The Dieing Beast

Joe and I have become Mac people. I'm proud of this fact. I feel like a PC just isn't quite with it anymore. It lacks something that just comes with a Mac. None the less, we still run one PC upstairs. It was a gift a few years back, yet it seemed that it was quickly outdating itself when we got it. Two years ago, we acquired a PC laptop, a dell..it wasn't much better. Then, I got my new job, and the heavens opened up and presented us with Mac. School gave me one! Granted, it's only an iBook g4, and Joe now has a nice Powerbook, but it's still a mac! And you know what? It doesn't matter how restricted I am, I can still do everything I want or need to do on a mac, regardless of my restrictions! The basic platform is just so complete for us! If I need to do anything special, I just use Joe's.

None the less, we've still got our one PC running. It's more or less a hub. The router connects here as does the printer. With the feat of getting up really early last black Friday, we invested a whole of $20 for all the storage space we could ever want in a 200 gig HD. I even installed it!

Sadly, over the past few days, it's been dieing on us. I'm going to be very honest with you. For once, I'm not nearly phased by this computer conking out! Yes, I have a lot of music and pictures stored on the second storage drive, but that drive is just fine! It's the master. It needs replacing..I realized today that if I wait until Thanksgiving, I can go out and get another HD for pennies and fix my computer for LESS than the cost of recovering all of the info on that second drive. I still don't quite want to let go of it just yet. We may never use it. It may just be a go between, but I still feel like I can spend 20 bucks to repair it..but definately no more than that!