My MAC is DEAD

I am compelled to write, after a very, very long time.

Having been an avid Macintosh user since the early 90s, my most trusted Brand of computer has finally turned me down : (

Over the years I have the pleasure of owning the PowerPC 6200/75, PowerPC 7100/66 AV, Macintosh IIfx, 15" Powerbook G4, Apple Stylewriter 2400, 60GB Ipod video and finally the 13" black Ibook 80GB.

Yesterday, 6 Aug 2007 the unthinkable happened. My Ibook crashed at about 1.30pm right after lunch. There was that spinning icon of a curser which doesn't seem to come to a stop. My next reaction would be to press the start up button. The screen went blank for a bit longer than usual, then the unfamiliar little envelope with the question mark appears staring at you.

Oh oh. what happened? Not to worry, its a Mac. nothing can possibly go wrong, and at worst, if everything fails than my friend Zul will know how to deal with it, after all it is still under Warranty.

"Sorry Bro, how I wish I could share with you some good news but unfortunately, your Mac really did crashed on you and there is nothing else we can do" said Zul. He just shook his head and said that the hard disc emits a certain 'clicking' sound at start-up, indicating a 'hardware problem'.


...........the ill fated hard drive

The next reaction, my documents. How do i access them, I was halfway through preparing 3 or 4 proposals and need to submit one of them by tomorrow. Ok, stay cool.

You got to do what you got to do. Lets start all over again.

Actually I had an option of retreiving my files. A shop in Low Yat can do it. For a 80GB it would cost me about rm 1900. And I may have to wait for a month, because they have to send it to Korea. At 70% success rate, I thought maybe its not worth while.

Maybe its worth a lot more than that. The proposal is worth alot more. It's OK, maybe I should be alot more careful in future, and maybe its time I clean house with proper documentation and archiving.

Whats lost. Well family pictures, some important documents, emails, presentations etc and the list goes on.

Nevertheless, lucky thing I had my computer backed-up 6 months ago. So all is not too bad.

Moral of the story is, SHIT do Happen! ....even to Macs.