June 4, 2006
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:56 pm by Ian
- Lose contest of will with Apple marketing department. Order Macbook.
- Enjoy spirited discussion with Amazon.com customer service agent regarding expected delivery date of July 20, rebate deadline of June 30, and requirement that delivery invoice be included with rebate.
- Receive Macbook a few days later. Contemplate the fact that, as of receipt date, Amazon.com still lists the item as “Not Yet Released.”
- Start up Macbook and make an account.
- Install Parallels Virtualization software.
- Install Windows.
- Connect old laptop, and run migration wizard to move files and settings over.
- User account from old laptop, which has the same name as the new user account I’ve created. It is not possible to merge the accounts, so the old one is renamed. There is a radio button, but it is greyed out.
- Delete new account. Discover that it is not possible to change the name of an account without a whole lot of work.
- Connect old laptop again, and run migration wizard. Now have two copies of old account, one poorly named.
- Delete poorly named old account.
- Install Parallels Virtualization software.
- Install Windows.
- Discover that Windows is too slow without more memory. Install Boot Camp.
- Boot Camp error: Cannot move some files; reformat and reinstall, then run Boot Camp again.
- Reformat
- Install Mac OS X
- Install Boot Camp
- Install Windows
- Get network errors running the One Damn Game I wanted to run.
- Install additional memory.
- Install Parallels Virtualization Software
- Install Windows.
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