Resurrection of the Black Beauty

My Mac is back, and with a full install of Leopard.   I have been laying the foundation of this Uber unit over the weekend and so far, it is working like a charm.

Parallels, was one of the first programs I installed on this beauty, nothing says pie in your face to the Microsoft crowd like having Windows running on a Apple.   I have XP pro corporate running in a Virtual Machine, I gave it 1GIG of virtual ram and about 30GIGs of expanding "virtual" space.

Ubuntu, is a Linux install I wanted to do next.  But I ran into some issues with it, stalling and unable to capture screen resolution correctly.

I discovered this was not a unique problem.   I had to install Ubuntu 7.04 (installing 7.10 has complications).   Its always stupid little things, but thankfully Google saved the day.

The Day my MacBook died

Merry X-Mass.

Yikes, I never thought I would see the day where a Mac bit the dust, but it has in fact done so. Specifically, the native hard-drive that came with the unit. I was able to save and back up the crux of my work but not everything.

This is a picture of the boot-up screen. I am now looking to get another SATA Hard-drive and a new installation of Leopard.

I am on my PowerBookG4 now, old faithful with a PPC chip-set (not the Intel)

It just goes to show that all machines are prone to wear and tear, I am not a snooty Mac user, and in Mac's defense it was just a hard-drive failure not a virus that bricked the thing.