You’ll remember that bad blocks kept spontaneously appearing on the internal hard disk of my iMac G5, and that I ended up backing it up, doing a low-level format, and restoring everything with the fabulous SuperDuper.
For over a month, everything went swimmingly. And then, yesterday, just as I was thinking about posting an update declaring the problem was solved, the bad sectors started reappearing! So I called Apple, and this time, they agreed to send me a new hard disk.
So, I’m good for another surgical operation, another round of restoring my system, and reauthorizing all of my music software. But hopefully, that will be the end of that.
Despite everything, this is a very nice machine (design, ergonomics, screen, speed), and in nearly 20 years of using Macs, has been the only one that’s given me problems.
Still, I am thinking of getting an Intel Mac, because it would be great to be able to run my Windows-only translation software at near full speed, instead of relying on the serviceable but slow Virtual PC. I could use Apple’s BootCamp to boot into Windows, or the promising Parallels Worksatation virutalization software, to run Windows as a guest operating system under Mac OS X. However, most of my music software hasn’t been ported to Intel Macs yet, so I’m torn, because I’d rather deal with a single machine. Still, maybe I’ll get a low-cost Intel iBook when they finally ship and use it for translation, and keep my iMac G5 for music-making.
To be continued…
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