All due props

[libertango]

After giving me a window of 3-5 days to get Minimax back, the Southcenter Apple Store called last night and said it was ready. I've picked it up, and everything appears to be doing well. 1 day turnaround is pretty good.

In an interesting way of setting what the marketing jargon calls a "reference price," they printed up a receipt to let me know this Main Logic Board replacement would have cost $617.81 had the machine not been under warranty. That's about as much as it cost new. No, nobody's trying to sell an Applecare extension, why do you ask?

Now comes the most difficult part of trying to fix an intermittent problem like this: Waiting to see if it goes wrong again, while realizing early success may only be a Black Swan.

Oddest side effect found so far: My serial number isn't in System Profiler any more. It only says,

"Serial Number (system): System Serial#"

Having kept all my receipts, though, I think that'll be OK.

Comments

[kateyule.livejournal.com]

My second iPhone (replacement for one I dropped & broke) turned out to be a lemon (flaky accelerometer). David did me a HUGE service by finding an online discussion of that exact problem, including how to induce it.

This meant that I could poke at the supposedly All Better Now phone for about ten seconds and hand it back to the clerk saying "Nope. Still broken." So glad I could establish that right away!

(So glad I have a resident geek.)

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. The difference between a problem you can reproduce at will and one that shows up every now and then is huge. It's why I did the YouTube video in the first place -- documentation. ("It's not doing it now, but this is what it looks like when it does...")

I think he's just left, but clearly what David should be greeted with on his return is "Mission to Marzipan" from Ben & Jerry's.

[kateyule.livejournal.com]

Have laid in a pint of it. Thanks for the tip.