The World's Forgotten, The Words Forbidden

PC: And I'm a PC...

Mac: I look all white and sexy...*click*....

PC: I'm boring aparantly...

Mac: *click*...I have cool software like GarageBand and...*click*...iLife...*click*...

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I recently bought a MacBook and was very pleased with it. It took a while getting used to...twas awkward not having a task bar but I've got the hang of it. I'm mainly going to keep the MacBook for "fun", e.g. music, vidoes, photos etc. and then keep my Windows laptop for "work", e.g. programming, essay writing etc.

BUT...the reason for this blog is that I am having to take the MacBook back today! Every so often (ranging from every 10 secs to every minute" the MacBook was making an annoying clicking sound. I did some research and found out that it was due to the hard drive parking it's needle too often, something which should only happen in older hard drives. So seeing as the laptop was less than a week old, I was not happy.

I rang technical support first and they took me through a few things to try n fix it, but to no avail. The most annoying thing is that there isn't an Apple shop in the whole of Wales! So I'm taking the train home to Birmingham to return it there. Ah well, at least I get to see my girlfriend :D

So yeah...Gwant am cwy :'(

Oh...and, is it just me...or does anyone else feel reeeeaally guilty when they get a new computer? Every time I was using the Mac I could hear my laptop shouting at me going: "What about me Grant? Don't you love me any more?"

Well actually...Hitachi/Toshiba/Anyone but Ubuntu kill.

Many people have no doubt heard about Ubuntu supposedly killing people's laptop hard drives. Turns out Ubuntu doesn't actually touch your hard drive power management settings, and its the BIOS or firmware on the hard disk which enables such aggressive power management.

Luckily there's a fix! I hate copy and pasting a load of commands into the terminal to fix a problem when I don't actually know what those commands are doing, but this one seemed pretty straightforward(ish).

How to fix the problem.

My load cycle count is now on 45,205 and only rising at the rate it should! I'm hoping that's normal for a hard drive that is roughly a year and a half old. Woopie! Still...ignorance is bliss, I thought hard drives magically lasted forever :(

The problem now is...I'm constantly listening to my hard drive and I'm paranoid every time it makes any kind of noise. Me thinks I'll save my monies and get myself a separate cheap laptop for Linux so that I don't have to dual boot with Vista.

Last problem to solve now...is to get Ubuntu to stop thinking my modem is my sound card and to get the bloody sound working!