Computer Update

Welcome to My Book
Originally uploaded by otarako.

I have big plans for the laptop, specifically have it run parallels. Though using a mac makes everything so much easier, it just is not the cheapest. Running an old pc and a new macbook, there are a lot of incompatibilities and inconsistencies. Right now, I can access the mac from the pc but not the pc from the mac except for itunes. Don't ask me, I've gone through every possible theory. I was never able to access the mac using a ubuntu pc either, who knows what was going on. So if I want to watch a movie on the mac, i have to copy it to the ipod and then off to the mac. When I'm on the road, there is no music due to a smallish hard drive at 60 gb w/ over half going to photos right now. Printing has also been a big issue as I have to physically unplug the printer from the pc and directly to the mac. It would be significantly better to either have a server or possibly just a nas w/ a usb attached printer. I also need a bigger hard drive to cover some of the issues. To cover the first issue of running parallels I had to get more RAM. (FYI Vista and Office 2007 are like $15 total at our bookstore due to some campus agreement w/ Microsoft). Installing RAM and a new harddrive in a macbook is suppose to be extremely easy. There have been tons of how to's most ending in as little as 30 seconds. It took no time to take out the RAM but I had plenty of trouble after that. After installing and uninstalling and reinstalling 10 times I could not get the new RAM or the initial RAM to work. I finally read up on the apple support website which stated you had to press extremely hard. Needless to say it took a lot of flexing by both myself and the new RAM module but it finally worked. Hopefully any further updates go much smoother.