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My iMac died.
*sigh*
It's had a bad display for probably around a year now, and at $800 for a new LCD, it just isn't worth it. For 50-75% more, I can get a new(er) refurb model from Apple. Well, last weekend it crashed BIG TIME. It got in to a reboot loop, and since I don't have a wired Apple keyboard, I can't do the suggested trouble-shooting things.
I rebooted it in verbose mode, and I saw a fleeting error that could indicate a hard drive problem, which would suck because I had the drive replaced during the summer. So Monday I get to shlep it to Phoenix to take it to my repair guy: if the drive failed, they'll replace it. If it's more serious, then I guess it's time for it to go away. I guess I might be able to sell it to the repair guys for parts, after they give me back the few months old HD.
That leaves me with my MacBook Pro laptop, which is working OK. But it's not a desktop, and I need a desktop. So I dug out my two Dell desktops that I bought in January. The school that I worked for buys all their computers from an outfit that refurbs older Dells (and other brands) and sells them at pretty good discounts. They had a special, two desktops for $200 with Win 7 Pro. And when my monitor on the iMac started going bad, I bought a 28" Viewsonic. Its colors aren't as good as an iMac's, obviously, but it was fairly inexpensive.
And I left the power cable in Phoenix at a friend's house. And she can't find it.
And the bastards at Viewsonic don't use a standard power cable for this model! It's called a Mickey Mouse connector. So a new cable had to be ordered and should arrive tomorrow.
In the meanwhile, I've been using a 15" CRT display! It's an amazing culture shock to go from a 27" iMac to Windows 10 on a 15" SVGA monitor. Even my 15" laptop has higher resolution!
*sigh*
It's had a bad display for probably around a year now, and at $800 for a new LCD, it just isn't worth it. For 50-75% more, I can get a new(er) refurb model from Apple. Well, last weekend it crashed BIG TIME. It got in to a reboot loop, and since I don't have a wired Apple keyboard, I can't do the suggested trouble-shooting things.
I rebooted it in verbose mode, and I saw a fleeting error that could indicate a hard drive problem, which would suck because I had the drive replaced during the summer. So Monday I get to shlep it to Phoenix to take it to my repair guy: if the drive failed, they'll replace it. If it's more serious, then I guess it's time for it to go away. I guess I might be able to sell it to the repair guys for parts, after they give me back the few months old HD.
That leaves me with my MacBook Pro laptop, which is working OK. But it's not a desktop, and I need a desktop. So I dug out my two Dell desktops that I bought in January. The school that I worked for buys all their computers from an outfit that refurbs older Dells (and other brands) and sells them at pretty good discounts. They had a special, two desktops for $200 with Win 7 Pro. And when my monitor on the iMac started going bad, I bought a 28" Viewsonic. Its colors aren't as good as an iMac's, obviously, but it was fairly inexpensive.
And I left the power cable in Phoenix at a friend's house. And she can't find it.
And the bastards at Viewsonic don't use a standard power cable for this model! It's called a Mickey Mouse connector. So a new cable had to be ordered and should arrive tomorrow.
In the meanwhile, I've been using a 15" CRT display! It's an amazing culture shock to go from a 27" iMac to Windows 10 on a 15" SVGA monitor. Even my 15" laptop has higher resolution!
