Macs fucking suck. What was once a solid product has, over the past 10 years, steadily declined into a product line of over-priced fashion accessories, built to match that stupid fucking white belt you’re wearing.
Here’s a question: If these clunky, obtuse hunks of brain damaged marketing are now run on the same freaking processor as Windows, why pay 3x the cost to get the same machine? Because Macs never crash, right? What a fucking joke.
I have had more problems, glitches, hiccups and “known issues” with Mac than I’ve had with the whole suite of Dell Lattitude D630s (which, incidently, are the best laptops I’ve ever had the pleasure of using) at a place I work. These over-marketed toys for art school geeks trying to find new and uninteresting ways to spend their folks money aren’t worth the ink used to print “Made In California”.
With that said I’m forced to use a Mac for certain tasks in my job, hence my ever-enhancing fugue of rage with these lemur-treats.
My latest battle has been trying to get their natively installed “BootCamp” to work so I can run some much needed software that Mac doesn’t support. In order to do this I have to partition my hard drive to make room for the new OS and, of course, my little Mac can’t seem to manage this task without crashing. And guess what? This is another “known issue”.
Fortunately I came across a workable solution while hunting through the internet this afternoon. Hopefully it finds some of you helpful.
As an update…. this didn’t work either. Now I’m getting a message that reads:
“Partition failed with the error: No space left on the device”
Fuck Mac.
Dude bra you need to check out VMware Fusion.
I could definitely go that way, though I was hoping I might avoid having to pay the $80. But what worries me more than not being able to install XP on my laptop is that this inability to partition may be an indication of a larger problem with my hard drive. I’ve already had to have the lamp on my screen replaced and now I’m seeing what to me indicates some impending data crash on my hard drive. And I’ve only had this fucking laptop for 3 months.
Thanks Mac, you definitely live up to the boasting that you’re “Made in California”.
Agreed the Latitude DX30 line of laptops are fucking great. Had some flakiness with the 830 series - it’s big and more prone to breaking. Otherwise these are great laptops.