Bad: My trusty iBook started acting really screwy on Friday night.
Good: I regularly run back ups.
Bad: I hadn't backed up my photos recently, or my music.
Good: I had backed up everything else on Friday morning as part of regularly scheduled back up.
Bad: Husband and I realized on Saturday morning it was truly hosed.
Good: Husband volunteered to take it to the Apple store so I could go to spinning class.
Bad: Husband called from the Apple store. Beloved iBook is indeed quite ill. Logic board is dying, has to be replaced. Hard drive appears to be okay, but may need replacing as well.
Good: Husband takes existing backups and put all study notes and outlines on his laptop so I can study tomorrow as planned.
Bad: No longer have valid excuse not to study tomorrow.
Good: iBook still boots as a drive and we have Firewire. We successfully copy my entire hard drive to a friend's computer.
Bad: Wah! I don't want to deal with this now! Wah!
Good: Have AppleCare. Will take three days to fix and is fully covered.
Bad: Wah! Technology is annoying when it doesn't work perfectly.
Good: I could have lost everything. Instead we backed everything up, and I will get an overhauled iBook in a few days.
Good: Have saint for husband.
3 comments:
Sorry I haven't been able to visit your Journal but I have been pretty busy and as you know time goes by fast. You're been writting some nice and interesting items and Im glad Im able to come visit again. All is well with me and my son and and I'll be updating my Journal soon. I hope to return more often then I have.
Take care,
John G.
Ouch. As much as the hassle sucks, it does sound like you were lucky. Did you hear about the iBook recall a while back? It only affected a small batch of machines, but I think it was about logic board failure. If your iBook was on the list, they's replace everything free. But that's what's great about Applecare, right? I will never ever ever buy a laptop w/out extended warranty. I hope the repair is fast and complete. If you're lucky, they'll just send you a replacement machine -- an iBook G4!
John -- welcome back. Glad to hear you are doing well.
AmbImb -- Yep, this whole exercise is a lesson on how much to appreciate Macs. I've had Windows and Linux machines fail on me (hard drive/motherboard) and the fallout was much, much worse. AppleCare is a miracle and has already paid for itself. Last time a Windows machine failed on me, I was never able to recover.
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