computer woes
Feb. 16th, 2009 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hafitalWow, it's like I invoked the name of Apple, or something.
The Apple store called. It'll cost $750 to fix it. :( Water did get into and affected several key components. I was a bit flustered when they called and should have asked what, exactly, was damaged, but I didn't. I got stuck on the cost, which is over my limit of $600, meaning, I'd decided that if it cost more than $600 to repair, I would opt for a new computer. But of course I'm still all undecided and uncertain about what to do. A new computer is tempting, but do I really need it? I have the money in savings, but you know, it's *savings* for a reason, and I might lose my job soon. But I'm not actually saving that much more money. And I did get a nice big tax return. And there's the fact that the computer might not really be the same ever again. The nice gentleman at the Genius Bar warned me that any replacement parts only have a 90 day warranty. The way he said it made me think he was implying they don't actually last that long (although why that would be, I don't know).
halp! Feel free to give other options.
[Poll #1350481]
One of the folks on the apple forums accepts old iBooks and he repairs them and donates them to schools, which is a nice thing, and if I'm gonna buy a new one, I might do that with the iBook, if I can figure out a way or a guarantee about the harddrive being wiped and reformatted.
It's amazing you know, since about October I've been thinking I was gonna lose this computer. There was just something in the air, I dunno. And just a couple of weeks ago I had brought to work because I needed to review DVDs for this claim I've been working on, and I accidently left it at work, drove all the way home, realized I'd left it at work, and drove all the way back in a panic and pretty much dead certain that someone would have stolen it before I got back there (we've had expensive tech items stolen from our department before), but it was still there. It was like a warning!
eta: sorry about the rambling incoherent grammar.
The Apple store called. It'll cost $750 to fix it. :( Water did get into and affected several key components. I was a bit flustered when they called and should have asked what, exactly, was damaged, but I didn't. I got stuck on the cost, which is over my limit of $600, meaning, I'd decided that if it cost more than $600 to repair, I would opt for a new computer. But of course I'm still all undecided and uncertain about what to do. A new computer is tempting, but do I really need it? I have the money in savings, but you know, it's *savings* for a reason, and I might lose my job soon. But I'm not actually saving that much more money. And I did get a nice big tax return. And there's the fact that the computer might not really be the same ever again. The nice gentleman at the Genius Bar warned me that any replacement parts only have a 90 day warranty. The way he said it made me think he was implying they don't actually last that long (although why that would be, I don't know).
halp! Feel free to give other options.
[Poll #1350481]
One of the folks on the apple forums accepts old iBooks and he repairs them and donates them to schools, which is a nice thing, and if I'm gonna buy a new one, I might do that with the iBook, if I can figure out a way or a guarantee about the harddrive being wiped and reformatted.
It's amazing you know, since about October I've been thinking I was gonna lose this computer. There was just something in the air, I dunno. And just a couple of weeks ago I had brought to work because I needed to review DVDs for this claim I've been working on, and I accidently left it at work, drove all the way home, realized I'd left it at work, and drove all the way back in a panic and pretty much dead certain that someone would have stolen it before I got back there (we've had expensive tech items stolen from our department before), but it was still there. It was like a warning!
eta: sorry about the rambling incoherent grammar.
