Last Raspy Breaths of a Dying iMac

Yes, the iMac is sick. Very sick. It might be dying. We think it is dying. A very slow and painful death process it has been for all three of us. The iMac. David. Me. There are few things we know for certain, but we will be setting up a new category for the costs of serious repair or replacement starting in October’s budget.

Now, I’m not an expert on this whole computer thing, but when the iMac sits there with a white screen, a grey apple, no spinning thingy for 50 minutes without booting up, I know Something Very Bad is taking place. Oh, the little apple with no spinny thing. So sad.

David has communicated that it has something to do with the iMac and its ability to access its internal hard drive because none of the software will run from the internal hard drive but the software on the external hardware will run, albeit very slowly, but better than Not At All. Right now it is on and sort-of running. We don’t have any apps open on it, but it is at least not showing us the dreaded blank face of a white screen with a grey apple. Dave pressed a secret button that I do not know about to force it to start. Since everything David has already done to the thing for the previous two crashes, we are pretty sure it is not the software unless we keep installing the same messed up software over and over… but you’ll have to ask him what all he has done to the thing if you want to know.

I am not a Mac Smarty Pants. I just use the thing because it is what we have. If you want to communicate directly with David about this issue, I am sure he will be glad to hear from any Mac Smarty Pants out there who might have a clue past the previous two crashes we have lived through. His co-worker’s iBook also died today. It has been a hard week on some macs very close to our hearts. Thank God for David’s school iBook. It is sustaining our onlineness for the time being. To reach David, you can either leave a comment or email him at satchmo890 at gmail dot com with iMac somewhere in the subject line.