Rock and a hard place
Jul. 1st, 2003 01:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khaosworksSo what the hell do I do?
They replaced Cassandra's LCD screen, which made the problem less acute, but didn't get rid of the problem. She still fritzes when I jar her, or try to move her screen - which is fine but that means I don't dare move her while working on her and also means that she's not stable and could fritz at any time.
Which leads me to think that it's the logic board that is the problem as diagnosed earlier - which they didn't replace. Now, if I got the local AppleCenter (at Funan) to replace the logic board it won't be covered by the shop warranty, and that'll cost me probably over S$1000. If I send it back to Best-Denki (who hold the shop warranty), they'll take another fucking month and probably won't solve the problem again - and that month I don't have.
Do I live with the problem? Buy a new Powerbook? Pay the S$1000?
The alternative my gut is leading me to is to say, live with the problem until I finish up what I need to finish using Cassandra, pay the local AppleCenter the S$1000 to fix her, forget getting an iMac, and just buy/build a PC when I reach the US. Maybe this is God's usual un-subtle way of telling me to forget the iMac indulgence.
They replaced Cassandra's LCD screen, which made the problem less acute, but didn't get rid of the problem. She still fritzes when I jar her, or try to move her screen - which is fine but that means I don't dare move her while working on her and also means that she's not stable and could fritz at any time.
Which leads me to think that it's the logic board that is the problem as diagnosed earlier - which they didn't replace. Now, if I got the local AppleCenter (at Funan) to replace the logic board it won't be covered by the shop warranty, and that'll cost me probably over S$1000. If I send it back to Best-Denki (who hold the shop warranty), they'll take another fucking month and probably won't solve the problem again - and that month I don't have.
Do I live with the problem? Buy a new Powerbook? Pay the S$1000?
The alternative my gut is leading me to is to say, live with the problem until I finish up what I need to finish using Cassandra, pay the local AppleCenter the S$1000 to fix her, forget getting an iMac, and just buy/build a PC when I reach the US. Maybe this is God's usual un-subtle way of telling me to forget the iMac indulgence.
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Date: 2003-06-30 09:16 pm (UTC)I've had NINE Macs...NONE of them have ever been 'on the fritz', except for one where a lousy motherboard battery leaked and the acid burnt some of the innards.
Who are these Mac users that you know whose machines are 'always' on the fritz? Perhaps they don't take very good care of them?