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Am exceedingly happy to report I now have an actual computer! After eight days with no computer and no iPad, this is something of a happy thing.
My iPad has been on the blink now for a bit and is waiting at the hole-in-the-wall repair replace to be blessed with a new dock connector as it is not hugely useful for me without the ability to sync to the computer.
My trusty Mac Pro computer has been upgraded to a Mac Mini and as part of the deal the wonderful folk at Streetwise Hawthorn agreed to transfer my mountain of data to the new Mac Mini and NAS to save me days of messing around with USB drives setting things up. This seemed like a simple and quick thing to do until they started looking and discovered bad sectors corrupting many things on the Mac Pro - cue 5 more days of Dan and the other Dan at Streetwise heroically rescuing my data off these bloody disks. And then this morning they showed up (complete with a cute hat!) and installed the new computer and the NAS and hooked up all my bits and pieces with very good grace.
I am still astonished at how incredibly TINY the Mac Mini is... I knew the specifications for size and somehow still envisioned something with at least twice the volume this thing has. It's sitting on my bench looking quite stupid next to some enormous old peripherals including a lunchbox sized EyeTV 410 digital TV tuner which is now larger than my entire new computer.
... am now doing the usual multi-day "install ALL THE THINGS" dance.
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My iPad has been on the blink now for a bit and is waiting at the hole-in-the-wall repair replace to be blessed with a new dock connector as it is not hugely useful for me without the ability to sync to the computer.
My trusty Mac Pro computer has been upgraded to a Mac Mini and as part of the deal the wonderful folk at Streetwise Hawthorn agreed to transfer my mountain of data to the new Mac Mini and NAS to save me days of messing around with USB drives setting things up. This seemed like a simple and quick thing to do until they started looking and discovered bad sectors corrupting many things on the Mac Pro - cue 5 more days of Dan and the other Dan at Streetwise heroically rescuing my data off these bloody disks. And then this morning they showed up (complete with a cute hat!) and installed the new computer and the NAS and hooked up all my bits and pieces with very good grace.
I am still astonished at how incredibly TINY the Mac Mini is... I knew the specifications for size and somehow still envisioned something with at least twice the volume this thing has. It's sitting on my bench looking quite stupid next to some enormous old peripherals including a lunchbox sized EyeTV 410 digital TV tuner which is now larger than my entire new computer.
... am now doing the usual multi-day "install ALL THE THINGS" dance.
r
