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Laptop Update
For everyone who didn't hear my voicepost, my Early-2004 Apple iBook G4 laptop started screeching like a wornout brake pad* Saturday night. On ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nanakikun's advice, I packed it up the next morning and hopped the busses out to the second-nearest Apple Store. (I am glad I did so, too – apparently, the nearest had only one tech on duty.)
I said in the voicepost that the noise came from the fan compartment. I was wrong. iBooks don't have fans. It was the hard drive.
The technician predicted that repairs would be done in a week, two weeks at the outside. I give it even odds on the former, 3:1 on the latter. In the meantime, I'll either be borrowing or using my school-surplus PIII.
Now, to catch up on LJ and somehow retrieve my webcomic bookmarks. Ta!
* I'm lying. I've never listened to the sound of a wornout brake pad. A more accurate statement would be "it started squealing like I would imagine a rapidly-rotating polymer rubbing against a stationary polymer would". That lacks bite, though.
nanakikun's advice, I packed it up the next morning and hopped the busses out to the second-nearest Apple Store. (I am glad I did so, too – apparently, the nearest had only one tech on duty.)I said in the voicepost that the noise came from the fan compartment. I was wrong. iBooks don't have fans. It was the hard drive.
The technician predicted that repairs would be done in a week, two weeks at the outside. I give it even odds on the former, 3:1 on the latter. In the meantime, I'll either be borrowing or using my school-surplus PIII.
Now, to catch up on LJ and somehow retrieve my webcomic bookmarks. Ta!
* I'm lying. I've never listened to the sound of a wornout brake pad. A more accurate statement would be "it started squealing like I would imagine a rapidly-rotating polymer rubbing against a stationary polymer would". That lacks bite, though.