15 Mar 2009, Posted by Cat in News, 32 Comments. Tagged writing
oh noes!
BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!!
Thanking various deities right now that I was smart enough to back everything the fuck up the moment I noticed the delete key wasn’t functioning this morning. I think my $700 second hand Mac laptop is cactus.
32 Comments
March 14, 2009 11:35 pm
brockulfsen
Mac Laptops are nice toys
They are for people who can afford to replace them every six months when the new model comes out. They are fragile, and the $500 extended warrantees are worthless.
I really like mine, but I cannot afford to give Apple $2k every year. I got 3 years out of a HP at the end of which is was mechanically and electronically sound, just needed a new battery and more RAM and it would still be OK if slow.
15 months in my MacBook looks like it has been in combat, and my GF’s has been demoted to desktop with an external keyboard. Both got replacement mainboards in the last year, one got a HDD, neither’s DVD drive has ever successfully burnt a DVD. Apply refuse to do a second mainboard replacement on either under warrantee, despite the new ones having the substantially the same faults as the old. Service agents want to bill us for parts that work perfectly because the diagnostics say they are not working, and claim that the DVD drives are fine. Argh!…
We have the white Mac Books from about 18 months ago, the ases and keyboard decks as cracked, chipped and crazed.
March 14 2009 23:37 pm
Cat @
Re: Mac Laptops are nice toys
I would rather gnaw my own arms off than go back to a pc
March 15, 2009 1:05 am
karenmiller
Have to say I’ve never had any trouble with Mac performance, or with service when it’s been needed. I love my Macs to bits. Maybe yours is saveable, Cat. You never know. And yesterday was heaps of fun.
March 15 2009 01:10 am
Cat @
yeah, look, it might even be fixable.
ditto on lunch!
March 15, 2009 1:10 am
tillianion
You see, this would never happen with a Dell… *runs and hides*
March 15 2009 01:12 am
Cat @
ahem. My old dell laptop, purchased for Clarion in 2004, died in the arse last year. And it was a steaming sack of shit from the word go!
March 15, 2009 7:05 am
murasaki_1966
Go back to pen/typewriter and paper. No batteries, no need for fancy ink cartridges, and best of all, won’t die in the middle of the big important bit.
March 15 2009 07:30 am
Cat @
what an idiotic suggestion
March 16, 2009 12:18 pm
robynv
My current MacBook Pro is beautiful – shiny (er, actually, ‘matt’ I guess) brushed metal and it’s about 18 months old. Admittedly it stays beautiful because of the plastic cover my husband bought for it (he loves giving me geeky presents). I’ve never had any trouble with it except for needing a new battery, which I waited too long to organise. (If I’d got one when it first died it would have been still just under warranty).
The iBook I had before that also never gave me any trouble. I had it over 3 years and only replaced it because I wanted a bigger screen (and because I married a geeky guy who kept hassling me to upgrade). It obviously loved me too, because it only fell over when I gave it to my mum when I bought the new shiny machine. It missed me so much it wouldn’t boot up any more. How could I have not realised that computers have feelings too?
I write everything on the computer these days. The only time I don’t is if I’m really struggling with something, then I get started with pen and paper until I’m in the flow, then type it up and keep going.
The other awesome thing about Macs is Scrivener. I only found it a week ago and bought it after only 10 minutes into my trial download. I am in love …
March 16 2009 19:33 pm
Cat @
I'm a Scrivener convert too. Paid up 2 hours into the free trial -- I guess I'm a bit more of a cheaparse than you!
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