Although it isn’t quite as bad with a Mac.
Robopsychosis ro-bo’-si-ko’-sis (n) ca. 1999 attr. John Mendillo (USA) 1. Condition or state of being wherein entire hours or days are spent attempting to troubleshoot or fix computer hardware or software, usually to no avail. 2. The inability to fix computer hardware or software. 3. The all-encompassing mental state of the technician while attempting to troubleshoot or fix computer hardware or software. 4. Extreme anxiety felt while troubleshooting computer hardware or software.
And I will admit it was all my own fault.
When I bought my MacBook Pro three months ago, I just got the base configuration (2GB RAM, 160GB hard drive). I knew at some point I would need more RAM and a bigger hard drive, but it just wasn’t in the budget at the time of purchase. This weekend, however, I finally bumped the machine to 4GB RAM and a 320GB hard drive.
Transferring data with a Mac is a breeze. After I installed the new hardware, I booted from the DVD and reloaded the OS. When it asked if I wanted to restore data from a backup, I said yes, and moved all my stuff over from Time Machine. Everything was there as it had been on the old drive and it worked great with the added RAM, but unfortunately—as I’d discovered a couple months ago when I had to restore a backup—Photoshop now refused to run.
It’s my own fault, but it’s not hardware related in any way. That’s all I’m going to say about it.
So I wiped the drive and reloaded all my apps from scratch. The hardest (and most frustrating) part—since I’m still a newbie to Mac—was trying to locate where all my specific profile data (mail, address book, bookmarks, etc.) was actually kept so I could manually restore it from Time Machine. All I can say is thank the FSM for the Google.
In a way I’m kind of happy that I had to do it this way, because I realized over the past couple months I’d loaded a whole lot of crap I just didn’t need, and doing this returned my MacBook to near pristine condition. And I even learned a lot in the process. Everything is working fine now, so while it was a little frustrating (okay, there was a lot of cursing involved) it was an overall success.
Sorry, but I do have to agree that this was entirely your fault.
The whole point of Macs is that you shouldn’t constantly need to tinker. In fact, you should NEVER have to open a Mac’s case. You were just asking for trouble. Because Apple makes both the hardware and software for the Mac, they’ve fine-tuned it to as close to perfection as it could be. Cracking open the case is just asking for trouble as your putting in hardware that hasn’t necessarily been tested for the Mac.
I understand *why* you did it, but in the future I wouldn’t. Leave your PC tinkering days behind and enjoy the Zen that is Mac.
You are so damn cute. I love you. I want to do my memory now.
I don’t know dookie about Macs. But I know that what usually happens to me when troubleshooting PCs or the whole network is this. . . I try a dozen different things, something finally works, and I don’t know what it was! I muddle through eventually, but I have to start from scratch the next time.
I can’t deny that I haven’t spent the past week tinkering with my new Mac (hardware and software) to figure out if I can live with the Zen that is Mac also. So far, so good
BTW, one of my itty bitty screws fell off the bottom of my MBP already. I’ll have to find some blue Loctite to keep the rest of them from falling out. They’re machined screws, not the typical P.O.S. stamped and rolled Chinese crap. The HD also uses the worlds tiniest Torx screws I’ve ever seen. I’m really impressed by the overall build quality, especially the aluminum housing, how they make the small holes for the sleep LED is beyond me.