Since the new MacBook Pro is all nice and usable now – I was a little too impatient to get it backed up. So, never mind that it was 96 degrees today – I head off to the Apple Store – where the only “suitable” backup drive is PINK.
House rules. Every new machine gets a new backup drive. It’s that digital hoarder in me.
Thinking about the PINK 2TB disk drive. The first disk drive that I personally used was an IBM 1311. It held 2 million character on 4 platters. And the disk weighted in at about five pounds. The whole contraption was about as big as a washing machine.
After I got home, I started up Time Machine and took a long summer’s nap. When I woke up – Time Machine was done and I worked on my Last Great Photo Shoot images. Got the original 496 down to about 150. TIme to get out and do some more shooting.
Overheard at The Asylum: I didn’t hear much, but I got to talk a lot.
Hello Peg,
nice machine (512 GB SSD !), nice HDD, better wifi…
And you reinstalled it from scratch, good job !
I think I know how you feel.
Myself, I like when everything is well configured, clean, running fast and reliable. And I like to do it myself.
Il like to tune a new machine to my needs. The machine arrive on a standard state, and after a few days (and nights), it’s MY personnal machine.
Some people don’t understand why it takes this amount of time, why it needs this investment… For sure, this is not mandatory. But we like it like that.
Regards,
laurent
PS: the orange lord seems happy of his trip to Paris and his meeting with our president. I don’t know if it’s a good news for us (french)… I’m a bit circonspect with our president’s rethoric (you know… “startup nation”…)