They did say a couple of days in the blog post. I am also hoping for a miraculously faster result. Reconstructing a development system can be an arduous task depending on where the hardware failure occurred.
Gods no... backups, or do you have to manually rebuild your development tree and configuration management?
Hopefully you got an SSD for a replacement drive.... eliminate those pesky moving parts to prolong the life of the system.
Ouch. I just had to replace the power supply in my iMac, but before I figured out that's what was causing the sudden unexplained power-offs I tried to reinstall the OS and, of course, it shut down halfway through the process and fried my Fusion drive. Luckily the Apple Store was able to fix it and double-luckily I had a day-old Time Machine backup to go to... ANYWAY.... I feel your pain.
Anyway, lesson here is don't use Apple. Don't encourage others to use Apple by feeding their significantly erroneous life choice with interesting games. In fact do the complete opposite and intentionally develop bad Mac builds of otherwise interesting games to encourage misguided individuals to re-evaluate their platform of choice and find something that doesn't involve feeding the Apple cultural monster.
Nicholas, I want you to do me a favor. Go home this weekend. In case you were going to try and get the OS X version out, let it wait until Monday. You work too hard.
Got the Mac back from the shop this morning, but now we have to get it set up and working again. This could take a bit.
Yeah, if they're loading from a time machine backup (which is ostensibly the easiest way) it can still take 24 hours for a 1 TB drive...
