Suzanne O’Connor’s Bargains LA

Our Mac Died!

Just as luck would have it, my Mac Mini died on July 4th. A quick trip to The Apple store (yep they were open the 4th) to have them take a look at it confirmed our predicament.

After a day of fireworks and gorging ourselves on hot dogs and spareribs we set out on the 5th to replace the computer with another Mac Mini ($699) instead of fixing it (a $500 repair). We stuck with a Mac simply because of my extreme web surfing. I am all over the web. It’s much more difficult to pick up a virus using a Mac than a PC.

I love the help at the Apple stores. Though it appeared to be swamped and extremely busy, we were helped very quickly. Every salesman here has an I Phone and CC scanner. So you just pay for your purchase from them. No waiting in line. We were in and out of the Apple store in under 15 minutes. Sweet!

We thought it would take 1-2 days to get the new computer up and running.  What a happy surprise it took less than a few hours. Apples Time Machine automatically saved everything on my old Mac: all programs, documents, bookmarks, photos, desktop… everything and it quickly reloaded that info to my new computer. Badda bing!

Apples Time Machine rocks! We brought the computer home at 1pm and had it up and running by 3pm… super fast, super easy. Very little down time.