I have to give it to ya, Steve Jobs. You are a genius. Charging people to even talk to your support center when the computer that they bought from you 8 months ago decides to stop regcognizing its hard drive is one of the best ways I can think of to wrangle more money out of people who have already doled out far-above-market-price bucks for one of your shiny white creations.
Indeed had I know that I could load up one of your plastic-encased number-crunchers with an entire year of my life, including pictures of the amazing things I’ve done, papers and research components that make up my entire portfolio for School, and all of the music that I have bought to support my burgeoning DJ career just in time for it’s hard drive to suddenly and inextricably perform digital suicide I would have built up my collections to the macbook’s critical mass sooner in order to streamline the process of shoveling money at you hand over fist.
Granted, it is partially my bad for not getting a second hard drive and backing up my collections of gigs upon gigs of music and pictures and important documents; but at the same time there was a reasonable expectation on my behalf that a computer that is not even a year old and is supposed to be the pinnacle of Personal Laptop Engineering was going to up and die.
So I say boo to you, Stevie Boy. I tip my hat in grudging respect at your marketing and profit-raking savvy. I do this while at the same time slowly filling a tube sock with wood screws in the off chance that we meet, so I can let you know what it feels like to have a part of you forcibly removed, then charge you for directions to the hospital.
Ah ode to the dying MacBook. I had a lemon HD as well. It decided to give me the gray screen of death and burn up the hard drive right in the middle of my final research project before graduating. All of my pictures from Pullman- gone. All of the research papers (and there were 10-12 of them a semester) gone. However, there is a company out there that can recover anything from a your hard drive for an enormous amount of green ($1000-2000). I can get that info for you if you want. Sometimes the content of your life on Mac is worth it.
Jeremy- Download Knoppix its a live version of linux. It can help you recover your data most of the time. Its free and just takes some of your time. If you don’t understand how to use it fell free to call me and I will walk you through it. 509*863*5422
I love you. He does suck.
I’m laughing right now. Not at you. But the words. dear christ Jeremy… hahahaha.
talk to Matt, he is smart. but he also just got someone pregnant, soo… getting ahold of him might be hard….