So, after singing the praises of how wonderful Macs are, I am here to tell you how unhappy I am with a little company called Apple. Now, part of this may indeed be my fault, but let me set up a scenario for you:
My PowerBook G4 that I have owned for almost two years, up and killed itself (being the hard drive, that is). And as it happens, almost 4,000 songs on iTunes, all of my photos, important work documents, papers I saved from grad school...basically everything, is gone. Now I realize that the title of my entry today is "Fury" but when I think about it, I'm really more sad than anything. I am also angry because of how much money I've spent.
PowerBook G4 $1,499
LaCie External Drive $159
Mac OS X $129
Repairs $179
New Hard Drive $149
Losing my technological life...damn priceless!
Excuse the choice word, but those who know me well know that I only write it if I truly mean it, and I mean oh-so-much-more than that.
I know Apple has really cute commercials, and really fun stuff (hell-o, the iPod has changed music forever - and mine still works...for now) and probably the best audio/video stuff for computers, but you would figure that in the 21st Century, some technological genious could make a truly efficient, longer than 2 year life span machine. Evidently not Steve Jobs.
We make the technology, and then the technology kills us. We have the power to limit technology, but it turn, technology limits us, and sometimes depletes itself into ruins with nothing to salvage.
So, while I think of all of this (as I type on my home desktop PC) I really hate Apple right now and I think that they owe me...big. If this ever happens again, I'm going back to PCs for the rest of my life.
What I'm typing on might be big, bulky, and junky, but it's never failed me in the six years I've owned it.
4 comments:
that's what you get for using a laptop and carrying it around a lot. hard drives have moving parts unfortunately.
it's not a mac/pc problem, it's a laptop/desktop problem. the hard drive in it was probably a hitachi or a matshita/panasonic or a toshiba. those are the same ones dell et al use in their laptops. hard drives fail on windows machines with regularity too.
let us backup while we may, for it is well with us. may it profiteth us greatly in future times.
SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! Get a back up drive and use it often. My husband does this once a month and it has save his cake many times. :)
Dear Mr. Ronk--
You failed to back up critical data, now you blame Apple Computer for its loss?
Tell me, have you now backed up your critical data, or are you just waiting to lose it all again?
Mikey
This is what I love about computer people. Once you make a mistake, or something bad happens they act exceedingly condescending and fit the role of a smart-ass quite well.
If you had read everything, you would know a few things:
1) My friend Jay pointed out that it's not really Apple's fault, and I conceded that
2) I blamed Toshiba for making a crappy hard drive
3) I bought a La Cie external drive and back up on that regularly, along with burning discs of important files
Thanks for your comment (albeit slightly snide), Mikey...
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