David's Blog

I recently had a problem with my Mac Mini. The problem most likely came from the Bootcamp partition I made, I wanted to install Windows 7 but the copy I had purchased was an upgrade, not the full OS. So I left the partition blank.

When I restarted my Mac, It went into a blank screen and asked for a boot drive followed by a keystroke.
So my machine would not boot the OS from startup and did not recognize my keyboard.

I called apple care and quickly found out I knew as much, if not more, than them. I thought I reserved a time at the ‘local’ Apple store (60miles away) and headed over as soon as possible.

When I arrived at the store, with a neatly packed Mac Mini and a case # I was told by an associate that they would not be able to help until tomorrow at the earliest. I was miffed.

I knew what needed to be done, so I asked for a monitor & keyboard, and announced that I would fix the computer myself.

I was very surprised my demands were met, immediately. The associate brought out a monitor and mac keyboard and I was able to load the OSX install disk and delete the delinquent partition within 15min.

Im not perfectly happy with my experience, but like any story, its the happy ending that matters.

I cant stress how much I love my Iphone, it has unlimited potential. Yet there is so much it can do, that it doesnt.
Of course Im the type of person who gets things done myself, so I decided to start creating my own iphone applications. It doesnt take long for me to pick up on a new programing language and I am sure I could put togeather an iApp in no time. There is a catch, I need a Mac Comp (w/OS X leopard) to run the SDK (app development program) for the Iphone Apps. This is not a small catch either.