Ouch!

[mousme]

It turns out that my computer was bought roughly three years and six weeks ago. This puts me six weeks past the three-year limit that Apple has put on footing the bill for faulty logic cards.

*sigh*

So, right now I'm looking at about $700-800 for the part, plus about $200 for the labour.

There are three steps I may have to take.

1- Call Apple and see if they'll make an exception for me, since it's so close to the purchase date.

2- When that doesn't work, wait until my father gets back from his trip and see if his insurance will pay for the repairs. My computer is covered under his insurance, in theory. He gets back next Wednesday (Nov. 30th).

3- When that doesn't work, investigate the possibility of a new computer. Maybe in ten years, when I can afford one.


Best case scenario, I'll have a working computer in two weeks. Less good but still okay scenario, I have a working computer in somewhere over a month. Worst case scenario, I'm screwed and have no computer at all, indefinitely. At least my bills will be lower. :P

Comments

[jdhobbes.livejournal.com]

Is this your home computer or your work computer?

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Home computer.

My work computer is a PC. *spits*

Ahem.

Yeah. Cleo is my iBook.

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Yikes.

Ever wonder if today's industries deliberately construct equipment to fail within a specified time? Within, say, a month of warranty wearing out?

If things play out badly insurance-wise, you will not be without a computer for long. There are enough people around you with spare parts that like magic, a new one can be assembled within a fortnight. It would be a desktop, not a laptop, and chances are slim it would be a Mac again, but hey, you'd have a computer.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's what I jokingly call "planned obsolescence." Electronic gizmos all seem to die sad, sorry deaths a few months after their warranties expire. It's an unwritten rule of manufacture.

I'm going to see, if the worst case scenario happens, I can't get my father to replace the computer through the university. Thus I'd get a rebate and maybe a good payment plan, and it would still be a Mac.

Otherwise, I may rely on the kindness of my friends to make a Frankencomputer for me. :)

[ai731.livejournal.com]

Well, OK, but the laptop I just gave you (in working order) was purchassed as an end-of-line model in early 1998. Yesterday t! asked for a pocket calculator, and the one I pulled out for him was my scientific calculator from grade 10, which for me is 19 years ago (actually what amazed me about that was that the solar cells on it still work).

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

The older it is, the better it seems to work. My stove, for example, is 33 years old and performs incredibly well. Certainly better than the ones I've been using in rented flats, anyhow. Planned obsolescence is a relatively recent thing, I think, within the last 15 years or so. Before that, manufacturers actually took pride in the fact that their products would last.

I'm so bitter. :)

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

4- Remind the Parental Units that Christmas is coming up awful soon. Mention incidentally that Cleo has gone west. In subsequent conversations with Parental Units, wistfully mention how bad it is for career prospects not to have a computer at home with which to write a CV, respond to e-mail ('cos you could never do that on company time), etc. Employ puppy-dog eyes.

5- Apply to fearsclave for weaponry: hold up bank and/or computer store.

[toughlovemuse.livejournal.com]

Calling Apple is a good idea. I don't know how their customer service is, but Compaq fed-exed me a new battery for my computer when I was a couple weeks out of the warranty on mine. They said it was close enough.