Last blog post, I spoke about the dead MyBook external drive on my PC. Turns out it’s not so dead, after all.
I took the MyBook off the shelf and plugged it into my Macintosh. Bip! The drive mounted instantly and was recognized as “My Book,” the name I gave it on the PC.
The drive didn’t fail; Windows Vista Backup did.
So I have a bonus drive. It’s only 500GB, so I can’t use it as the Mac’s backup drive; the Mac has a 1TB (1,000GB) main drive, so 500GB would be too small. I’ll just put the drive back up on the shelf until some other drive fails. It’s good to have the bonus storage.
Speaking of my Macintosh . . .
It’s an iMac, Core i7 model. I love it, but really miss my Mac Pro. I liked the Mac Pro because of its expandability. I often run desperately short of expansion options; the iMac has only 4 USB ports, which is far too few for my greedy USB needs.
Speaking of Macintosh, which means Apple . . .
Apple had a blow-out quarter financially. I don’t know what the stock will do today, but yesterday it rocketed up to nearly 400 dollars/share. Holy smokes!
I believe that the market’s jitters over Steve Jobs’ inevitable demise have calmed.
For now.
Speaking of Apple . . .
Rumor has it that Apple releases today (7/20) the latest version of their Mac OS X operating system, code-named Lion. As usual, the Mac Fanboys are agog.
I’m not a true Mac Fanboy, and I really couldn’t care less about Mac OS X Lion. To me, it’s another step toward the walled garden hell of control that Jobs seems to want for his customers. It also seems to deviate even more from the core of Unix than its predecessors.
The nice thing about Mac OS X for me is its close ties to Unix. I enjoy using a Terminal window and typing in Unix commands. Mac OS X Snow Leopard (the current version) deviated a bit from standard Unix, and Lion does so even more. Enough for me!
Speaking of Mac OS X . . .
It makes me wonder what’s next for OS X. If Lion brings the desktop computer one step closer to the closed environment of the iPhone and iPad, what could be next?
