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[the_rck]

I feel like swearing and crying at the same time. Last night, I purchased OS X Mountain Lion. Today, I tried to install it and had an awful time because I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do to access the download. I actually had to do a chat with Apple's help staff.

Once I knew where to find it, I tried to download it only to get a message saying that my hardware can't support Mountain Lion. Apparently, my current system is as far as my hardware can go, and I'm stuck. That means there's no way to upgrade any of the software that ties into the OS. I can't update Safari. I can't update iChat. I can't ever use FaceTime (I supposedly have it on my computer, but it won't run under Lion).

Scott says that the dealership wants $3000 to replace the exhaust system. That's more than the car is worth. He wants me to call around to see if there's any place reputable that can/will do it for enough less to make it worth doing (he said around $1000. I think he's dreaming if he thinks we'll find that. $1500 might be possible, but... Yeah). I've gotten four recommendations, two for one particular place. I'll be calling another place first, though, because the recommendation comes from a friend who, in turn, had originally been directed there by a mutual friend. It doesn't hurt that that's the only recommendation that includes a phone number.

I'll start making calls as soon as I stop being quite so upset about the OS fiasco. (Supposedly, I can get my money back, but that requires a phone call and some hoop jumping, and I'm not sure I can handle that today, maybe not tomorrow either.)

Comments

[yuuago]

D: Oh no, that really sucks. I hope that you'll be able to get your money back for the OS. ... The car problem sounds like it'll probably be harder to take care of. :/

[the_rck]

I'm pretty sure I can get my money back, assuming I can bring myself to make the phone call. It's just that phone calls are hard enough for me that I'm tempted to let the $20 go. I shouldn't, but I don't know if I'll feel capable of making a phone call tomorrow after dragging myself through today and the five or six phone calls I had to make about the car.

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

Aw, honey. That sucks. :(

*hugs*

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

Maddening! It was exactly that type of garbage that made Jan switch from Apple products to Windows.

*hug*

*pops up from nowhere*

[seabroth.livejournal.com]

I actually recently bought myself a used computer (that has to be fixed up again) to be able to install OS 9. The new OSes just keep getting worse and worse, and in whatever version I have now for example, you can't even turn off stuff like "new version! you must download this!" notifications that show up practically every day. They try to force you into updating everything, even though almost all of their updates only seem to affect the layout/navigation/hackability and don't really improve things... When my wife updated Garageband, they actually REMOVED stuff!

My biggest problem though is that the overall in OSX ythe system font is way too small and you can't change it, but you can in OS 9... Same with the screen resolution, there's very few sizes to pick from and I need mine "smaller" than what's allowed in the newest computers! I know that I'm a minority case, but it's pretty annoying.

About the hardware itself - I got a used Mac laptop when I was in high school and it still works even now (5+ years later). Some keys fell off the keyboard, the battery died, and the charger died but otherwise nothing's ever been wrong with it and it still boots up perfectly fine. My current one I bought just about two years ago - the battery died within the first year I believe it was, then the hard-drive died at about the year and a half mark, the USB ports get extremely easily bent and even though I've already had them fixed once they just got bent all to hell even just a couple weeks after I got it back from the shop (that's never happened on any computer I've ever had before - I barely even use USBs!) and now it's having various weird problems in general... After all that, I decided that I can put up with a slow, heavy, old computer as long as it means that it's stable and I don't have to kill my eyes while using it.