Major decision point

[ceagle]

Why do these things always happen when money is tight?

You may have read about my macMiseries lately.. with the audio and now the video freeze problems. :<
I haven't been able to do much at all online the last few days, because even with the minimum ram and no airport, I'm still getting the system freezes consistently a few minutes after startup now... *sigh*
Thank goodness I was able to get this older backup machine last year from yasha_taur ... *whew.. hugs thanksthanks*

But the dilemma is this:
I already went through the logic board recall in December last year, and Apple is telling me that the warranty on that is Only 3 Months... then it's $300 every time it breaks again... which could be Every 3 Months! ;P
I could get a whole NEW (used) laptop for that!

So now the question is:
a) pay $50 to bench-test to be absolutely sure it's the problem
b) skip that and just buy another machine, either a
c) used mac, or a
d) used windows machine

Whichever one, this will have a to a speed boost... probably to 800 or 900 minimum, since if I get a mac powerbook, I really want to get one of the last ones with the ability to boot in 9. (Any thoughts Yasha? email me?) :>

But even a used win machine would be okay.... though maybe I'm just thinking that right now because I'm so pissed at the moment with Apple only backing their hardware for 90 measly days...

grr!

Comments

good suggestions!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

I actually did wait on the line almost a half hour (total time of phone call=52 minutes), just to hear the supervisor tell me the same thing, AND then suggest I pay him $50 just to have him sit on the line and listen as I would reinstall system disks... yeah right! ;P
I could've gone further up, yeah... but ya sorta reach the threshhold of annoyance at some point, and I guess that was it.. :/

ooooo! As for the newer machines, I'm sure they are ginchy (I work on 'em here n there), but for my needs I really wanna have the ability to boot in 9 .. it's an added flexibility, and installing some things in the Classic emulator really can be finicky too.

I may have one some day, but I'm feeling like I never wanna give Apple new machine money ever again, so it would likely be used if I do..

Thanks for the comments!

Re: good suggestions!

[buran.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, ALL companies can and do produce this kind of bad experience for their customers from time to time, so even if you switched to someone else, you might run into the exact same problems ... and do you want to really have to worry about viruses and spyware and re-buy all your software?