Well, the hard drive in my 5 month old MacBook Pro started developing bad sectors this week. On Tuesday, I tried to reboot and it pretty much refused to come up. Neither Linux nor OSX would boot up. The OSX fsck reported unrepairable volume corruption. A badblocks disk scan from linux revealed several bad blocks. Luckily, enough of the Linux partition was readable and the filesystem was ok enough to copy most of the data off. <\/p>\n
Today, I headed to the Apple store to see what they would do. Result: they take my computer for 5-8 days for diagnostics and repair. From my perspective, that really really sucks. Dell is MUCH MUCH better if service and support is important to you. Whenever I bought a Dell, I always paid for the next day, at home service. Use it once and it’s worth it. When my screen developed a “line” in it, a Dell guy was standing on my door step the next morning with a new one. When my dell hard drive failed, DHL delivered a new one by 10am the next day with a return slip for the old one. That is called service.<\/p>\n
What Apple provides is an annoyance, not service. In retrospect, probably should have bought a new harddrive from the internet someplace, had it overnighted, and replaced it myself. Would be faster and less annoying.<\/p>\n
Luckily, I hadn’t given away my old computer yet so I’m not completely stuck for a week.<\/p>\n
Update: Fred Dushin claims it’s due to “bad karma” for installing Linux on the Mac. Not sure I buy that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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