I live on my computer. It's not just my gateway to Facebook, it's my bread and butter. I work from home and I use it everyday. Additionally, I hold a volunteer position with our local Moms Club chapter and I make the monthly newsletter for the group. Not being able to use my computer is an issue.
Unfortunately, at the moment anything more taxing than using Safari just crashes the whole dang thing. I get the rainbow wheel of death and the whole system just goes to shit. Not awesome. That really limits my ability to work (and consequently earn money) as well as producing the club's newsletter.
Even better is that the damn thing decided to die right before the end of the month, which is my busiest time at work and when I produce the newsletter. Fantastic.
I've been scouring the internet for advice and I've found out a couple of things: 1.) If you type in Pages (the name of the word processor on a Mac), you get a whole bunch of junk that is not related. Also, Pages itself does not have a usable help section. Annoying! 2.) It turns out that having a slow Mac is not an uncommon problem, but either I'm not fluent in geek or they made these things REALLY F-ING HARD TO FIX. I'll go with the latter, though it's probably a touch of the former as well.
I keep searching and hopelessly grasping at straws. Half of the "fixes" address only one of the many many problems I am having. You see, my computer is slow, Pages won't open, existing newsletters appear to only have 2 pages versus the 18 that actually exist, NOTHING WILL CLOSE, my Apple mail is just a giant shit-show and I keep getting this super annoying script error message in Firefox that probably has nothing to do with anything other than the fact that my computer hates me. Oh, and don't even try to get into the Applications folder on the hard drive. Actually, don't even try to open the hard drive in general.
After Googling myself crazy, I've determined the problem is either the hard drive, the battery, a corrupt file somewhere along the line, a plug-in, some other bit of hardware not previously listed, the memory or possibly Pages itself. I may also need to uninstall and reinstall Firefox.
Well hell, that doesn't really narrow it down at all.
Before you throw your nose up in the air and say I should just bring it to an Apple store to see a genius, let me point out that it's no longer under warranty. I'm rocking a Macbook Pro circa 2008 that was handed down from my husband. The hard drive was upgraded in 2011. It has also had the ram upgraded to the maximum amount. My other issue is that I don't live anywhere near an Apple store. They like to hide those things in cities and I have this extreme phobia of driving in cities with small children and electronics while New Englanders do death circles around me. It's just a bad idea. Speaking of cities and New Englanders, what the heck is with the roads being exactly wide enough for 1/2 a Prius around here? I drive an SUV. A big SUV. I don't fit on these dainty little streets and I refuse to downgrade to anything small enough to cause instant death when someone inevitably slams into me. Anyway, the Geeks at the bar always do the same thing, they turn the computer on while they attempt to look cool, try the most simple thing that anyone with access to Google has already tried, plug some little doodad into it, say "hmm..." then tell you they will have to do something a little more advanced that will take a while. Thanks a-hole, I figured it was something "a little more advanced" than what I could find with a Google search. Then they always want you to leave the computer with them and come back to pick it up later like getting there once wasn't quite enough fun. Meanwhile, the kids are screeching in the background because they want the newest iPad that's on display and convenient at their height and you're like yeah right, I'll just drop $500+ on something made of glass that requires a blessing from the Pope, a handle of whiskey and a PHD from MIT to fix. No thanks!
Seriously Apple, when your crap doesn't work, I don't want to look at new products. I'm not one to say oh golly gee, that last one was so damn fun I think I'll buy another. No, I'm like anything with an Apple logo on it better not be within my site or death rays will shoot out of my eyeballs as I go ballistic and curse every single one of the color-coordinated self-proclaimed geeks that are probably only working at Apple to get a discount on the latest iPhone.
AHHH! I hate computer problems!!!!
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