The screen on my laptop went all Dark & Mysterious tonight, so I'm on The Fernando's desktop. I can juuust make out the screen, so I'm updating my backup (it's just a week out of date, new music mostly), and tomorrow Fernando will take it to the Apple store--to the "
genius bar" which I didn't even know existed till a friend told me. I did the usual troubleshooting attempts, but decided not to waste my whole night over it. It's nice to have an Apple store right near us now, and turns out they're open til 9 each weekday! Oooh. I wasn't crazy about the dealer we used to go to. At least at the bar they'll do a little troubleshooting first.
From googling it appears this may be a
known issue by the manufacturer of this video piece, which they may or may not charge me for.
Anyway. My email responding will likely be a little spotty this week, so you've been warned.
My days this keyboard is stiff! It's always strange switching keyboards when you use your computer a lot.
Gonna check a few emails, post to my other blog, and then--as Bertie would say--retire to bed with an improving book.
3 comments:
I'll be curious to hear about your experience with the Apple store. I may go 'cause my water bottle leaked all over my ipod last week, and it seems to be dead.
Is your little bondi-blue imac still in the picture? I guess he can't do much of use these days ... poor thing - so soon obsolete...
Don't you love the internets for being able to find out about stuff like that. Power to the consumers!
ladada
Kristin - My husband said it was fine. You make an appointment online at the store closest you. The guy said what he thought it might be (probably backlight burnt out) and put in an order for the possible parts he might need, before he even opens it to find out for sure. Might even be fixed by end of week. I have a friend who always has second hand macs and such, and he loves the genius bar.
Dad - I gave the imac to Hannah. Actually it still works, except needing a new battery. But it's so slow, and the memory so small, it wasn't useful to me anymore. But not too expensive when you consider how long I did use it, and I never brought it in for repairs or anything.
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