the oldnew mac

As most of you already know, my computer bit it not too long ago. Fortunately, it waited to die until I was done with the ‘have to have this finished before Christmas’ sessions and projects. If it was only a week earlier, I would have been buried in a shallow grave right next to the dead pc.

So Mr. Mark at Rockville Camera had this Mac G5 sitting unused in his basement and offered it to me. I (of course and with huge thanks) took it and we are becoming fast friends, I think. Still lots to learn and lots to try to transfer from the PC but overall, getting the hang of it. Also going to have to buy some software so I can still use my Windows documents and possibly some font issues, but in the big scheme of things (and being kinda forced into the mac switch) it wasn’t nearly as traumatic as I had imagined. And it already had Photoshop CS2 installed! Bonus!!

Plus the tower throws off lots of heat so I am really liking that cause you know I’m always freezing. And the white keyboard, mouse and silver screen and tower really look good with my pink chair, pink cell phone and pink mouse pad.

Oh, and the verdict on what caused the PC to die? Overuse. No, seriously! The PC is back home and sitting upstairs in the scrapbook room/office til I can get up there and put it all back together. We’ll just keep it and use it as a second computer. Can’t have enough backup!!

And a big thank you to Paul (our IT guy) who worked so hard to fix my overworked computer and saving everything from the black hole of  file stealing.