It might finally be time to say goodbye to my faithful MacBook Air laptop, which has been with me for over a decade. I saw an innocent-looking update notification last night, and when I opened it, it proved to be for an OS update to Catalina. God help me, I clicked "update" despite certain misgivings. The new OS downloaded just fine, but when it was time to install the OS, that's went things went tits-up. The computer froze about a third of the way into the installation, and after a reboot, the same thing happened. I then tried rebooting my computer in "safe mode," but I can't even reach safe mode. So, basically, I'm stuck.
As a result, I think I'm going to bite the bullet and get myself a new computer this weekend. I'm probably going to stick to Mac because I have several Mac products (Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, MS Office for Mac, etc.) that I can simply reinstall on a new machine.
My poor laptop has been through a lot over the years. It proved a lot tougher than my previous iMac desktop computer. That computer lasted only about four years before internal dust killed it. I think the time has finally come to drop a few thousand bucks on a new machine. I can only hope my new computer will last as long as my MacBook Air did. Meantime, at my apartment, I'll blog on my phone until the new computer arrives. Otherwise, I'll blog from my office computer, as I often do already.
More news later.
UPDATE: I just bought an iMac via Coupang. It arrives around June 2.
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