iBook fixed (almost)

It’s never a good sign when you don’t blog for a few day’s. It can only either mean you’re struck down dumb with some nasty illness or you’re too depressed to write. Heck you can even blog on holiday these days, what with wifi in all major towns and gprs for everywhere else so that’s no excuse anymore either. So yeah, as i think I’ve said recently i’ve been on and off “what’s the point”, a phrase which undeniably say’s it all.

But may as well plough on. First up, as there is always plenty to say about Apple related matters I may as well start there. I took my iBook into the Apple store on monday to have the replacement lid+screen fitted, I didn’t fancy hanging around Meadowhall for hours (south yorkshire types will understand why) so I left it with them over-night and got my mum to collect. And don’t look at me like that, she was going anyway. So I received it back yesterday, turns out they didn’t waste an all new screen on it after-all, rather more sensibly they discovered that some steel frame inside the lid had cracked, so they just fixed that up. It went from a 280gbp/500usd repair to just a 40gbp/71usd one, not that that makes much difference to me as I wouldn’t have had to pay either way, but it does make me feel a little less guilty, what with it all being my own accident prone self’s fault anyway (that’s just between me and you OK?). I’m also slightly relieved about it because I’m fortunate in that my ibook screen has no dead pixels of any kind. You never know, if it had been replaced I might have ended up with a dead pixel deluxe. Now for the comedic part of the whole thing, my iBook no-longer knows when i’ve closed the lid, haha the Apple Store peeps have forgotten to wire something up inside… oops. It’s a nuisance but I don’t think I’m bothered enough to take it back again. I mean, it’s not too difficult to choose ‘Sleep’ from the Apple menu is it? I’ll probably wait until the warranty is about to expire and then take it in for an M.O.T.