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I don’t know what’s up. Here’s a list of things that are wrong with my computer at the time of writing:

• Photo Booth
• I know that the camera works, since I tried using it with comic life, and I am able to take pictures. It’s just that there’s something wrong with either Photo Booth itself… or something else in the hardware.
• iTunes
• 1) I think might have caused this one, but at one point, my library died, killing about half of my mp3’s. Luckily, I had an older backup to revert to… but man, was it a painful experience
• 2) Some mp3s are missing in the library, while they’re still in the iTunes Library folder. I have no clue what could be causing this.
• iPhoto
• What the FREAK is going on. Thumbnails are not corresponding to the right photos… even though the correct photos exist in the iPhoto folder. I’m completely unsure of what’s going on with this one. I rebuilt the library and everything, even ran repair permissions.
• EFI Firmware Update
• Still not working… I tried resetting the PRAM (P + R + command + option), as well as resetting the computer by pressing the power button after the battery was removed… removed all USB/Firewire attachments… blah blah blah. This isn’t as important, because I don’t have the “wake from sleep” issues.
• “Scratchy” Screen
• I thought it had to do with my external LCD, because the first time it happened, it was on my external one. And then I saw it happening on my MacBook’s LCD.
• It’s one line of pixels… or a couple lines, and not a complete horizontal line, that is just noise from what was there previously. I thought it was a Firefox issue, but man, it’s happening in Finder and every where. It’s on an application basis, because the noise only occurs within a window of an application, and not across the entire screen.
• Overall Unstableness
• Things are slower… and if enough applications are up and running, I beachball and crash OR I have a moving mouse cursor, but unable to force quit or access any of the windows.
• Possible cause: Memory overflow somewhere. I’ve noticed that my computer is in dire need of more memory… even though I maxed it out at the 2GB.

Therefore, I’m going to go home and backup EVERYTHING again… this is NOT going to be a fun week. I need to start researching for work, as well as keep on going with diving into my side project. Plus, I need to get this site up and running… but without a computer, it’s going to be a pain in the neck.

Is it time for just a completely new computer? Should I just go and get a 17″ MBP?