No Apple Love
About eight months ago or so, Lisa and I decided to get a new laptop that both of us could use. I decided I didn’t want to buy a Windows computer, so we “compromised” (she gave in) and we got a 17″ MacBook Pro. I was pretty impressed with it, and she found it usable enough (though Quicken for Mac is quite different from the Windows version, and she still doesn’t like it much).
Two weeks ago, we started having problems booting it. Problems like, the Apple logo on the boot screen would turn into a no sign and not boot. Or sometimes it would turn into a black screen and start printing console error messages before dropping me into a root shell. Or sometimes it would boot fine but then Finder would get into an infinite crash loop. Or sometimes it would boot fine and not have any problems at all for days.
I backed up most of my data and took it to the Apple store this afternoon, where they had pretty severe problems just trying to boot from an external disk. They took it and said that they’d try replacing the logic board and possibly the hard disk, and give me a call in a week or so when it’s ready.