Love / hate relationship with my iBook
My love for my iBook is big – so big that my girlfriend even calls me Smeagol when I oh so gently pad it and says”My precious, my own”.
Even though it has a long history of pleasing my computing needs, it also have a bad track record of breaking down. It’s almost 3 years old now, so the warrenty is long gone. A little over 6 months ago, the LCD cable from the computer to the LCD screen started to work in mysterious ways – showing any other color that what it is supposed to. As the repair costs (2700 DKR for just replacing a cable!) exceeds what I can sell it for, I decided not to repair it.
As the cable got worse, I couldn’t take it anymore: I had to find some solution that allowed me to view the correct colors of the screen. As my brother works at Dell he gets their monitors cheap – and luckily he had a 15” LCD screen at home that he didn’t use for anything. Thank you for lending it to me!
Even though it’s just 15”, it’s bigger than the screen on the 12” iBook, and therefore a step-up. To make the step complete, I went on apple.com and bought an Apple keyboard and the new mighty mouse.
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So now I’m sort of back to a desktop setup, but It’s so clean! The iBook is hidden under the table, so I just have my 15” screen, my mac keyboard (nice and slim), my mighty mouse, and my 300 GB firewire harddrive. So clean! Ahhhh!
The iBook just got a notch up on the love scale and a notch down on the hate scale. Hurray! Guess attractive products just work better.
On an out of context note: I wonder where on Kathy Sierra’s Love/hate scale my relationship with my iBook is.
