Macbook Pro Go Boom

claco — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:19:57 +0000

Slowly over the last couple of weeks, my Macbook Pro started going downhill. It started with a big bad pixel in the top middle of the screen. Nothing worth pursuing since there was only one. Then Saturday while doing some full screen editing in Textmate I noticed a rash of speckles on the right side. I thought it was dirt. Of course, it didn’t come off when I cleaned the screen.

Off I went to the Apple store Sunday to get it fixed. Aside from the wait due to the place being packed as always, the process was pretty easy. My Genius called over another Genius and said “Hey, come look at this.” Oh no I thought. Apparently, one thing that gets the Genius folk excited are laptops that are old but in mint condition. They seemed pleased that my old 2007 was cherry. Of course it was. I pamper the thing. The Speck case doesn’t hurt either. And it doesn’t hurt my chances of getting the screen fixed without issue as well.

Luckily for me, the LCD replacement was an in store repair. Once the part came in Tuesday the repair was done and they called me this evening to come pick it up.

Nice. Thank god I spent the $ I saved on an Apple store refurb on AppleCare.

Still Waiting: iPod Touch 64GB

claco — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:40:14 +0000

Now that iTunes has gone DRM free, I’ve been adding more albums to my collection. I’m only about two thirds of the way done ripping my CDs to the network share. Even at relatively low quality, I have well over 30GB or music. This means an iPod Touch is out of the question for me. 32GB just isn’t enough.

On the other hand, we have the iPod Classic, which has tons of room, but well, it’s worthless compared to an iPod touch. Dear Apple, add me to the list of thousands that would gladly buy an iPod Touch if you would just bump it up to 64GB already. 128GB would also rock.

Christopher H. Laco » Apple

Macbook Pro Go Boom

Still Waiting: iPod Touch 64GB