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― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link
**okay - it's not looking - my mac has tied me up and is forcing me to do it's evil bidding - send help right away. I... oh no... no, I wasn't doing anyth... no please... NNNNOOOOOOOO
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link
(Yes, I'm an idiot for not backing up my files but I bought the external hard drive and couldn't get the computer running long enough to do so.)
Apple Tech is going to call me back. I hope they can make some amends.
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
I still have Apple care for another year so hopefully the new drive and board will last that long.
My moms told me I should take it to this little Mac stand on Route 1 and I checked they did accept Apple care and they are certified technicians and all that, but for some reason I thought it would be easier to take it in to the store. Next outage I'm gonna see what the mom and pop can do.
Thanks everyone for the advice and support. It's not as traumatic this time around, as it was the last time my computer broke. (It also helps that my mom has an identical computer in the basement for moments like this.)
The only thing I really got screwed on was some pictures I only had on the computer.
I think from now on I'm going back to analog.
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link
My theory with laptops is that you can't expect the hard drives to last more than two years and should expect them to go at any moment. A hard disk is a fundamentally stupid thing to put in something that moves around all the time. Optical drives will go quickly as well and in my opinion should be left out of portables. DC boards appear to be another flakey item (that's what finally went on my G3), I don't know what kills them.
I guess as much RAM as possible can help to extend hard disk life. Making sure your laptop always has good airflow must do something to help keep everything going.
I can't wait for solid state disks to be cheap enough and reliable enough to be regular fixtures in laptops.
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Do you have any theories about logic boards?
My mom has the first model of the white powerbook--and it's still fine after three years, but she uses it a lot less than I do.
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
I think what kills logic boards is the fact that as the laptop gets hanles, especially if you pick it up by one corner, it places a lot of stress on the board and on the solder that holds components to it. Eventually something cracks or becomes disconnected. I gues to reduce this, always pick up the laptop by both sides and always use on a firm surface, says the person using his work laptop balanced on his knee, lifted there by once corner.
I guess you shouldn't expect a laptop to last like a desktop. Plan on replacing them every couple of years or so.
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link
[1] unless stet, who is currently looking after it, has broken it. or one of our mutual friends has been sick on it. mate?
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link
I wish I had a Tekserve repair buddy. *sigh* I picture sort of Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront type?
But on TV, they are always using their laptops on their beds! Oh maybe they stopped circa Buffy.
Maybe I should get a Mini next? I'm already got the Mini external drive.
But why is it portable if you are only supposed to move it around gingerly?!
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
buy bag from this web site. always use padded sleeve. do not fling. attempt to find some measure of happiness in this hypersexualized environment that shows every sign of worsening.
yeah, the bed thing is a big no-no, even APPLE says so in their literature! must be a hard surface.
i still am sort of in shock that they trashed your entire hard drive, that's just incredible.
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
other portable things:
http://www.calglass-pcc.com/catalog/glassware/stemware/images/308472.jpg
http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/detail/414538b.jpg
http://nosheep.net/wp-content/upload/random_kittens.jpg\
http://www.pediapak.com/images/baby-mother.gif
etc.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link
These are meant to be good cases.
Jon, there are no good sleves at the apple store. I only ever saw one good sleeve, with stiff impact resistant sides and I only saw it once and never again.
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Alison Hannigan's computer never died.
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link
The genius bar guy should have mentioned that up front. Every computer I've taken to the genius bar has come back restored to its "out of the box" state - wiped hard drive, etc.
Get a inexpensive HD from Best Buy and just back things up.
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link
GF: A bit of sick on the power transformer, that's all. You'll wipe that off easy, with a cloth.
― stet (stet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Aww, Jon, did they mock you? Did they not let you pose as a genius and hit on coked up NU students?
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 April 2006 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link