Sunday, May 20, 2007

PSU Goes Bye-Bye - Hello Mac?

Damn, of all the things I could do without, the PSU on my main PC has died in haze of smelly smoke. It's been threatening to do it for a while, and now it's made good on the threat.

Touch-wood, the local PC shop can supply me and over-priced one tomorrow - whack it in and hope the fact it died didn't take out the hard-drives with it as I've been a bit lack in my back-ups recently. Should be OK. Oh. 1000s of AdWords keywords, photos, new sites. Oh, Oh, Oh - how many times have I smuggly told my friends to back-up regular? Drat. Hot dang. Touch wood the PSU dying won't have affected the drives.

It's been giving me jip the last few months, most mornings it's taken a couple of boots to get it going. I thought it might have been a Windows issue so I re-installed and that didn't help. Then something I read suggested the PSU was at fault. Now that would seem to be proved. Things like this happen at the most annoying times. Had a lot of work on tomorrow, now it's going to be spent faffing with the replacing it - if I can get one.

My current PC is coming up on 4 years old. I built it myself - and have made a number of upgrades (extra memory just recently) and it would have done for a while longer. I've been keeping an eye on a new one - wasn't going to build it myself as it's so time consuming.

That said, I've actually come around to the idea of getting an Mac. Yes. That's right, this Apple hater now may get one. More shock horror. Thing is, I don't have time to mess around with the PC stuff all the time like I used too, so I want something that works, and now I see I can run Windows via something called Parallels, so I could theoretically still use the little quirky bits of Windows software I love under the Mac's GUI.

I did have a Mac way back at the turn of the century, before I even know what a PC was. I was planning on getting one maybe in 6 or 7 months - but maybe I should just bite the bullet and grab one now. But then, if I have to pay for a new PSU I'll probably put it off even longer. Fun and games - it would be nice to have the money to do it now, but at the moment it's an expense to far.

Posted by Dio Bach at 21:35

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