Sorry ladies, I am talking about my iBook, which has been giving me no end of trouble and expense lately. For about three months now, the power cable has been wearing away right beside the the plug that connects to the iBook. IFor three months, I literally thought that the cable was going to break the next time I touched it. Then one day I was in the middle of an email, the battery ran out, and there was no way to turn it back on. Luckily I live about a block and a half from the Argentine Apple reseller, so I took it to them. They said it was 30 pesos to repair the thing, which seemed reasonable for one non-standard plug and an hour of soldering. But, they called back to say that the transformer itself was also broken, and that they would have to replace another proprietary part for total cost of 110 pesos. Apple, I love you for making hardware and software that work so well, but I hate you for completely unnecessarily using non-standard hardware for plugs and connectors, since they donīt add anything to the user experience, and make it impossible for me to fix on my own, and expensive to have Apple Certified Technicians, or whatever you call them, do it.
The night after I got my computer back, I was just starting to get caught up, when the display froze with some horizontal lines, and wouldnīt restart with any video. I have seen this before. The logic board has gone bad, again, after it failed last year and I sent it to Apple for repair. Luckily, Apple covers the defect beyond the warranty for free, but unluckily they make you send the Computer to Texas, so they can do it there. I donīt know how long it takes to mail a ten-pound package from Argentina to Texas and back, but itīs a lot longer than I want to wait, escpecially since I am forced to Microsoft Windows, which is easily the largest engineering failure in the history of the human race. I have had Windows computers freeze up on me literally every single time I have used since the problem with my power adaptor, on four different computers, in four different computer labs! How can something so popular possibly suck so badly? Well, I know, but my time is running out, so youīll have to stay tuned to my next post to find out.
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