I’ve been running around like crazy this year already. Trying to fight back a Sysiphean ToDo list. But I really feel like I’m swimming through mud this week.
My Mac Book Pro was being a bit finicky about starting back up after sleeping, and today it gave up the ghost entirely. Of course, I had just finished a screencast for one of my classes that took a not-inconsiderable amount of time, and thought I’d just wait to upload it at work, since I’d be hard wired instead of WiFied. When I tried to start it back up, it couldn’t find the hard disk–it looks like the drive is borked. I should be ready for that, but the truth is that I’ve never had a hard drive go bad on three previous Sonys and a Sharp.
And then, I fell down some marble stairs. No, not with the lappy, so the only things damaged were me-parts. But it never seems to happen that you fall down when you are having a really good day–only when it’s already not going well. Must have been dragging my feet or something.
Anyway, I am very ready for spring break–can we just move it up one week, please?
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Awe Alex!!!!! I don’t know what’s worse, the falling down the stairs or the FUBAR’d laptizzle. (Kidding!!!! We all know organic tissue regenerates!!!) My s/o has a MacBook… his first Apple. I told him to wait just a bit, make sure they’re ok. I keep hearing these stories… makes me sad. More more importantly, feel better. I know it’s probably not your thang, but we are in mercury retrograde. Trouble with short-term travel, computers, and communication. And no signing contracts or buying big things. I don’t know what I think of all that, but it sure feels like it has some merit right now…
Sorry to hear about the fall, and the bad MacBook. I’ll tell Steve Jobs to send you a replacement, but just inc ase it takes too long, you might want to drop by the Apple Store to get the genius to fix it :P
Well, hard drives do fail and quality of hard drives vary. I can’t say that I would blame apple for a hd failure personally. Backups are our friend. That said, it looks like its actually not a mechanical failure, try zapping the pram
Thanks, all. I think it’s going to the school (Mac Acolyte?) rather than a Mac Genius, since it’s the school’s computer, really. Luckily, when it started being strange, I managed to back up all my data files, with the exception of that *$(@$ screencast on using Sketchup that I may or may not redo.
I did everything Mac suggests: cycled the PRAM, reset power management, etc. The install media doesn’t see the HD. So, I’m pretty sure it’s deadski, but we’ll see what they say.
I know drives fail, and I’m not nec. blaming Apple, but from a glance across the web, it seems like the MBP drives are more susceptible to failure than others. Hard to say really.
Generally, I love the computer–it’s been really great. I wish it was about half the weight, and that it was working right now, but otherwise I’ve been very happy.
The other piece of this is that I hate having to get other people to fix my computer. Doesn’t the non-pro Mac Book have a user-upgradable hard drive? Ah, well.
Eeep. Alex, please get rid of my sloppy html above and post this instead:
Speaking of fubar‘d Seems like we’re both damaging our parts this semester, and seeing as how we have exactly the same Apple laptop … well, you can be sure I’ll be backing mine up.