Salt Life

Definitely Mac!

Some time ago I shared with you a dilemma we were facing as a homeschool family regarding our computer situation. We were in the midst of deciding which direction to go...add a third Mac or cave to a PC. We'll, waiting on the Lord sure pays off! Here's where we landed:

The friends I mentioned in my previous post gave us their old eMac due to some serious issues they were having with it freezing up. My husband did some online research on this dinosaur of a machine and discovered an interesting bit of information. There was still a warranty attached to our new beast...one that included free replacement of the mother board. All we had to do was prove to the "Geniuses" at the Apple store that our computer had mother board issues. This was no easy task. We got the feeling they would have rather seen us throw the relic into a dumpster and have us purchase a brand-stinking new gMac. After putting in a new hard drive to rule that out as the cause of our problems, we finally made a little headway. But they still pushed back....well, they obviously didn't know who they were dealing with! That Russian blood my husband carries through his veins has a stubborn streak in it not to be reckoned with!

After three trips to the Genius Bar and not a little vexation, they finally agreed that it was the motherboard and sent it off for repair. About a week later, we received the long anticipated phone call...she was ready for us to come pick her up. We eagerly made our final trip to the Apple store to retrieve her. Once through the doors of our home, we plugged her in and...she worked! And beautifully at that!

To quickly finish my story, my "computer guy," aka Super Dave, aka my husband, installed "Virtual PC" last night and we can now run Windows on our Mac, very weird! Benjamin and Mollie can now begin using the home school software we purchased! I'm very happy about that; I'm not sure if they are! In the end the total cost of pulling it all together: $60 for the hard drive, a few dollars in gas driving back and forth to the Apple store, $120 for Virtual PC. Not bad!

Labels: gadgets

posted by Kushmama @ 4:29 PM