Georg bought a computer last night. He intended to buy an airport card for his old iBook, (one of the clamshell ones that looks like a purse), because the hotel for this business trip has free wireless net access. But earlier in the day he asked me if I thought he should buy the card, and I said candidly that I couldn't answer the question because if I were him, I would have already bought a new computer. I guess that was more persuasive than I would have expected, because we went to the Apple store and walked out with a 14" iBook.
They gave us an HP inkjet printer for free (with a rebate). We really don't need another inkjet printer, but, free! Maybe we can sell it or something. They also tried to sell us .Mac, which we scoffed at. Maybe a little too openly. But really, .Mac seems pretty lame to me. Most of it is software that comes on the computer already. The only things we don't already have are virus protection (which I suppose would be a good idea, but when was the last time you heard of a virus for the Mac?), online disk space (we're quite happy with our pair.com hosting account, thank you) and backup software (okay, that would be nice).
The new iBook is so cute! It looks a lot like my Powerbook except all white. The screen is a little smaller than mine, but the hard drive is bigger and the processor is faster (I have more RAM though). Georg has it with him in Atlanta; I can't wait for next week when we'll both be back and we can set up our network. We'll finally be able to share the printers! Whee!
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I love art cars. I cannot wait to do one of my own someday. We have an event here in Reno called Hot August Nights. It is all about cars. Mostly restored cars from the 50s, but they are starting to open it up to other types. I wonder if they would consider an art car catagory.
About your new Mac; Yes! Absolutely obtain backup software. We just went thru a hard drive crash that took over a month to repair and even with the data recovery, some stuff was lost forever. If we had been doing our backups, then we could have just done a restoration, which would have taken a few minutes!
Losing files can be disasterous when you are an artist. So do the backups. We installed new software on our Mac and have backups done every night now. And I am in the process of making disks for some of my files. If nothing else, it will provide you with peace of mind.
oh, i'll be happy to take that printer off your hands!!! email me and we can discuss $$.
Hi Peace Blair! Why are you waiting until someday to make an art car? Why not do it right now?
Hey Christa, cool! Technically it's Georg's printer so I'll have him contact you to work out the details when we get back.