As if you cared. Hah! Well, the story does have some wrinkles and it isn't over yet. Here's the scoop. I took the computer in and we all sat on our hands waiting patiently while Apple send a new drive down for installation at the store, Carbon Computing. That was on Wednesday. Assistant Lugs and I shared the laptop one day... not a good experience I can tell you!. I was pleasantly surprised when I got a call on Friday that the new drive had been installed and the G5 was ready to be picked up. I went over and as it had been repaired under Apple Care, paid a nominal fee just for the rush service I had requested. I then dashed over to the Apple Store at the Eaton Centre to pick up a family pack of the new Mac system software: Leopard. I figured that with a brand new drive this might be a good time to upgrade. I get it home, eager to start installing stuff but soon realised that I don't have any DVI monitors. This Mac has 4 DVI ports on the back (Illustrators: we need lots of monitors, what can I say?) but I only have a spare analogue monitor at home. So I waited until this morning to bring the computer in to the studio and power it up. Immediately I notice that they had installed a drive of the Wrong Freaking Size!! It went in with a defective 520 gig drive and came out with an operational 230 gig drive. I was hopping mad. So my commitment to installing all this software was immediately tempered by the knowledge I may need to have to take the bloody thing in again. Still I had to install it so I can work this weekend. That took three and a half hours. I am still mad.
I do like Leopard though. I thought I wouldn't have much used for it but I'm thinking the new features will be quite useful. Okay, rant over, now back to your regularly scheduled blogs.
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