*sigh* The guys in Boston are apparently better than your average Apple repair people.
What kind of computer do you have? My brother's iMac G5 had a combination of a bad fan and power supply and was in and out of the shop until someone realized that both of those parts were busted and if you just replaced one, the other one would break the new part eventually.
iBook G4. It's gone back to AppleCare for the random shutdowns, they changed the logicboard, the monitor and pulled some RAM, saying that it was third party non-supported (when it was RAM I ordered in the laptop when I bought the thing, anyway, sigh) and sent it back after 12 days in California and it's still doing the same shit, only it's slower and randomly shutting down. They don't know what's wrong, my options are to send it back to California and let them dinker around with it for a few weeks when it's finals time Right Now or try to deal with the random shutdowns and losing information and fucking up all my system settings until term's over, then send it back to them to dinker around with for a few weeks. Can you see why I'm less than amused?
That's what I had - my brother's using it now. Mine didn't shut down at random, it kernel panicked at random (although more and more frequently the warmer the logic board was). They changed the logic board twice and the second time seemed to fix it. Why they had to do that twice, I'll never know.
I get better service from the Genius Bar than Apple HQ, but I think all the Apple stores in your state are about an hour away from you.
Yeah, I have to drive to Bethesda or Towson, neither of which is a picnic and not in this weather, let me tell you, and I know those Apple Stores, they're going to look at it and tell me it has to go to Apple HQ. That's their solution for everything.
I have 13 days left to get everything done, with something due on almost every day. So if I sent it in now, I'd have it back in time for...Christmas, with their current track record. *headdesk*
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Date: 2007-12-03 19:26 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-06 15:51 (UTC)What kind of computer do you have? My brother's iMac G5 had a combination of a bad fan and power supply and was in and out of the shop until someone realized that both of those parts were busted and if you just replaced one, the other one would break the new part eventually.
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Date: 2007-12-06 15:58 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-06 16:14 (UTC)I get better service from the Genius Bar than Apple HQ, but I think all the Apple stores in your state are about an hour away from you.
Gah. How many more days of finals for you?
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Date: 2007-12-06 16:21 (UTC)I have 13 days left to get everything done, with something due on almost every day. So if I sent it in now, I'd have it back in time for...Christmas, with their current track record. *headdesk*
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Date: 2007-12-06 17:48 (UTC)o_O Fuck.