Sheer Terror

Yeah, this is never gonna stop. MORE MAGNOLIAS!

Halfway through my lazy day on Sunday, my computer started to actually freak-out. Like, to the point where I couldn't get the internet to open. And then, it wouldn't let me shut it off. Yeah, then I freaked out because computer! Expensive! Only 3 years old! I needs it!

So, I pretty immediately made a genius bar appointment at Apple for the next available time slot (Monday afternoon) and tried to think good thoughts. I have the external hard drive that I bought at the end of February with everything on there, so I knew, worst case scenario, if I need to buy a new computer, I can drag and drop all the pertinent info into the new operating system. But I don't really have the emergency funds to afford a new computer right now, so...

Monday afternoon I wander into the Apple store, and because I am a bit early, I take a look at the new laptops just in case. Very quickly I notice that none of them have cd or dvd drives, so I ask an employee and sure enough, they no longer make laptops with built in cd or dvd drives... Suddenly I became even more nervous. I NEED to be able to upload music via cds onto my computer, make my xmas cds, and have some way to watch the ridic amount of dvds I own. So, yeah. EXTRA crossing my fingers that this is just a quick fix.

Luckily, it was. I told the genius bar employee that everything was backed up and I was a big fan of whatever she could do to make my computer work again, including a factory reset, wiping everything. So, that is exactly what she did. And it worked! My computer is now back to it's former self, running like new with only the barest of bones brought over from my backup! I would have been devastated to lose all that info, music, documents, headshots, so I feel incredibly grateful that I had the foresight to buy an external and back everything up.

Also, yeah, super glad I now know that I am probably going to have to transition to a PC for my next computer. I get it, Apple, cd/dvd drives take up a lot of space and make a laptop heavier, but if I wanted a tablet or a macbook air, I'd buy one of those. I would like an all-in-one computer please, is that too much to ask? (apparently, now it is...Yikes.)

Breathing a sigh of relief that my computer works again, Plus, she gave me an estimate on the cost of fixing the screen (there's a big thumb-shaped crack in it from when my computer started to fall off my counter and I grabbed it by the screen, saving it from further damage, but making the screen a little uglier. Which sucks), and although it is a chunk of change, it's better than the cost it would be to buy a whole new computer or fix more extensive internal damage. Once I have a little more money in my bank account (and am not spending all my disposable income on theater tickets), I'll have to consider springing for that fix.