My five year old 12” MacBook is showing its age. The battery needs replacing. $200. The display needs replacing. $500. So reluctantly I bought a new one. Reluctantly because my IPad Pro meets 95%+ of my needs and is a very enticing device, but a few apps, particularly iWeb, only work on Macs, and I have almost two decades of photos on my MacBook that I don’t want to transfer to the iPad. I attempted to move the photo library to an external drive which almost led to disaster and I will not try again.
Apple stopped making 12” MacBooks six months ago but a few big vendors still have them and I was able to find one with the specs I want. It arrived yesterday and the setup and transfer of data went smoothly this morning. This one is gold because gold was $100 cheaper than space gray or silver. I can live with it.
Possibly this will be my last laptop. I seldom make changes to my main website except to add new articles as they are published. I did a few days ago add to the wit/wisdom page: Read some poetry and listen to some Bach everyday. I thought about adding: And don’t eat too much. But decided not to. I do need to replace the chart with one that includes the GANNET voyage, but I expect that I can soon consider the website complete and add whatever new I want here in this journal.
I bought my first laptop in September 1992, a month after I sank RESURGAM. It was an Apple PowerBook and at $2400 the most expensive computer I have owned. It had 4 MB of RAM and a 40 MB hard drive and a slot for floppies. Those are not typos. I wrote two books on it.
Outside is gray and grim and gloomy and cold and unphotogenic, so I will be running older photos that I recently came across. The above was taken by Patrick as GANNET and I entered Bundaberg, Australia, on the passage from New Zealand. I thank him.
I thank Larry for the link to this Bliss cartoon.
