So my computer crapped out on me AGAIN! I actually thought something might’ve been wrong the last few times that I restarted because there was a flash of the folder with the question mark in it before it booted up. But today I was using my computer and it had the folder with a question mark and wouldn’t boot up at all. Even worse, when I booted up with a Disk Warrior CD none of the partitions came up. Then I tried running it in disk mode and hooking it up to my G3 to backup files, but they didn’t show up then either. Right now I’m using my six year old blue/white Power Mac G3 without a hitch. Yet, a state of the art G5 that’s only a year and a half old has a hard drive failure?
Last time this happened my computer mysteriously started working properly again after a few weeks, maybe that will happen, but maybe it won’t. I would love if I woke up tomorrow morning and everything worked just like normal, but this is a new level of broken that my computer has reached here. This is the first time in 14 years of using Apple computers that I’ve had so many problems with one computer. I never had to bring any of my old computers into the store to get it fixed.
I’m still going to get it fixed, but I’m definitely getting a PC at some point in the relatively near future. Apple has been crapping all over it’s loyal customers lately and it’s just unacceptable. Every G5 I’ve been in contact with at home and work has had to be replaced. Software updates have had bad side effects like the G5 fan ramping up for no reason. You shouldn’t need to patch something after applying a patch. I’ve reached the point where I read discussion boards before making computer purchases at work just to make sure Apple doesn’t have some design flaw that people are complaining about. I almost bought an iMac G5 for the place I work at, but apparently there have been power supply problems that caused overheating to the point that people were smelling burnt plastic. Part of me feels like their whole AppleCare program was only started because they knew that they were rushing products to the market and they were going to need to be replacing faulty parts. I have a friend at work who says something to the effect of “At least Microsoft is just blatantly evil. Steve Jobs is worse because he pretends to be a nice guy.”
It’s really scary to think of how much of our lives we keep on our computer. I have thousands of photos on my computer, not to mention the Photoshop documents for most of my comics. I don’t want to think of how many GB of anime I have on my computer which I may have potentially lost. Though things like my photos and I also have a journal on my computer would really suck to lose. Though when you think about it there’s no really efficient foolproof way of keeping important documents. A firewire drive could fail just as easily and I can’t exactly backup all of my photos on some webspace. Whenever my computer has problems I feel like if you were to see me a year from that moment I’d have bookshelves with hand written journals and photo albums, meanwhile I’m churning my own butter and living like in colonial times because I’ve abandoned all technology.
To make myself feel a little better I submitted an angry letter to Apple on their “Switch” page about how my next computer is going to be a PC.
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