Macbook Reborn

It's been a long time, or at least it's felt like it, but I finally have a working Macbook again. It's actually a brand new Macbook, Apple replaced my old one. I would have gone after them with torches and pitchforks if they hadn't.

As you recall, I sent my Macbook off to get fixed with some trepedation because of all the problems I had with my crappy 12" iBook 4 years ago. Well, sure enough, I got another dud. Not even two hours after I got my Macbook back, the logic board died. This was after I waited a week to get the danged thing returned. The next morning I was on the phone to Apple explaining how I wouldn't put up with it again. My chances were slim to none for getting a new Macbook, but then a wonderful thing happened. I proved that I suffered from a crappy laptop in the past. Once they dug up the repair history on the crappy iBook I had, they agreed to send me a brand new machine.

So, here I am typing away on the Macbook and expecting it to blow up at any minute. If it's anything like my last one, I've got two months to go before the logic board blows up. Let's hope it doesn't this time. My tip: don't ever by revision 1 hardware from anyone. Regardless of the hardware issues, I'd like to take my hat off to Apple's support group. At no point during this whole fiasco did I feel like someone wasn't listening to me, and I never felt like the person on the other end was reading from some sort of service script. Thanks for doing the right thing, Apple.