Coma

Erin and Tres have for some time both been trying to convince me to download the iPhone SDK, and in a moment of free time this Saturday I acquiesced. Unfortunately OSX 10.5.5 (Leopard) is required for the SDK to run. So, imagining an easy transition, I purchased the Leopard family pack (allowing up to five licenses, so Erin can update her MacBook). And indeed, Erin's laptop was upgraded within an hour, and running quite smoothly.

The same could not be said of my inherited 6-year-old G4 MacPro. After the first install failed because the installer app literally could not find the graphical icon to represent my removable hard drive, I started to worry. After two days of failed installs, hard drive corruptions, hard resets, complete hard drive wipes, and, at one point, an install of Leopard that displayed the dock but would not open any applications (even the top status bar), I have given up. Perhaps I need a new hard drive (most probable) or my RAM is bad (I hope not), but something is not compatible. My computer remains in stasis, until I can get more information.

Luckily all of my data is on an external hard drive. Something tells me, though, that getting this all up and running isn't going to be cheap.