MacBook Pro BSOD SOB!!!

This is going to be one of those blog posts written in a moment of anger and frustration, meant to help me vent these emotions. By the way, Word 2004 (Mac) just underlined the word “blog” as a spelling error! LOL! Any way, as some of you may know, I recently needed something new to play with and ended up acquiring an Apple MacBook Pro 15.1”. You know, one of those babies, which according to Apple are inherently more fun and stable than the “Windoz PeeSeas”. Hardware-wise, this laptop is hardly a match for my beastly, custom-built, overclocked Athlon 64 desktop with 2 GB of CL2 RAM, 10,000 rpm Raptor hard drive and a GeForce 7800GT video card, yet I have it hooked up to my monitor and am using it as much as possible here at home, just to familiarize myself with OS-X up to level I am familiar with Windows XP and to a lesser extent, Ubuntu Linux. So, getting to the gist of this post… I am sitting here and multi-tasking in OS-X. You see, I have recently found a CD-R disk that I had misplaced for a while. The disk contains all of my early experiments with digital photography, going back to early 2001, when I bought my first digital camera, a measly 1.4 megapixel FujiFilm FinePix 1400. I was really happy to find this disk and promptly imported all the photos to my iPhoto library. At this point, I proceeded to going through all of the pictures, picking out the good ones, fixing them and queuing them for upload to Flickr, while at the same time chatting with fags on IRC, listening to my iTunes library and a little bit of web surfing. I got through 75% of the pictures, having queued dozens and dozens for Flickr upload, when this happens! I get the OS-X version of the infamous Windows BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death), locking me out of the OS and telling me to do a hardware reset. Just see the picture. Fucking great! Now, I have to redo going through hundreds of photos, picking out the good ones and queuing them for Flickr upload. Thanks for wasting my time, Apple. Fun and stable – for me to poop on! At least your version of the BSOD is more attractive –overlaid on top of the desktop and without the completely useless diagnostic info. The useless error report comes up after the forced reboot. The sad thing is that I can’t even remember the last time I lost a bunch of work due to a BSOD in XP. Kids, don’t believe the hype! Macs are still great and all, but don’t expect magic.