Warning! Unusual rant. I totally snapped after my new Mac just died.

Just when I get my Photoshop, it died. The damn thing just stopped working while I was checking my gmail. It wouldn’t force quit nor restart, so I had to reboot the hard way. Then it couldn’t startup again. I mean, it has only been 2 months since I got my Macbook and it’s already half dead either because of overheating or a hard disk error.

My laptop is my life. I play, communicate and work with it. No computer under my use has ever had major problems. I meticulously care for its software and other functions (though not too conscious about the cleanliness of its exterior heh!). No one defrags and run anti-virus/spyware programs as frequently as I do. Even the supposed impenetrable Mac was well taken care of.

Seriously, with all the hype about how superior Macs are to Windows, this is the shittiest experience I’ve had with a computer. I didn’t even do anything for it to die. Gmail can’t possibly kill 2GB RAM on a 2.16Ghz Intel Core Duo with enough space left to fit 20 HQ movies. Can you imagine if I was in a middle of an essay and it just suddenly died? I would have seriously jumped off the building.

Steve Jobs better be making laptops with some durability in the future. I mean you are quite a failure of an engineer if a user can’t trust his/her own computer to function without suddenly wiping out the hard disk for no reason at all.

When Apple is done fixing it, I will be selling it for cheap. I should have stayed a loyal customer to Sony to begin with. Looks like I will end up with a Pink Sony Laptop after all.

TO MAC FANATICS: Shut the hell up. It’s not hip for a computer to die on you may it be Windows, Linux or Mac. With such a horrifying experience, I will probably never own an Apple product again.

I’ve never really been an anime fan - especially when the anime club in every school look like a congregation of losers without lives. I used to watch a few after school when was in my early teens, for dinner companionship. But I like watching anime now (though I’m not one of them no-life people), thanks to a certain someone, who forced me to watch Blood+.

Animes offer a mature escape from reality - unlike most cartoons. For me, watching TV or movies have always just been an escapade from reality. That means I don’t watch anything unless I’m forced, stressed or emotionally disturbed. This is why I don’t like watching shows with real actors. I prefer them to be as far as reality as possible. As a kid/teen, I’d watch cartoons. But now, at 21, cartoons have lost their appeal. And animes has filled the hole that cartoons cannot.

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Apple advocates rejoice! I am now using a black macbook. After tampering with it for several hours, I’ve finally gotten the hang of it and can find most basic and some advanced settings with relative ease.

I have to admit the switch wasn’t as smooth as I hoped it would be. I accidentally renamed the home folder and screwed up a lot of settings. I ended up reinstalling the bundled apps, deleting the original users and so forth. Rectifying it took me 3 hours. Then I wasn’t able to transfer files from my trusty old vaio to my mac because the external hard drive was formatted in NFTS, which is a system that Macs can only read but not write. (Think CHMOD, web designers) My external HDD got stuck on the Mac, I couldn’t eject or force quit, so I just plugged it out in the end.

But after all the hassle and the frustration. I love the Mac. The screen is amazingly bright even without the power cord. The keyboard is really easy to type on, and the iSight Webcam is really high quality for its size. Oh and did I mention, I have Windows Vista Ultimate running on my mac? Too bad the sound isn’t working on the Vista.

Now, if only I have all my web design programs on this machine. Then maybe I could actually completing my layouts and making new ones.