Folks,
just wanted to report on my lappy: I left it on a supposedly secure perch in my hotel room in San Cristobal de las Casas (Mex). While out for a walk some construction down below really caused a hammering and made my lappy attempt suicide.

About 4 feet down to brick, right on the corner of the brick. Laptop was open and running I found her face down and immediately attempted CPR (on myself!)

Good news: seems to run fine after some finaggling. Wow! Bad news: I was using Filevault, Mac OS X's native file security stuff, and because of that all my stuff was subject to loss. Of course, I hadn't yet got around to backing everything up!

I recovered my journals (a month's worth so far) and some other miscellania. All photos had been backed up. My music is on my iPod, which incidentally is NOT a backup to your iTunes, i.e. you can't just plug it in and suck the music back to the laptop if your hard drive crashes or pseudo-crashes like mine. So everything important, except the music, is good to go.

Lesson: be extra, EXTRA careful with this stuff if you like having it. AND don't use Mac's Filevault if there is a chance your system could shutdown unexpectedly, like un-clean power, low battery, shake to the hard drive, etc. I never will again.

Cheers,
Mitch

I am surprised someone is still using Mac.
It's like a Trabant running at pure gold...

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... and Nelly The Elephant packed the trunk and said goodbye to the circus...

What an odd reference! I had to wiki it.

Not sure I understand...my machine has been, and still is, reliable and fast.

I'll let y'all known if the hard drive holds up over the next while. hmmm...what a story to have to replace a Mac part somewhere in South America.

Fun yet to be had, nothing but dreams for now...



Mitch

sorry Mitch, didnt mean to be rude, just my little crusade against Apple and its way of doing things... MS isnt any better anyway...
ignore me please.

my best regards.

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... and Nelly The Elephant packed the trunk and said goodbye to the circus...

GNU/Linux. It's the only way to go

I got my first look at Mac OSX a few days ago, and (glossy GUI aside), I kind of liked it. I still feel a little bit bad about that actually...

Is yours MacBook Pro with aluminum casing?

I've had my 3 years old PowerBook 12" fallen three times badly, one time from MC seat onto concrete floor, once from my head height onto wooden floor with open monitor. The frame is bent, lots of wear marks but it keeps going.

Hoping to upgrade it to MacBook Pro 15" soon, it's a pity they don't have 12" version of it tho.

I love the UNIX (FreeBSD) based OSX.

Oh yes, the FileVault should be better off unless you work for FBI or military or something like that...