UPGRADE!

Last night I upgraded my OS on my little white macbook from Tiger to Leopard and let's just say it was an adventure.

I was extremely ecstatic to be upgrading my computer, and before my birthday, but it took so long to do! When I say long, I mean it took two attempts with restarting, and then two hours to install afterwards. My computer huffed and puffed with its ventilation system and even made sure to express its hate for it through thundering the CD in the optical drive. If you saw my computer, you would think it was going through a major breakdown by the way it was acting.

In the end, the new software took up 5.6 GB of my hard drive, when I only have 8 GB total in free space. After this realization, I took quick action to clear out just about every video I have made along with unnecessary files over to my external hard drive. I guess you can call me a pack-rat because I keep just about every photo and email and video. It's only when it's true crap that I send it off to the trash and empty it immediately.

Now that I have had a bit of time to explore and play around, I am really loving this. I cannot tell you how much I love the look of the new dock without giving a horrible giggle, and even more, how nicely Mail is now looking. Now that I think of it, I should really check iChat and Photobooth, but I promised my friend do test it with her later tonight (some video chatting!!!) Leopard is amazing in it's change in look, promise for excitment and it pretty much brought it all. I must say that I am so happy to have it now, even if it is running a tad bit slow on my little macbook.

Might I explain the amazing capabilities of my mac? well, here's a mini screenshot of my harddrive's performance.

Yes, I did pay the lowest price and back in September of 2006. This poor thing. I love it with all of my heart, and sometimes I fear that I beat it up...I swear I don't. To make sure it looks new and shiny like its replacement battery, I cleaned it with some toothpaste which was simply amazing. I would fear toothpaste on my teeth was it not meant for the cleaning of teeth. It's so powerful and literally made my raggedy, brown macbook to a shiny and new white all over again.

and if you haven't already done it, install grabup to upload your screenshots immediately. it's amazing. (pro version coming soon!)