Entries Tagged as 'ibook'

Did You Think You’d Seen the Last of Ruby?

January 24th, 2006 · 7 Comments

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Ruby, East Ukrainian Village, Chicago

Actually, I did. But today my iBook started misbehaving and after 3 1/2 hours at the Apple Store’s Genius Bar, it had to be sent in for repair. Luckily I was able to back up my data to my external hard drive. It’s hard to get used to Ruby now: her slow speed, her rounded monitor, her browser crashing when it tries to play Flash, her keyboard, her big ass taking up all the space on my desk. But I’m glad she was still hanging around. I’d just spoken to Matt about selling her. Good thing I didn’t yet.

There must be something in the air because Dallas spent 2 full days of the weekend rebuilding his desktop when it crashed on Saturday and Killian’s laptop died this past weekend too.

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Ebony & Ivory

August 19th, 2005 · 10 Comments

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Laptops, Magnificent Mile, Chicago

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FedEx Tracking, Magnificent Mile, Chicago

I press refresh so obsessively on the FedEx tracking page that I knew the second that my new laptop was delivered. I ran up to reception and was like “where’s my shit!?” and the receptionist was like “whuh? I don’t have anything for you” and I’m all like “oh .. really?? then what’s this box!?”

Have the new iBook here plugged in at work. Everyone in the cubes around me was teasing me that I was being like a little kid on Christmas morning. .. which I was. I recently just got a new laptop at work too because my Dell laptop decided not to recognize the hard drive any more. They replaced it with this black IBM. It’s pretty nice…. for a PC.

Can’t wait to get home and start transferring data and customizing and everything. I don’t really need to get any work done today… do I? .. come on!!! I’m kind of dreading finding old CDs with my software on them, though.

Btw, Shanghai, China to Chicago, IL in 3 days.. no too shabby.

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Goodbye Ruby

August 17th, 2005 · 31 Comments

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Ruby & Rachelle

In October 2000, Mark and I went to Comp USA in Kearny Mesa and I adopted Ruby. Since then she’s been with me through thick and thin, from California to New York and finally making her way with me to Chicago last year. I love her dearly. But 6 years is a long time, and in computer years she’s got to be about 96 years old and it’s starting to show. Slowness when trying to switch applications, not being able to handle Flash in a browser without having a nervous breakdown.. as long as 2 years ago when I talked Ted into buying the new SimCity and burning me a copy, Ruby refused to play that new fangled shit. These days we’ve got this relationship where we both love each other but I curse her out constantly for being so slow and not doing what I want and she’s hating on me for asking her to do things that she obvs can’t handle doing.

change.jpgSo the time has come. For a year or more I’ve been saying I should get a new computer. Then for the past 6 months I’ve said I’d buy a new computer when this change jar is full and I could cash it in and use it towards a new computer. Then for the past 3 weeks, with the jar full, I’ve procrastinated about what kind of computer I wanted. Finally, this weekend, I ordered a new iBook. I just got notice from Apple that it is with FedEx right now. I hope our network can handle me pressing refresh on the tracking screen every 2 minutes.

I’m really excited to get the iBook and to get a computer that’s going to actually work, and not at a 96-year-old granny pace, but still, I’m sad to let Ruby go.

Btw, how much change do you think is in this jar? I’ve got to cash it in like .. uh.. now, but am dreading lugging it somewhere. The bottom change doesn’t have quarters because it’s from New York and I needed them for laundry. The top change is full of quarters and even has a silver dollar on the top.

Other posts on Ruby:
» Insomnia
» Ruby & I Have a New Crush
» Say Hello To Ruby’s Baby Brother
» Ruby is 3!
» Backing Up Is Hard To Do
» Ruby’s on the Road to Recovery
» Ruby Needs Your Help
» Saturday Night: Great Music, Great Friends
» Sold Out Too Early

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