I HATE APPLE

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.

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.

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.

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.

[1] unless stet, who is currently looking after it, has broken it. or one of our mutual friends has been sick on it. mate?

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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?!

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.

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.

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.

Alison Hannigan's computer never died.

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.

GF: A bit of sick on the power transformer, that's all. You'll wipe that off easy, with a cloth.

Aww, Jon, did they mock you? Did they not let you pose as a genius and hit on coked up NU students?

I was looking at the bluetooth keyboard and some employee came up to me and he very pointedly looked about 8 inches to the left of my eyes while we were talking. Also, not very helpful about battery life in BT devices. I ended up getting the wired keyboard and a mighty mouse as I love the mighty mouse so.

I got hit on my a girl in the checkout line who liked my bag, which I had just bought a new cell phone holder for at the bike shop on 6th Ave and Canal though. She was cute.

http://www.chromebags.com/metropolis_olive.jpg

never buy luggage of any sort without a moneyback/replacement guarantee

The funny thing about this is that I seem to be the only person who actually let "geniuses" take my computer who got it back with files fully intact, non-wiped. Which pissed me off cos I was at that fucking Apple store for like 5 hours doing the back up on spot and I actually didn't care that much about "losing" data that was mostly easily re-gettable anyway (I would've only lost a handful of photos from my digicam that I didn't have on hard disc from my old computer, and term papers from previous semesters that I still had hard copies of anyway). The genius basically refused to send my computer into the shop without me purchasing a $200 hard drive and backing up all my "important" data, myself, in front of everyone in the damn store. Son of a bitch.

There is something liberating about a clean drive though. Like the first stage of a break-up when you feel free before you get lonely and wonder what did I do?

Doesn't mean anything right now (except perhaps to me, TOMBOT, JW, and Ed), but still interesting.

this is interesting because it means (to me) that apple has finally got to the point where they feel confident enough that we (the users) aren't going to notice the cpu load of handling everything as part of a rel db (well obviously since we all play along with iTunes already).

I'm slightly more interested in rumors about the inclusion of a Torrent client as part and parcel of 10.5.