterday.

[Calimus]

Well, Mac OSX is just BSD with a pretty face after all.

Was good talking with you last night. Sorry we can't do the coil pack deal since it's the wrong damn one.