It was so traumatic I can't even remember what day it was. I think it was last Sunday, October 16, 2021. I went upstairs to use my iMac and when I woke it up all I got were a bunch of blue vertical bars. Crap! I rebooted about 5 times and whacked it a bunch in between and although the pattern of blue bars varied slightly, it was still just blue bars.
Damn! I bought the 27" iMac in late 2013. I wrote about its purchase in a
blog on the 30th anniversary of the Mac, where I detailed the purchase of all the Macs I've had over the years. I've generally gotten a new mac every seven years and so I was due for a new one. The first mac was obsolete the day I got it. But as the years went by, the macs maintained some utility until seven years had gone by and my wife was willing to let me buy another one. The latest 27" iMac still had a lot of life in it and I had decided to push it to eight years. The major reason that I wanted to wait a bit longer was that Apple has transitioned to a new line of processors based on their own design and is leaving the Intel chips behind. Apple has transitioned most of their computers over to the new M1 chip, including their portables and the smaller desktop. The only one remaining is the replacement for the 27" desktop. It should make an appearance in the spring of 2022. Unfortunately, my old machine didn't last until its replacement showed up. So in the meantime, I'm using my wife's old 2012 MacBook Pro and trying to figure out how to get a bigger replacement until the New M1 (or M1 max or M2 or whatever they call it) big iMacs show up. As you can see in the picture, there's a lot less real estate in a laptop compared to a big desktop.
