I’m writing this post on a dying macbook and thus is the subject of the post. I bought this book a few years back. It is a mid 2012 model and, by all accounts, it ought to already be dead. Still, I’ve used it for some time and taken good care of it. The book is a good system that only now is starting to show major lag. The problem, as I diagnose it, is the hard drive. This old boy is probably not running a ssd. It is a TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF, which a brief search indicates as a 2.5 inch SATA drive with 5400 RPM… running Catalina. This is why this computer doesn’t get out much.
I used to be a step behind in tech. The reasons were clear: I didn’t have cutting edge money or even need. Now I am so far behind that everything I use feels obsolete. I listen to people on games talking about frame rate and I’m just happy I can actually play the dang game at all. So, one of the things on my 2023 list is to get back to an understanding of tech where what I write is still reflective of an understanding of the speed of the tech curve. I’m not there yet, obviously. First I gotta grab a Solid State Drive.