And by PC I mean personal computer.
My old HP laptop, after six years, decided that it had enough and the video card on the motherboard (or chip, or whatever) gave up the ghost a few weeks back. So I moved forward with getting my old work laptop turned into my personal property, as it’s only three years old and has way more RAM and a faster processor and bigger hard drive, and it will cost me far, far less than a new laptop or desktop (that’s next year’s project).
I have transferred my email and Firefox files, which are the most important parts of my computer. Now I can blog properly again. Apparently, the HP is using software for video instead of hardware, making the load on RAM even bigger and causing the computer to heat up faster and, oh, yeah, scrolling sucks. Video sucks, too. It is not conducive to blogging, as you might have noticed by a lightening of the load lately.
The hardest part—the transfer of information—remains, but I already have that PC backed up on my Maxtor external drive, so it shouldn’t be too painful. I think the next-hardest thing will be transferring my games from Popcap and BigFishGames. (What? Live without Plants vs. Zombies? The deuce you say!)
Still getting used to seeing my personal stuff on the used-to-be work monitor (I got the docking station, too). I feel like I’m doing something wrong. But since my new work laptop is inches away, I’m sure I’ll get over it. Now to move the printer upstairs, and the old HP into the guest room until I give it to Jake so he can take it for parts and build a laser—after I take a drill to the hard drive, that is.
I hate transferring data. And I still don’t understand why we aren’t yet able to simply transfer everything, including our programs, to the new computer. When they get that perfected, I’ll be happy, because there’s no effing way I will ever entrust my personal data to a cloud service. If people want my stuff, they’re going to have to do it the old-fashioned way and try to trick me into loading a virus onto my system. Or physically stealing my laptop.
Um. Well, the reason you can’t just transfer everything, including programs is that you aren’t using MacOS, which has supported exactly that for a decade.
*runs away*
Yeah, but the Mac has its issues, too. I did like it when I used it for work. But when I was buying a computer, 90% of the software was written for the PC. It was a no-brainer.