My Apple laptop is rotten to the core, again
It seems my Apple TiBook is completely hosed again. This time, it’s (surprise)… more hardware issues. This will be the third time I’m sending it back (although I should’ve sent it back a few other times too — I’ve just been living with a few issues, as I use the thing a good bit).
They’re going to be replacing it part by part, yet again. Did that work last time? Nope. Will it work this time? We’ll see. It’ll take a short while to ship off, get fixed, and be returned.
For some odd reason, my extended AppleCare support wasn’t in their computers, so I had to wait on the phone for a bit. Thankfully, it was actually very responsive service — I was actually amazed at how fast and friendly the tech support was on the phone. I did have to wait a couple of extra days as a result, however, as I have been busy with work all this week (but what’s new? *smile*).
The TiBook is getting shipped off (again) sometime tomorrow, as soon as I drop it off at the local Apple Store.
In the mean time, a new FireWire PCMCIA card (which I have to buy), my FireWire hard drive (with the backups of stuff), my IBM ThinkPad (running Linux), and the the nice, new HFS+ driver for Linux should all come in handy.