Back in the Saddle

I am pleased to announce that Apple elected to end my frustration by providing me with a brand new imac. šŸ˜€ Apple finally conceded and determined that my imac was a lemon apparently. Very good call in my opinion. Now I have me a brand spankin’ new imac with double the HD space (1 TB Yay!) and iLife ’09. So far it’s running like a champ and is noticeably more responsive than my previous imac. Apple is back on my …

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Grrrrr…

So I just picked up my imac from the Apple Store, brought it home, plugged it in, then what did I see…? Nothing but a black screen. Hmmm… It made the usual sounds when firing up, it’s just that the screen never came on. šŸ˜• Ā I then proceeded to shut it down and then restart it. A few seconds later… bam! …it’s working again. In fact, the system seemed to be performing faster than it had before, which would make …

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Good Thing I Bought AppleCare

For the second time within the past year, my incredibly sleek, stylish, fast, and supposedly virus-free,Ā 24″ 3.0GHZ Intel imac has taken a crap on me. The first time it died was due to a hard drive failureĀ within six weeks of purchasing it. Needless to say I was more than a little bit pissed. This time it’s the Logic Board and graphics card thatĀ are being replaced. From what I understand, that’s basically the entire computer aside from the power supply, RAM, …

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