I am writing this post, partially from my phone, and partially from a borrowed tablet notebook (thanks Justin!). The keyboard is too small for my comfort, and it has the eraser pointing device in the middle, and it is generally less than optimal for me to use. But as the title spells out, all of my computers are dead.
Last week Cloud, the iMac (which is technically Susan’s, but I work from it), was running hot, so I turned it off for the day. When I went to boot it the screen turns on, the hard drive makes a few clicking sounds before powering down, and we suddenly have a very fashionable paperweight (I wonder when that reference will no longer make sense…). It sucks, of course, but we found a place to do data recovery (we hope), and install a new hard drive. Also, some more RAM while their at it. So, even if we lose all our data, we will be getting back a better computer… T_T
Two nights ago my laptop, a MacBook Pro running Ubuntu, began running hot, in my lap no less. So I shut it off for a while. And it wouldn’t boot again. I went to sleep, slightly irritated, but thinking it was just a fluke. In the morning, it booted fine. That would be the last time. Now it turns on, makes the Apple sound, and starts heating up, but nothing on the screen, and no keyboard lights.
It is still under Apple Care, which is code for pain in my ass that I directly correlate with a corporation. I will be taking it in today. I don’t do backups on my laptop, because it is essentially a thin client, everything is either in the cloud or on an external drive. But it is still leaving me in an awkward situation, where I am a web developer without my own computer.
Fortunately we will be getting Cloud back today or tomorrow. I essentially only lost one day’s worth of work, though who knows the irritation and queuing I will be doing in the coming hours (and days).
As soon as I have a chance, I am going to pick up a Hoverboard.
Update (Wed. evening): I dropped orenji (the laptop) at the Apple Store. They will call me in the next couple of days with their diagnosis. Bleh.
Update (Thur. evening): Apple store called, logic board/video card died. Covered by Apple Care, part will take 5 to 7 business days to get in. Meh.
Cloud, on the other hand, is taking longer than anticipated due to the Windows partition. I told them to scrap it, if that would speed up the data recovery. I am really hoping the MacOS X partition is recovered, just for the time it will save re-installing the applications. Should be done tomorrow or Sat.
) as mine recently died, and the desktop I use I have to keep running otherwise I have to discharge and reset the bios… it’s a whole thing.