OK, quick story about my PowerBook. I just want to get this off my chest. 
My free Tiger-night PowerBook has been completely AWESOME. I love it. It's $2000 of computing power for free. It hasn't let me down. EVER.
Until last week(ish)...
*insert horror movie music here*
It froze!!
No biggie, I did a force-shut down, and restarted it.
When I tried to restart it, I got to the Grey Apple screen. Grey spinning pinwheel.
Fifteen minutes of not starting.
Of course, I immediately called Apple Care, and **guess what!** They aren't open at 11 at night, hahaha.
*cue freaking out*
I booted from CD. It took an hour to finally get it booted up again. I ran the Hardware test, and it said it was all good.
Then, 4 days later, my PowerBook slows down to molasses. FREAKING MOLASSES! So, I restart, in case some of the widgets accidentally were eating memory, yada yada yada, you know how it goes.
then AYE! It does the grey spinny apple screen again.
*cue freaking out* "Hey, applecare STILL isn't open at 11 at night..."
I tried to start it from the Hardware test, like I did last time, and I couldn't!
So I got the fun task of doing an archive and install of 10.3 (Tiger was a drop-in CPU thingy disk).
I get everything to an external HD (just in time, methinks!) overnight (30 gigs takes FOREVER, even over FW!)
And I head to the Apple store today to:
#1 Bug the genius bar about why my PowerBook hates me.
and
#2 Sweet, sweet garageband presentation from Francis Preve. <-- WAS AWESOME!
I ask Aaron (My most favorite genius in the world), he boots from FW HD and GUESS WHAT!
I actually DO have a failing HD, I wasn't going mad.
Even though my HD is failing, and I'll be without my PowerBook for a few days, I still have love for Apple. I know that bad HDs happen. It's a fact of life.
But I love that I didn't have to hang on the phone with Apple for 3 hours to diagnose it, that I could just walk on into the Apple store and have someone do it in person for me.
Doing that at Best Buy/Circuit City/Compusa would cost $50 and 6 weeks, JUST for a diagnosis.
At Apple store, it was free, took two minutes (ignore the half hour-wait for the genius bar.. I entertained myself on a dual 2.7 with the 30 inch display. DROOL.), and they got it done, and waiting for the new HD (which they get to order on monday. ).
I have LOVE for Apple. They rock. Such good service. Much love.
And at the Garageband thing, I got a free book! Powertools for Garageband, by Francis Preve. Got it autographed, too.
Sorry, I just wanted to post my love for Apple. There are threads all the time " I'm done with Apple! My logic board was busted!" when it's not purposefully bad, it's just an accident of manufacturing.
If there was a bad part, and the company told you that you were SOL, that would be something to yell about, but Apple stands by their products. $367.81 of repairs for FREE.
(warranties ROCK!!)
OK, sorry. I'll stop my Apple-worship now. Hehe.
My free Tiger-night PowerBook has been completely AWESOME. I love it. It's $2000 of computing power for free. It hasn't let me down. EVER.
Until last week(ish)...
*insert horror movie music here*
It froze!!
No biggie, I did a force-shut down, and restarted it.
When I tried to restart it, I got to the Grey Apple screen. Grey spinning pinwheel.
Fifteen minutes of not starting.
Of course, I immediately called Apple Care, and **guess what!** They aren't open at 11 at night, hahaha.
*cue freaking out*
I booted from CD. It took an hour to finally get it booted up again. I ran the Hardware test, and it said it was all good.
Then, 4 days later, my PowerBook slows down to molasses. FREAKING MOLASSES! So, I restart, in case some of the widgets accidentally were eating memory, yada yada yada, you know how it goes.
then AYE! It does the grey spinny apple screen again.
*cue freaking out* "Hey, applecare STILL isn't open at 11 at night..."
I tried to start it from the Hardware test, like I did last time, and I couldn't!
So I got the fun task of doing an archive and install of 10.3 (Tiger was a drop-in CPU thingy disk).
I get everything to an external HD (just in time, methinks!) overnight (30 gigs takes FOREVER, even over FW!)
And I head to the Apple store today to:
#1 Bug the genius bar about why my PowerBook hates me.
and
#2 Sweet, sweet garageband presentation from Francis Preve. <-- WAS AWESOME!
I ask Aaron (My most favorite genius in the world), he boots from FW HD and GUESS WHAT!
I actually DO have a failing HD, I wasn't going mad.
Even though my HD is failing, and I'll be without my PowerBook for a few days, I still have love for Apple. I know that bad HDs happen. It's a fact of life.
But I love that I didn't have to hang on the phone with Apple for 3 hours to diagnose it, that I could just walk on into the Apple store and have someone do it in person for me.
Doing that at Best Buy/Circuit City/Compusa would cost $50 and 6 weeks, JUST for a diagnosis.
At Apple store, it was free, took two minutes (ignore the half hour-wait for the genius bar.. I entertained myself on a dual 2.7 with the 30 inch display. DROOL.), and they got it done, and waiting for the new HD (which they get to order on monday.
).I have LOVE for Apple. They rock. Such good service. Much love.
And at the Garageband thing, I got a free book! Powertools for Garageband, by Francis Preve. Got it autographed, too.
Sorry, I just wanted to post my love for Apple. There are threads all the time " I'm done with Apple! My logic board was busted!" when it's not purposefully bad, it's just an accident of manufacturing.
If there was a bad part, and the company told you that you were SOL, that would be something to yell about, but Apple stands by their products. $367.81 of repairs for FREE.
(warranties ROCK!!)
OK, sorry. I'll stop my Apple-worship now. Hehe.
