happyfilmluvguy
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This may sound like a complaint, but it's just an amusing observation.
A little history. My first computer was an Apple II GS. I really only played games and watched the screen savers, did little graphic print outs, but that's about it. Fast forward to 2001. My parents have now had a PC for 9 years. I get my own PC. After years of issues having to be solved, my PC has cracked, and I have yet to pry it from it's grave. Thankfully, I have a second computer, and a much more mobile one. My Apple Powerbook. Now you probably hear or know that Macs are better than PCs. Personally they are both machines that do things alike. They share common ground. But which one has more problems?
Recently I found out my Mac had a few problems and the only way to solve it was to erase everything and start all over, reformatting is the term. I've had to do this many times with my PC, and only once had to with my Mac, which technically I had to do twice because of a few problems that day when I started over the first time around. So I back up everything on my computer, compile every software disc I have, make sure that once I do this thing, I can make it so it's as if it never happened at all.
Woosh, everything is erased. I insert the recovery discs that came with my laptop, reinstall the operating system (lots of technical terms here, huh?
) and it's been done. I begin to reinstall everything, copy my backed up files onto the computer, do a few updates, and when I think I am home free, I realize that I still need to update the operating system. So I take out a disc with the update, slide it in, and what do you know, it's scratched enough not to take it. I don't have another copy, and the person I got it from has moved away, so I'm stuck for now.
So for those who have had computer troubles in general, just wait until you have to start all over. It's a fun ride. For those of you that have had to do this before, and whether you had done it before or not, what was your experience like?
A little history. My first computer was an Apple II GS. I really only played games and watched the screen savers, did little graphic print outs, but that's about it. Fast forward to 2001. My parents have now had a PC for 9 years. I get my own PC. After years of issues having to be solved, my PC has cracked, and I have yet to pry it from it's grave. Thankfully, I have a second computer, and a much more mobile one. My Apple Powerbook. Now you probably hear or know that Macs are better than PCs. Personally they are both machines that do things alike. They share common ground. But which one has more problems?
Recently I found out my Mac had a few problems and the only way to solve it was to erase everything and start all over, reformatting is the term. I've had to do this many times with my PC, and only once had to with my Mac, which technically I had to do twice because of a few problems that day when I started over the first time around. So I back up everything on my computer, compile every software disc I have, make sure that once I do this thing, I can make it so it's as if it never happened at all.
Woosh, everything is erased. I insert the recovery discs that came with my laptop, reinstall the operating system (lots of technical terms here, huh?
) and it's been done. I begin to reinstall everything, copy my backed up files onto the computer, do a few updates, and when I think I am home free, I realize that I still need to update the operating system. So I take out a disc with the update, slide it in, and what do you know, it's scratched enough not to take it. I don't have another copy, and the person I got it from has moved away, so I'm stuck for now.So for those who have had computer troubles in general, just wait until you have to start all over. It's a fun ride. For those of you that have had to do this before, and whether you had done it before or not, what was your experience like?
