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.