Questioner's Day

[danaeris]

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...

Comments

I was so lucky...

[happypete.livejournal.com]

I had the "CompleteCare," on my Dell. That option basically says "if it breaks, we don't care why, we'll fix it."

How did you fry your box?

[unseelie23.livejournal.com]

How did you fry it? Are you sure it's dead?

Once you get the data transferred, insist on getting the corpse back. The battery may or may not be useful (not sure if it matches the one you have already), but the drive can be removed and placed in an external firewire enclosure for less than $100 and then you'd have a backup drive.

The RAM and airport card might be worth *something* on E-Bay, but not much. Same for the battery, assuming it's not compatible with your new machine.

[emmett-the-sane.livejournal.com]

The ibook is dead... long live the ibook!

*ahem*

Seriously, sorry to hear about that. :( Big chunk o' money...

[nathanjw]

I imagine the new iBook was a G4 and the old one was a G3, so you got quite a bit more of a processor upgrade than just 600MHz to 800MHz (of course, MHz Is A Lie).

10.1.5 -> Panther: Good. Worth $100.
256M -> 512M: Good. Worth about $50.
20G -> 30G: Were you running low? Replacing or removing the drives on the iBook line is a cast-iron bitch, though.
airport -> airport extreme: you'll probably never notice.