(Diary) Have been through a tech chrisis of (1) my 17″ macbook pro hard drive cr

(Diary)
Have been through a tech chrisis of (1) my 17″ macbook pro hard drive crashing (thankfully I recovered it, with a lot of effort). (2) Dropping one of my macbook pros and breaking the screen (the one I’m using now with an external monitor), and (3) the ohter macbook pro battery popped open the case (ballooned) which is what happens before they spontaneously combust and burn your house down. (4) leaving me with a headless mac server and an ipad with keyboard, and my two iphones. Meaning I’m basically working on an iPad. (and oddly really liking it – other than the UI is clumsy for working with many browser windows.)

COSTS
#1 Macbook Pro 15 Retina Battery Replacement
$70 for the battery (OMG so many scams out there)
$100 for the 24hr install (local guy)
#2 Macbook pro 15 Retina Screen Replacement
Nope: about the same price as a full replacement unit, so I’ll pull the drive, memory, and get a replacement. 😉
Refurbished ~$500-600.
#3 Macbook pro 17 pre-retina drive replacement.
About $60

DUMB QUESTIONS
Q: “Curt why are you using 2014/2015 Macbook Pros?”
A: “Because they have retina displays, good keyboards, proper function keys, and lots of PORTS. I absolutely hate this minimize-ports nonsense apple’s been trying. The new macbook pros are faster for video but otherwise provide no increase in value as a desktop replacement for someone doing largely academic work. These two laptops were the best apple made at the time, fully spec’d out, and I can’t find a reason to replace them.
“…Most of what I do is keep four screens, and around 100+ chrome browser windows open organized into those four screens and within screens with tabs, because I use WordPress as my word processor, and database (it’s awesome). And otherwise it’s just my Telephone, Zoom, and Signal.”

And if you think I’m odd, you should see Brandon’s office – it looks like Cheyanne Mountain in that War Games movie. I’m half convinced he’s got a beta of Skynet running from there. Either that or he has the world’s largest organization of cam girls working for him in eastern europe. 😉

You don’t know him, his wife, or his mother. I do. That would just NEVER happen. 😉 That’s why it’s funny. 😉 And it’s funny, not because of the female family members. But because Brandon has zero (really below zero) patience for dealing with nitwits, psychos, and drama. 😉

I love that man. 😉