in 2009 I bought a new 13-inch MacBook Pro which was sold to the Mac User group to use with the book lending library. I mostly used it while connected to power so didn't care about the battery-sapping aspects of running a 7200 rpm drive in it, it was much faster than with the 5400 rpm unit it shipped with.
I was using it yesterday at the MUG's monthly meeting and when packing it away observed that for some reason its power supply had grown enormously. No way was it that big when I owned it. I recall it being a square configuration 60 watt unit.
But the one that was in use with it was a rectangular unit, a standard Apple device, not a 3rd-party one. The Magsafe cable sprouted from the long side of the rectangle. Checking online revealed it to be an 85 watt unit from a 15 or 17-inch MacBook Pro.
Dunno why it's using such a thing, but I guess it shows that Apple's chargers are smart ones & won't deliver more current than the machine can handle.
Car racing on the telly on a wee while. The annual Bathurst Touring Car 1000 km race. The TV network that televises it has announce the coverage will start at 7:30 am (race start is usually 10:30) and run for 603 minutes. Dunno where they get the mumbers from.
@matigo Theoretically, yes, Sno Leo could go on it, that's the OS it shipped with. But my 2011 MBP also shipped with it and now will not accept Sno Leo even on a partition or external drive.
@matigo The heaviest work it's planned to do with it is cropping & renaming pictures & splitting PDFs. At least she understands it's no powerhouse.
Just been woken up with a violent regurgitation episode. Gastric reflux rides again, time for the antacids that work. Will certainly need two, may have to chew four of the bugggers.
It's pushing 9pm, just thinking over what I've eaten today. Three cups of tea, a meat & vegetable pastie (left ½ the pastry), a handful of hot peppermints to stay awake while driving, a 750 ml bottle of strong iced coffee and a 700 ml can of energy drink. I feel I should be hungrier than I feel, if you catch my drift.
Read a few books by an author with the interesting name of Hunter Goforth. Sounds more like an instruction than a name. So I checked the internet to try to find more. Turns out he's better known in the real world as Brad or Bradley Goforth but his true first name is Hunter.
Weird problem with Dropbox auto upload of photos. Client has a 32 GB SD card with only 1 GB used. His Dropbox allocation is the basic 2 GB. With only a single PDF occupying Dropbox, when he inserts the SD card Dropbox claims there's no more space. In the end I persuaded him just to use Photos app on his Mac.
Lying on my side in bed with the cat perched partly on my hip and also on the sore lumbar area of my back. Sort of like a furry hot water bottle with claws.