Laptop DOA
Powerbook…still out of commission…argh. It came back from it’s second repair and exhibited pretty much the same problems as before; couldn’t even make it through install. When I hook up my disaster drive through Firewire it will run just fine. In fact, it seems a bit faster, but that’s probably because I haven’t loaded it down with tons of extra crap.
Spent a while on the phone with an AppleCare product specialist today, describing the full chain of events that I’d written down. Yippee, it’s heading back to Texas whenever the box arrives. In the mean time at least it looks like I can use it somewhat reliably with the external drive. I think I’ll end up setting this environment up as nicely as my usual environment, and have little motivation to do a full install on the repaired laptop except for the portability.
Well, at least I’ve got ecto re-installed for better blogging.
