Googliness

So I had to go see one of those geniuses the other day. My beloved Macbook was running a little slow. Something I wasn’t used to anymore since abandoning Windows, so I needed help. Some elaborate scans later a few apparent problems with my drive and permissions were resolved. Fingers crossed it’ll make a difference as neither me nor my bank account are ready yet to say goodbye to my Macinvestment Pro. While I understand that “performance issues” are about as vague of a description I can give to a genius, he did offer some very insightful tips. Upgrading the hard drive, adding some fresh memory. Since I’m pretty tech-savvy he even explained where I could buy the parts needed for cheap(er) and install them myself. Neither himself or the store he works for would make any money off that deal, and I was certainly impressed with the fact he was more interested in helping his customers than making (more) money off them. Well done.

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