The digitized scribblings of Matthew E. Milliken
By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
May 2, 2015
Since I can’t stop, won’t stop making connections between different things…
and since I want to keep my weekly posting tallies as high as is reasonably possible…
I just wanted to point out that one of the subjects of Friday’s post, the 1992 Los Angeles riots…
By Matthew E. Milliken
MEMwrites.wordpress.com
May 2, 2015
I almost forgot to write about my laptop meltdown. No, not that one — I’m talking about the latest one.
It happened a month ago, on a Tuesday or Wednesday night. I was just sitting down at a coffee shop when my MacBook Pro started acting screwy. Then it stopped working. Multiple attempts to restart the machine failed to get things loading properly.
I scheduled an appointment at the nearest Apple Store for the morning of Saturday, April 4. When I went in, I was told that the hardware was mostly* in order, but I appeared to have experienced a failure of my hard drive and/or the cable that connects it to the rest of the computer.
As it happened, of course, the hard drive had been replaced a few years ago, and a new connecting cable had just been installed in November. But when I raised these points with the Apple Genius, I was told that these parts and repairs were only covered by 90-day warranties. Therefore, the coverage had expired.
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