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  1. 17-Jan-2013 #1
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    Funny how you can get attached to things.

    I'm making my first post on this site with my new computer. my dearly loved Mac has finally given up the ghost after 7 years of hard labor. I guess using it as a tv for years on end and playing endless rounds of Rome: Total War finally took its toll on the screen. I held off getting a new one until the bitter frickin' end. it is rather sad in a way even though it is just a machine. I probably should've bought a new one about a year ago but just could bring myself to put the other one down. 7 years is like 125 in computer terms, I know. if this one is half as good as my old one, then i'll be a very happy camper. RIP Haakon the Mac.
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    Hope you didn't lose too much data!
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Sorry for your loss. Maybe you can find a support group, or start one...
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    Was the old one a G5?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Hope you didn't lose too much data!
    I didn't lose any data. it was the video card in the computer that was obviously on the point of bowing out. so, rather than spend the money to fix a 7 year old computer, I did the sensible thing and bought a newer one. the cpu in the other one is working fine. I just linked them together so they could talk to one another and transferred all of my stuff that wasn't already saved to data DVDs and flash drives.
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