Picking through the ashes
Posted by Daryl on 10 June 2008 at 05:48 PM
Well, I’m still down at the moment. My macbook is still in the shop and the three days I was told to get it back to me has stretched into five. Admittedly, it’s not too bad as I can work off of Ubuntu on this Lenovo X300, but it’s still not the same as having your operating environment optimized yet. And I think I’d have to do a lot to get Ubuntu working the way I want (though I am super impressed at how far it’s come in terms of usability and its speed compared to OSX).
Anyhow, I was trying to explain to someone who was a little less than sympathetic about what it’s like when you live out of your laptop (as sad as that sounds, it’s not. It’s just that a lot of your life is computer mediated in terms of impact). Basically, this is what I came up with with having the system out of my hands at the moment and putting together backups :
It’s kinda like having your house burn down and be sitting there picking through the ashes, looking to make sure that you’ve still got all the really important things you think about (photos, journals, correspondence, keys) but not being quite sure if you’ve got everything until you’ve got a chance to move into a new place and make sure everything is there.
Anyhow, it is a bit like that and ewven with the backups and my almost surety now that I’ve got everything (or can get back the other files), it is still making me feel quite stressed and not like my normal bouncy, zen-like self.
One way or another though, I’ll have a mac in here tomorrow, even if the old one isn’t fixed.
Interestingly, after working with a SSD equipped X300 though I am really kind of looking at the possibility of the Macbook Air now. The SSD on the X300 was very fast I felt and the machine was very snappy under Ubuntu. not if they could just make them a titch bigger. 64GB is just too small at the mo. When are we due to se the next gen on these ?