iMac Core2Duo
A popular trend on the Internet seems to involve a log of events involving a specific computer. I kept a vague log of events with my previous computer, but this time 'round I'm going to keep a more specific log, and it's going to be on my website.
To start off, my specific computer is an iMac Core2Duo, "Late 2006" model. It hasa 17" screen, a 2.16GHz Intel Core2Duo processor, 2048 megabytes of memory, and a 160 Gigabyte hard disc, along with the standard iMac trimmings, such as a SuperDrive, Airport/Bluetooth, and a remote.
The machine was purchased in December 2006, which (for the record) was during my Freshman year at NAU.
February 2007
Apple sells the iMac as being capable of running Microsoft Windows XP using a technology they call BootCamp, it basically causes the EFI firmware to emulate a BIOS, so Windows Xp can run. After installing XP, Bootcamp is supposed to install drivers.
Unfortunately, my iMac didn't get very far at all and I had to bring it into the NAU bookstore, where after two weeks, I found out they'd replaced the motherboard and hard disc drive, both of which had been rendered totally useless by a problem in the way Bootcamp was being handled. I lost very little data, but I gained a valuable lesson in data backup, that I wouldn't really put into action until later on.
July 2007
This is when I start to actually backup and organize my data properly. my iMac has given me an odd error, S.M.A.R.T. Failure, as per Disk Utility. I haven't lost any data, but I have used a great utility called SuperDuper to move everything onto my 200gig external hard disc. I called Apple and they will be sending somebody here to replace the internal hard disc.
After this debacle, I will be making weekly bootable backups of my hard disc to the external 200gig drive, and I'll be quicker to archive data to DVDs, as opposed to simply letting it sit on the 200gig drive.
A week after calling, a technician came and installed the new drive. The iMac is an unnecessarily complicated machine inside. I did luckily get everything restored properly.
