Monday 5 December, 2005
Clouds
Just my luck - I'm sick as a dog for the only day that I actually have free for weeks on end... but come Monday morning the worst I'm feeling is tiredness... oh well. I should be glad of the little things.
There is also a cloud on my beautiful blue Mac loving sky. My little iBook has gradually been losing the use of it's AirPort card (I think) - first it was sluggish to get the network connection back after waking up (it would take like 5 minutes), then it started dropping it in the middle of a session, and today I haven't been able to get it to connect at all. Right now it's connected via an ethernet cable, so I'm thinking I've narrowed it down to the wireless connection. I'm planning to take it with me to work tomorrow - if I can connect it to the wireless network there, I'd say my router is busted, if not, the AirPort card probably is, in both cases the warranty should sort it out. I hope it's just the card - as if if I need to send the iBook away it's unlikely it'll get back before the holidays (which is in three weeks - eek!).
I have to admit, I'm a bit grumpy about this. I got a Mac because I didn't want to deal with any technology shit - now I'm forced in to a middle of an annoying is-it-or-isn't-it struggle... there's nothing I hate more (professionally and personally) than intermittent technology problems. If it doesn't work I can send it away to be repaired - but if it occasionally works it's next to impossible to debug, let alone convince someone else that it's not working.
To quote Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, "Every OS Sucks" (Thanks Sean!).
Posted by kolibri at 5 December 22:35, 2005Don't you have a nice Mac shop nearby to bring your computer? They will do the job of debugging, possible when waiting. (I hope)
(For those not familiar with Mac language, the Airport is not for aeroplanes, it's the name of usual wireless 802.11g network.)
The Trolls are really funny, including "The Internet Helpdesk" and "Wes Sold To Microsoft".
# 2 - Janne (on December 6, 2005 04:06 AM):
Any tech breaks down every now and then. The key thing is to realize that unlike with most PC vendors, Apple's support actually works very well. They've always been very prompt, fixed things well, even given me a loaner laptop.
Apple's extended warranty is completely worth the money. It may be expensive, but it has certainly made life a lot easier when things eventually break.
Don't debug it yourself. It's an Apple. Their entire tech support is based around the idea that most of their users are incapable of debugging anything.
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