re: #14 Charles Johnson

This morning I found a replacement for my old Mac Pro on eBay for about $400, with 32G RAM and a 2TB hard drive.

I’m pretty sure the internal drives are still OK, although I haven’t opened it up yet. So I should be able to just swap the drives into the new (old) computer and be as good as new.

My Macbook Pro is apparently as good as dead - it will start, but shuts down after several minutes (if I’m lucky.)
So I am using a borrowed laptop, which of course had zero of my stuff. I am nowhere near being able to afford replacing my Macbook Pro. I ordered a Mac mini, should get to me by Wednesday. It also will probably have none of my stuff on it.
My wife’s PC laptop died recently, and I was able to get the HDD and the SSD out of it, and they were fine. My Macbook, however, doesn’t have a drive per se - the storage is distributed throughout the computer on many little flash modules. If I can’t get it to work in target mode, I got some rebuilding to do…Super fun!