Big Cat Country loses a friend: The untimely loss of my Laptop.
by River City Rage on Apr 28, 2009 10:18 PM EDT
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We have gathered here today to mourn the loss of a close friend of Big Cat Country. My MacBookPro, who's been with me for over two years, passed away during the night. She had a wonderful life, covering two drafts, going to New York City and Indianapolis for the Combine, traveling overseas, and being with us for the ups and downs of a good season and a bad one. My MacBook has done it all, live blogged press conferences, watched games, avoided screwdriver spills at bars and survived all sorts of travel and abuse.
Now, it's hard to get sad about this, she did not fall to a virus or malware, no, she went to sleep and never woke up after a long life. While it's frustrating, let's remember that my MacBook waitied until after the draft and the reading of all 3,000 comments before falling apart.
In all seriousness, my laptop died this morning and it will effect my blogging in the short term. A replacement, thankfully, is under control, though these things never happen at a good financial time. I ask for your understanding if I'm a little quiet this week, as I'm living on borrowed computer power. My computer, however strange this sounds, is as much a part of my being a Jaguars fan as anything else. It's been to countless sports bars in Missouri and Florida, avoiding spills and staying connected as I live blog from afar. It's as much connected to my game day experience as Yuengling and Screwdrivers.
So, tonight, I pay my respects. Thank you MacBook Pro, I know two years seems short, but I don't think anyone uses their computer for work and play as much as I do. I'd bet that of the 2 years I've owned it, it's been powered down for less than 20 days. Parting, is such sweet sorrow, of course, but I'm not mad. Sure, It's hard to afford a new one, but I really couldn't have asked for more out of a laptop.
So raise your glass tonight for my MacBook, the next one just won't be the same.
-Chris
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R.I.P.
Rest In Peace dearly departed lifeblood of the Big Cat Country IT Department.
Will there be a viewing at Big Cat Country World Headquarters? Id love to say a few special words…and hoist an ICB in its honor!
Go Jags! Some people are like Slinky's...not really good for anything but they make you smile when pushed down the stairs.
Well Macs suck anyay.
May it rest in peace and never be replaced by an aesthetically pleasing yet overly priced piece of hardware.
For once I agree with Slvrgun
"I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your mouth."-Bill Hicks
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by Jonathan Loesche on Apr 29, 2009 12:15 AM EDT up reply actions
Nah
I have one just like this fallen brother and it is great. Windows users don’t like them because they fear change and get confused by the differences.
by Adam Stites on Apr 29, 2009 12:16 AM EDT up reply actions
Nah, Macs just suck
The tower I built cost me cost me around $900. It includes a HD4870 Graphics card, a 2.8GHz quad core processor, 6 GBs of RAM, and a terrabyte harddrive. Just to give you an idea, I can run Crysis(a game neither the PS3 or 360 can run in their wildest dreams) on max settings have it playable. If all of those things had an “i” in front of their names, it would have cost me $3000.
"I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your mouth."-Bill Hicks
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by Jonathan Loesche on Apr 29, 2009 12:24 AM EDT up reply actions
Macs suck
My ex wife had one. That’s why I divorced her. (just kidding). Seriously though, I tried to get into it. Those things are not compatible with anything else on the market it seems, and they’re not user friendly. How does that sound appealing? Exactly.
read my comment below
really though, its simple if someone spends 5 minutes showing ya
Surreal to be Teal
I know how to use one
But I don’t LIKE them, AT ALL. I bought a printer from walmart one year. It was a nice printer. Very modern. Moderately priced. The damn thing wouldn’t work on her Mac. Why? Because everything has to be special with Apple. They suck. Like I said, they’re not user friendly. Everything you do on a Mac is a pain in the a##. From what I’ve heard, and I believe it, you either love em or you hate em. Well, I’m a hater.
Totally Disagree
There very user friendly. I used a PC for 10 years or so, switched to a mac about a year ago and picked it up in no time. I don’t have to worry about spyware or virus’s, programs crashing, the thing is fast as shit, and I haven’t had any issues with compatibility. Andddd I have windows running on this thing the same time I’m running my mac os, pretty sweet if you ask me.
Probably because no one develops virus for Macs, considering...
The have like 8% market share.
Vista and Win7 are more secure than OSX (check out the Safari exploit).
Program crashes are almost always related to poor driver software.
Running Windows on OSX shouldn’t be a bullet point. It is an embarrassment that the Mac user needs Windows to run programs.
Let me know how easy it is to switch your Motherboard, HDD, add RAM, a new Processor to the Lock downed Mac and Apple ecosystem.
Yeah Im waiting.
/best thread for the return to the NFL doldrums.
Who cares?
Why would you need to switch your motherboard or hard drive? Oh thats right , when they break you have to replace them. Adding ram is simple as removing the battery, running windows is essential to do usability testing on different browsers for my work. And lastly when I’m downloading and watching porn I don’t have worry about some stupid thing called Trojan.Packed.13. embedding it’s way in my machine or Porn.Finder.exe downloading it’s self to my desktop and ruining my day. How bout them apples?
Oh you need to be babysitted by your OS.
I get it.
If you get Trojans, Viruses, and spyware you do not know how to run a computer.
A Mac is perfect for you.
Mind giving some more thoughts on Windows 7?
My computer runs Vista fine, but I’ve been thinking of swapping. Any big differences or is it just a better optimized version of Vista?
"I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your mouth."-Bill Hicks
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by Jonathan Loesche on Apr 29, 2009 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions
Ok Quick Review
Windows 7 is the evolution of the Vista platform.
Its is sleeker, more responsive, faster, more secure, and more reliable than Vista or XP.
When you clean install it takes about an hour or less to get going.
You’re greeted by a new UI that combines the best features of Apple"s dock and Vista’s Windows Aero. It’s called the SuperBar. You can pin your favorite programs to it and some of them have what you call “jumplists” which are like options (WM12 Example) to play a song or jump through playlists, (IE8 Example) Launch a InPrivate Window, Go to Favorites, Or open a new tab. More programs will be getting jumplists in the future.
If you hover over programs on your superbar you will see a realtime snapshot window of them hovering over the icon. In IE8 for example you can see each tab that is open and close it if you prefer. Or like I said you can open a new tab. If you want to close all the tabs in IE you just rightclick on the IE icon and you can close all of them at once. If you hover over WMP12 you can see like the video you are playing and three small buttons: Rewind Play/Pause or Forward.
The Entire dock is also transparent. You can create you own aero themes (like you can make the dock teal and have a slideshow of Jaguars cheerleaders running as your wallpaper). They eliminated the side bar and now you can put gadgets anywhere. You can now snap windows to the left, right and top of the screen. Snapping right or left will made the windows half size allowing you to snap one next to it so you can see them both. Snapping a window to the top of the screen will maximize it. Shaking the topmost window with the mouse will minimize all windows. A small vertical button in the right corner will show you entire desktop. If you have a window open your wife/gf shouldn’t see you can hover over it and all windows will disappear (Windows Peak). The notifications (those little icons near the time) are now gathered into one small arrow pointing upward. Many devices now do not require drivers (real plug and play). Search is improved. You can disable services from the jump. Media Center (which is spectactular) can connect to Xbox 360 and PS3 without the long setup. More support for codecs. Networking is easier. Support for (I think 92 GBs of Ram).....×64 Win7 Ultimate.
Too much to add. It’s a beast. Try it. www.windows7center.com
Support up to 92 GBs of memory O_O
Microsoft must think this is going to go down in history books. That being said, 7 seems to correct all the problems with Vista. Then again, I’m currently running Yellow Dog on my PS3 to view this.
"I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your mouth."-Bill Hicks
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by Jonathan Loesche on Apr 30, 2009 12:23 AM EDT up reply actions
puter
May it rest in peace please listen to 92.1 and they sometimes have computers for sale reasonable price hope this helps
Armand Riendeau
by armjag1 on Apr 29, 2009 12:27 AM EDT reply actions
She's going to the big repair shop in the sky.
Sorry for your loss.
I will quote one of my favorite writers that just happens to fit this situation and my feeling toward Macs -
“I didn’t attend the funeral but, I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.”
Jacksonville Jaguars. It's what I do.
Thats
a lot of money to spend on a computer that only lasted 2 years. Mac mini has been with me for almost two years and still going strong (on archlinux of course:))
Yes, it's an early sign.
Heat kills laptops.
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by River City Rage on Apr 29, 2009 11:22 AM EDT up reply actions
You could probably replace it if you google what happened.
I’m sure you find a million forums on how to replace it.
Here's a tip.
Get an HP, or a top-end Toshiba model.
Wipe them and install Windows 7.
You’ll never go back to OSX ever again.
Too bad Windows 7 isn't out
And that Vista is what drove me and a lot of other new Mac users to Apple in the first place.
by MoveThoseChains on Apr 29, 2009 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Vista was only bad if you had horrible Hardware.
Windows 7 RC is available on the major torrent networks. You can find a beta key and it will work until March 2010.
The RC is a near complete build of the final version of Windows 7.
I am using it now. Brilliant OS.
I used Vista on some pretty good computers
And just kept being underwhelmed. I ended up installing XP on a partition of my Macbook, but I rarely use it, and every time that I do, I think how hard and unintuitive it is to use compared to OSX. But I do hate all the aggressive Mac fanboys, so I don’t try to convince anyone to get one. I just state my personal preference.
by MoveThoseChains on Apr 29, 2009 2:24 PM EDT up reply actions
agree
i love my macbook, but it’s ultimately just personal preference.
it’s god’s law that the titans suck though.
This whole computer conversation lost me about 24 hrs ago anyway
I hate Macs, but I hate the Flaming thumbtacks more.
And i hate that virus which hit my PC
two days ago. I already repaired most of the damage with the help of the friend of mine, but I must made sooooo many things again, and I didn’t finished with lot of that yet. It hurted my audio, so temporaly Iwithout sound (but I hope today-I’M mean Thursday) I can fix it, but I must skipped live Post-draft “Jaguars this week”.
Those idiots who write viruses to destroy the files, details and the joy of surfing a net I would punish, NFL style: I would throw him(I guess it was a guy) to the jaguars practice field, without any safety to defense to practice him how can they effective tackle…. ARGGGGH!
by Zoltan from Budapest on Apr 29, 2009 8:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Sorry to hear about your loss
I raise my “stiff” crown and coke, toss up a high elbow and wish you luck on getting your replacement!
Everybody knows when he's coming to town
They're locking the doors
And they don't make a sound
People want him dead but he won't die yet
First he's got to live
With all the things that he did
You murderer
That’s what you get for not buying an extended warranty.
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