Operation "Blackbook, Reanimate!" - Progress Report

[guttaperk]

New hard drive installed CHECK
MacOS installed CHECK
Apple Bootcamp downloaded & installed CHECK
Macbook Windows driver CD burned CHECK
Hard drive repartitioned: MacOS-170GB, Windows-5GB CHECK
Windows installed CHECK
Macbook Drivers installed into Windows CHECK
Wife lovingly-but-mockingly calls me an "ultimate geek" CHECKRestore MacOS apps &

Comments

[jabber]

It has a 175Gig drive? *drool*

I keep lusting for a Mac, but I've also really become enamored with the tablet option. Were Apple to make one, with the multi-touch display of the iPhone, I would be in geek heaven. Hopefully, that will be coming in a few years.

There is a very nice Macbook to Tablet conversion out there, but it's to a slate-style tablet, not the convertible-style that retains the keyboard. Tis too bad.

And no, while very impressive, I don't think Ubuntu is in any way preferable to OSX. Except maybe for the geek points. :)

[guttaperk]

Mac hardware is fairly droolworthy, but the true appeal lies in the OS; so any Ubuntu installation I perform on Apple hardware will be in addition to, rather than replacing, MacOS.

I've been back-and-forth about the idea of touchscreen MacOS, and I'm not yet convinced that it's worthwhile. It would be neat-o, but I can't see how it wouldn't be more fatiguing than a keyboard interface for protracted use.

What do you use?

[jabber]

I haven't used Linux at home in a very long time. I need to revisit it and have gone so far as to burn myself a Faisty Fawn install disk. :) I have a spare old PC to put it on, but not so much with the time

[littlebreeze]

look at the two of you!

LOL

Techno geeks unite!

[guttaperk]

:-)

[esskaym]

Can u give me a heads up on where u got that hard drive? I have a 1G Macbook and the 60Gb HD is soooo not cutting it. HELP! Upgrade internal or get a whopper of an external?

[guttaperk]

I bought it from an Apple reseller in Barbados.

If I had been ordering online, I would buy from OWC; and, as to whether to buy internal or external, the only sensible answer to me is 'both'.

If your allotted money allows, buy a larger internal hard drive as well as a large enough external with enough room for a backup plus a bit more storage.

If you really don't have enough for two drives, just buy an external drive, large enough for your storage needs as well as backup.

The other issue worth investigating is whether to buy a more expensive, svelte 2.5" external, or whether to buy a cheap 3.5" drive and put it in an external enclosure. The latter solution is bulky, but much cheaper if cost is an issue. It allowed me 300 gb of backup space.

I hope that all of this helps.

adrian

[guttaperk]

The common thread in all of that is "make sure to figure external backup into your plans", and for a backup program, SuperDuper is incredible.