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As mentioned previously I got the impulse to buy a new old video card. It was suppose to make my old G4 tower run the newer Mac OS X faster. I’m not sure it mattered but I just completed this latest upgrade. It went super smooth. I took a couple pictures. In the last 15 [...]

Is not as easy as you might wish it was. My sister’s laptop was considered mostly dead, my PowerBook G4 had recently died too. We both had new hard drives we got put in by Simply Computing. I put my old hard drive in an enclosure and copied my account to my new Mac. I [...]

I wanted one, but I didn’t really have the money, so I upgraded my old laptop’s hard drive. Then on Wednesday this week, just after being admired for it’s size or lackof, the 12″ PowerBook up and died. I took it to Simply Computing and sure enough it needed a new logic board. I’d rather [...]

In preparation for my MBA degree I bought a 12″ PowerBook. I got the student discount and though it cost a lot, it was extremely useful especially in presentations throughout my MBA. Unfortunately I have had a lot of problems with the hard drive. While at UBC I bought DiskWarrior and was able to nurse [...]

It’s all OK I hope. I went home. I was lucky enough to be able to make one last back up of my hard drive. Either that or I was smart enough to make one last backup of my hard drive when given the opportunity. I transferred the two files in questions to my new [...]