My computer may be dead

[laurierobey]

Must not...go...to...the Apple store!

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[jamesbarrett.livejournal.com]

Nooooooooo! *casts a heal spell on Laurie's computer*

you don't want my answer...

[mammallamadevil.livejournal.com]

because I'll be accused of aiding and abetting...

Re: you don't want my answer...

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Haha :D Not to mentioned convicted :P

I am sorely tempted to get the next generation of the Macbook Pro and set it up as a Mac/Windows dual boot and run Ubuntu in a VM for real work stuff.

The $3400 price tag is the only reason I don't have one now :P

Mako

[hantamouse.livejournal.com]

Lightning dead or hard drive dead?

[laurie-robey.livejournal.com]

And that's why I must not go. ;)

[laurie-robey.livejournal.com]

It was working well after the storms were gone. Something happened between 4:30 AM and 11 AM yesterday. So far, the diagnostics have said the optical drive isn't working, and the hard drive isn't working. Trying to boot gets me a black screen with an arrow cursor in the middle of it (after running chkdsk for the millionth time.

[laurie-robey.livejournal.com]

Further diagnostics reveal error code 2000-0146, which means it's something with the hard drive. The optical drive passes the test now. It's been wonky a long time.

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Great minds think alike :)

And at ~60% of the cost, double the memory and disk and half the Apple's portability and cool factor:

http://goo.gl/GkTgs

Mako