“CPU Halted”

Today is the day when I finally had my very first significant trouble with my office MacBook Pro in almost a decade.

I’m still having it right now. The problem is not that severe, but it required a system recovery.

The system is recovering, and I’m writing this note because I have nothing else better to do.

Seriously. Apple made the process that straightforward and boring as if it does not care about our human feelings. Reboot in recovery mode, click here and here, wait for about an hour, and that’s it. Where is our challenge?! Our struggle?! Our sense of achievement and satisfaction?! Apple has robbed our emotions.

I remember a time when recover a Microsoft Windows system meant a lot of “excitement”.

You have to recall installed hardware and search for those bloody device drivers thru your disks or all over the Internet because Windows Update was mostly useless. And you have to pray a hardware vendor is still out there providing necessary drivers, in case you lost a disk.

Once you finished with device drivers, you have to reinstall all that useful software you have installed from various sources. And reconfigure. Or restore from a backup, if you have happened to have one.

See, there were plenty activities, and things could go south at any stage. It was an adventure which gave you an adrenaline rush. Plus it gave you a tiny bit of happiness after successful restoration.

I’m kidding, of course. It is nice to have a recovery process that does not need you to dance around with a tambourine. Writing silly notes like this or catching up on some reading while waiting is much more fun.

P.S. System restored, business as usual.