Curse you, Steve Jobs!

[packbat]

Zee laptop, eet is kaput! All kaput!

You know, it could be my carting it about in the backpack every day, but I think Apple has lost quality since the old Mac Plus days. I have taken this in to replace the hard drive, to replace the monitor, to replace the logic board ... this stinks.

(Of course, the computer I want to replace it is a MacBook....)

Comments

[kirabug.livejournal.com]

What model are you running?

My Pismo made it a good solid 2.5 years until I dropped it and cracked the screen. Replaced the screen and it made it another 6 months or so before my little sister (who inherited it) managed to break the power coupling in the adaptor port right off the sound card. Why the power adaptor port was soldered to the sound card I don't want to know.

My white iBook is holding up beautifully. It's over 3 years old. I've had to upgrade the hard drive from 40GB to 120GB and the RAM from 512 to 1.12GB, but that's because I'm asking it to run Photoshop and 6 other programs all at once, and it gets grouchy, as any 3-year-old would do.

At work, we found that the original G4 towers were made of indestructable material -- we're still running a number of 6+ year old towers. The Quicksilvers, on the other hand, break if you look at them crooked, and they're only 4-5 years old! The three-year-old mirror-doors seem to be doing well, though Haven't gotten my hands on a cheese grater yet.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a iBook G4, bought mid-2005, I think – judging by the serial number (http://www.tuaw.com/2005/04/14/when-was-your-mac-born/), it's a 2004 Tawainese model, probably the late-2004 version. And honestly, I do bang it around. Still frustrating, though.

[kirabug.livejournal.com]

Nifty serial-number thingie! Taiwan, 2003, 51st week. Mine doesn't get as much wear-and-tear now that I'm out of school. Spends most of its time in the livingroom, with occasional trips to my parents, to work, or on vacation. Vacation is the main reason I'll probably buy another laptop this year.