Mark another notch in the side of my poor laptop … because it is going back to the Genii at Apple one more time. Why? Oh, the same reason as before. Garbled screen. Wierd lines. Display looking like an old television with a busted vertical hold. The usual. And the culprit is — of course — the logic board.
Cross your fingers that this will be the last time I get the board replaced … or maybe they’ll take pity and hand me a brand-new Mac.
(Yeah, right. And Steve Jobs himself will deliver it to my door, riding on a turbo-powered Segway.)
Update: So I did some remembering this morning, checking my history with this particular device. After checking my previous posts here, as well as the incomplete repair history
on Apple’s site, I know I’m right: This is the fourth time in just over a year and a half that I will be seeking repair for the same issue. What makes this more frustrating is that we’ve apparently lost a couple of the more out-spoken proponents for attracting Apple’s attention to this flaw. BlackCider.com? Replaced by some corporate-friendly email firm. SourApple.org? Now just a general search page. Sure, Apple has recognized the problem, but that doesn’t mean it should be forgotten. And for that matter, I know I can go and have them replace my logic board over and over again, but why should that be necessary? Why can’t it just be fixed and stay fixed? As it is, the logic board seems to only have about a ten-month lifespan. By this cycle, I will have to replace it again in September … but I won’t be able to do so. Why? Because even the magic and apologetic extended international warranty only stretches to three years beyond the original purchase date, which was back in August of 2002.
And what is the worst part of all? I’m still paying for this thing. Thanks to a gloriously inflated interest rate, the monthly check to MBNA just barely skims a few dollars from the original loan. Requests to reduce this rate go ignored, often with an under-the-breath chuckle from the MBNAndroid on the other end of the phone.
And so, it is entirely likely that I’ll be typing another post around this same time next year. The subject will be the inoperative paperweight that will serve no other purpose than to slowly leach money away from my bank account, month after month after month …
