Well That Was Easy

Yesterday, I posted about building a computer.  When I got home from work, I went HAM on the project and guess what? I'm done!  Spent a few hours building the rig (which is funny, because I just saw a 12 year old kid on Youtube assemble a computer in like 9 minutes or something like that).  Well, being a first timer, it took me a while. 

Step One - Put the processor and RAM on the motherboard, then install the little heatsink fan that comes with the processor, thanks Intel.  Well, not too much thanks, I bought your stock in high school, it shot up, then fell like crazy and never really came back. 

Step Two - Put the power supply into the case

Step Three - Install SSD hard drive into the case

Step Four - Mount the motherboard

Step Five - Connect all the thingamajiggies.  This took a while because the instruction's are a bit vague, but I figured it out.

Then I'm pretty much done with the assembly.  Next step was to install Mac OS X onto the computer, starts getting trickier here and I won't get into all the details (unless you want me to). I was actually shooting a video the whole time with my camera.  Being the first time doing that, I had a lot of mistakes.  I said the word "basically" a LOT, didn't zoom in and out enough (so at times, my beautiful face is cut-off in the video), I don't know.  I think I was a little nervous.  I'll work on the video and potentially post it if it's good.  If not, I'll just send you links to that 12 year old doing it.  Last thing - I can't use a wireless mouse when I'm setting up the operating system, as it's not recognizable yet.  So I needed a wired keyboard.  Don't have one of those, but I was too eager to finish.  I considered trying to steal one from the business center in my building, but thought that would be weird. 

So I drove to my office (5 minutes away), went upstairs, and the cleaning lady was vacuuming. Keep in mind this it is midnight.  I walk closer (trying to move a lot so she sees me), then I'm a few feet from her, and she sees me, and screams and jumps in the air.  I felt so bad, she was freaking out!  These schnozberries taste like schnozberries.  I apologized about 10 times, then we both laughed (my laugh was more of an awkward laugh at first, I thought she might shank me, but then it was cool), then I grabbed my keyboard and got the fuzz out of there.  Of course I stopped at McDonald's for a strawberry milkshake, why wouldn't I?  They are open 24 hours a day for a reason.  Anyway, so after many hours, I'm happy to say I've koreanvented my computer skills.  Here are some pictures. All the people on the Tony Mac website have cool names for their computers once they are done.  I have come up with: Laser, The Harlem Time Machine, KillaCam's Krazy Komputer (but that could be abbreviated to KKK, which is NOT cool), DipsetDoohickey, HystEricalHack, or Koreanvention.  Leave a comment to add another suggestion, because for now, it's name is Jerome.