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posted 1 October 06 & filed under cranky, techno-babble
a few days ago, my laptop’s power cord started shooting out sparks. scary! after three years, the cord had been tripped over countless times, yanked out of the laptop dozens of times, and so on. it was not looking pretty, but i was not expecting the sparks – i’ve been so careful the last few months.
anyhow, went to the nearest apple store and i gotta say i’m not happy. not only do they not carry the old powercords, but there’s none to be found in all of l.a. county, they said. so, i went online to apple’s website to order one, and the soonest they can get it to me would be in 3-4 weeks. ridiculous! makes me very angry.
online again i went, and found this, for less than half the price of the apple version. with 2 day shipping, it’ll be here on wednesday at the latest. good reviews can be found as well, though i won’t be completely sure until it arrives, of course.
i’m really disappointed in apple, and looking at the 1,077 reviews for the old powercord, it seems there are many many of us out there. bad design, horrible shipping wait, not to mention expensive price equals a lot of unhappy people.
ok, end of rant. i’ll be back in a few days ~ ~ things have been miraculously good and real and all the things you hope for, but i’m cautious and trying to not jinx things or fall into complete dreams. hope your first day of october goes beautifully.
update: it arrived in record time and works like a dream. yay ;)
aye, what an awful pain.
so whats going on with you?
i’ll email you tomorrow about a weekend this month.
~ rose
I love my mac and I always will, but they have had an issue with the cords. Mine is a G3 – 8 years old – and was subject to a cord recall in 1999/2000ish. My refurbished cord died last month (admittedly after many, many years) and now I’m using the spare. Personally, I can’t complain too much, though, because the functionality of the old G3 in comparison to say, a Dell of the same vintage, is impressive – really no comparison at all!
~ Julia
my sister, who is rough on her equipment, has one of those power cords (the non-apple one) for one of her many apple laptops. it works like a charm. you’ll be happy. just this weekend she was complaining about the Apple people in toronto. Maybe since its become more popular, the service has become more grumpy!
~ loriz
well that sucks! I hope the cord gets to you quickly.. I know what it’s like to be without a computer.
~ moni