Portable dependability
I just found out I'll be heading to Canada on January 1st for four days, which is going to make all of this even more interesting. At least I'll have a few days to decompress a bit and gear up for it once I get in from Houston.
Could be worse, I guess. Canada has some things going for it, Toronto especially. Plus, they all have a habit of talking like pirates, which is just precious. And from what I've been told I shouldn't encounter any french-canadians, which will be lovely.
The only real problem I'm having is that my laptop at some point really needs to go back into Apple for service, and finding a point where that is going to be feasible is the hard part. It's always "In 2 weeks I can do without for a week".
But of course you can't trust that, as sometimes it's 3 days, and sometimes it's a month depending on whatever is going on with them, and it's not like the Apple Store's will give you a loaner.
Moral of the story? You can't depend on current laptops as your primary computers anymore. They just aren't trustworthy, and local service centers can't/won't work on them, they always have to be sent out meaning a 3 day turn-around time at the minimum, which is just a drag.
I haven't had a laptop since my Powerbook 1400c that hasn't had to go in for service, and most of them have had to go back more than once. It's not necessarily just an Apple-thing, as I have friends with Dell's with similar issues (Dell keyboards seem to go bad a lot).
I miss being able to chunk down a bunch of cash, and know I was paying for peace of mind. That really isn't the case anymore. Although the tradeoff might be you can buy 2 laptops for the price of what you would have paid in the past...
Posted by drunkenbatmanDecember 10, 2003, at 02:47 AM
