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| Karen and Her Beloved Mac Book Pro :-) |
So, I called Apple, and they said back it up. It took 2 days and nights to get that to work. Many phone calls to the External Hard Drive company, and finally, it was mostly all saved.
I sent it Friday, July16th. They had it by Monday morning and I had it back by Wednesday afternoon. That was fast. They replaced 4 things.
1. USB thingys.
2. The track pad
3. The cd/dvd drive
4. something else, not sure what it was.
Guess what. The track pad doesn't work. I thought it did, but it doesn't really work. It does a tiny bit more than it did, but after being on the phone with Apple for over an hour today, they said: plug your mouse back in. We will repair it again, when you have time to send it in.
Why can't they just give me a different one. You would think that since I started trying to get it fixed ever since I opened it (almost). At first, I thought it was me, being stupid about not knowing Macs.
Then, I called the tech support at FSO, over and over and over. Finally, in October, I called Apple again. (I called once before that, but didn't complain because I thought it was me).
I opened it Aug. 28th, started class on Aug. 31. It was a problem from the beginning. The screen was too big, the buttons didn't work, etc.
It has done so many things wrong, that it gets to be almost a joke.
I have wondered, what would it be like to get a degree from Full Sail when your computer does what it's supposed to? What is it like to have ichat work? What is it like to have idisk work? What is it like to have iWeb work? What is it like for the track pad to work? What is it like for word and other programs text boxes to stay still, and not rotate from left to right and right to left, like a spinner in a child's game?
Even this Lit Review, I have written it over and over again, because, even though it was saved, when it left the computer, it was gone and I had to start over again. True, I think it's gotten better each time, but it would have anyway. It is so hard to start from scratch. So, this is my
WOE IS ME BLOG about my computer this time. I'm so sad that it got fixed. . . yet it didn't. . . . . .
Unless, my oldest son is right. He has decided that I have something in me that just wrecks the computer. That I can't help it, it's just me, and my body will always wreck the computer. I've almost decided that he might be right.
If I didn't want this degree, if I didn't like almost all of my professors, if I didn't like that I'm learning something. . . then I would have given up on this degree. It is really important to me. So, I continue.
Karen, this is going to sound terrible but I so enjoyed reading your blog...finally someone else out there in the universe who knows what its like to have your computer go haywire. Mine went berserk in December..for Christmas to be exact. I too lost things that I had put a lot of time into like my first AR website and my Literature Review. I admire your enthusiasm despite everything. I am sure that you are going to do great and that your computer will get its act together for you.
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