Square peg in a round hole
My Hackintosh has just come out of major surgery.
The amazing Mr K gave up his entire long weekend – and when I say entire, I mean day and night for 4 whole days – to remodel my Hackintosh.
(I cannot take credit for this photo. I wish I could. If it's yours and you want credit, let me know)
After months and months of promising to upgrade my hard drive, and nip and tuck all the stuff that's fallen apart since its original hack job, he finally caved after I sent him an email with the subject line wailing, “You broke my Flash!!“
(He did. He broke it. And left me with no YouTube, no LOLcats, no Google stats for weeks. Weeks. I know.)
So with the kind of grim determination and sheer mule-like stubbornness typical of a rabid Apple/Steve-Jobs-is-the-Messiah disciple, Mr K set his face to the wind and began the gruelling 4-day odyssey that is attempting to force Microsoft into the Apple mold.
Because PCs don't submit easily. My Dell laptop put up one hell of a fight.
There was blood, sweat, tears, cursing, huffing, puffing, googling advice from other hackers, clutching of heads. Innumerable groans of “Ahhh… dammit!“
The occasional “Ah-ha!!”
It seemed interminable.
Until, finally, at about 10 o'clock last night, Mr K wearily hands over my laptop and says, “Give that a go.”
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What a man.
Every beauty needs a geek 
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But I wouldn't put him through that again. I'm now saving for a gorgeous new MacBook Air.
Because they just work.
Look what living with a geek does to you.
xx Kiki
Macbook Airs are gorgeous but the specs are horrible — you could get a much better Macbook/Pro for the price of an Air. But if you want the looks, then I’d go for it — I’m sorely, sorely tempted to, lol! But I’m a bit of a geek and specs may eventually win out over looks (though it’s killing me inside, it really is).
All your talk of a Hackintosh is making me think about hacking one of my old netbooks, lol! Will see how it goes.
Agree with A – MacBook Air is all beauty and no brains.
A few months back, I went to buy an iPad to replace (complement…?) my old MacBook but the great pricing (thanks to the strong $AU) made it too easy to buy a MacBook Pro.
My other half is a geek – he’s an engineer and not a cool engineer like a civil engineer but the electronics kind. It has its’ perks…..has its’ downsides too…ha ha. If I was wondering what side of the spectrum our son will fall on, he declared earlier this week “that the earth couldn’t become a black hole because pressure is exerted on it and it’s not cold.” Incredible from a four and a half year old – too bad he can’t put his socks on himself!
Yep..every Beauty needs a Geek…I refer to Mr. M as Mr.Fixit….he fixes up everything fore me…
ahh love this post! a geeky other half does come handy at times. My laptop’s monitor died a week ago so I need to get a new laptop- So tempted to get mac air, but yeah the specs aint that good. my bf is quite a geek too and he also can fix everything hehe..
so sad you have gone AWOL Kiki – hope all is well.
looking forward to your next post (would love to see Kiki’s guide to patchwork quilting) ~annie
Agreed Annie! Come back Kiki!!
Where’s Kiki?
I miss Kiki’s posts! They make every day that much better. Hope to see you blogging soon xo