The last two days have not been kind to Casa De Barrett.
Last week I told you how my laptop is giving me commercials to buy a new version of itself. Well, this week my husband's iMac up and died. The thing is barely three years old, and two days ago it started coughing up blood. He took it into the Mac store this morning and -- yes, it's dead, Jim. Oh, they could fix it. And fix it. And fix it. Because they really don't know what's wrong with it. It might be this or it might be that, and each this or that costs at least $200. Hubby figures it's better to cut our losses and toss the thing and get the next best Mac. (I have to add this is the is briefest Mac-lifespan either of us have had with a Mac product. We are NOT pleased.)
Then last night, we thought we'd sit down and watch an hour of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, which we just got. (Love that show!) Hello! The DVD was working fine on Monday night. We watched the last three episodes of A Fine Romance (with Judi Dench and the wonderful Michael Williams), although I will admit I was suspicious when I turned the machine off and the little digital screen actually said OFF, which it had never done before.
When I went to turn it on last night I thought maybe the remote's batteries were dead. So I changed them with the remote for the old VHS/DVD machine (the DVD player died in that machine, too--and honest, we aren't all that hard on our DVD players).
I am very annoyed. I hate that these things died without warning. And I hate that I have to now replace the machine that replaced the last machine. (Maybe I should go back to watching VHS tapes--that thing will probably go on forever.)
Which one of your machines has recently snuffed it?
RE: imac
ReplyDeleteHi Lorraine:
I think that Apple programs their computers to die or have something go wrong with them just after the 3-year warranty is up.
I had an ibook and within 3 months the mother board died. Apple replaced it. I wanted a new one as my intuition told me it will go again. Well it did and it died just after the 3 year extra warranty I bought. They refused to fix it.
I love macs...I almost...almost was never going to buy a mac again. But I did.
Sorry you are having troubles.
Happy writing!
Carolanne Nadeau, Librarian and cozy mystery lover.
Ye gods! Your machines seem to have it in for the both of you. My condolences. My wireless Logitech mouse got sick last week. I've had problems with it from nearly the first day I got it -- the trap door that covered the batteries NEVER worked right. It simply would NOT close. So ... Scotch tape to the rescue. But after nearly 3 years, the wheel to scroll (mostly) stopped working & highlighting something and trying to move it to another place worked only part of the time or dropped what I was moving -- usually half-way -- and that became a major pain-in-the-posterior. So, since there was a good deal on a wireless mouse at the local Office Depot, I went shopping. Only ... the best deal mouse was so tiny, it nearly disappeared in my hand! The new mouse cost $12 dollars more, but works astoundingly well. I only hope your new 'toys' work so well. (P.S. This is the time to buy DVD players, at least around here. Several stores are running very good specials on them. Hope that's so where you are, too!)
ReplyDeleteMy DVD recorder does not record, nor does it play consistently. I can watch a movie and darn if that movie will stop playing after 45 minutes and nothing in this world will get that DVD to finish the movie until the next day.
ReplyDeleteI simply refuse to buy a DVD recorder/player. I now watch my movies on my laptop.
Sorry you're having issues with your Mac and DVD player.