Questioner's Day

Today questioner

• Woke up
  
• ate breakfast
  
• fried her laptop
  
• Went to the apple store which opened yesterday
  
• Got told it wasn't covered by apple care and would cost $800-900 to repair
  
• bought a new iBook for about $1600 including .Mac membership and transfer of her old data
  
• tried to workout... both nearby gyms were closed
  
• tried to get jamba juice for lunch -- also closed
  
• went to Whole Foods and bought lunch supplies for the week
  
• walked home
  
• was unexpectedly told that the data transfer would take long enough that the laptop would probably not be ready until tomorrow
  

In comparison to paying $800-900 to repair the laptop, this purchase costs 700-800 more and upgraded me from:

• OS 10.1.5 to Panther
  
• an airport card to airport extreme
  
• 256 SDRAM to 512 SDRAM
  
• 20 Gigs to 30 Gigs
  
• 600 MHz to 800 MHz
  
• + 1 year .Mac membership
  

I also should be able to cancel my applecare or transfer it to the new machine.
And if I can find out how to crack open the old laptop, maybe I can get it working after all and sell it or at least sell its parts for extra leftover money. Plus this gives something big to deduct at the end of the year on my taxes.

I'm kinda shell shocked. I didn't wake up expecting to spend $1600. But I have to have a laptop, so once it was friend, I really had no choice. Life goes on...