Blogging Roller

My two year old Powerbook G4 has been behaving badly for a couple of months now. Startups slowed to 20 minutes and some applications take forever to startup. I called Apple about it several times, but they were unable to help because the diagnostics showed nothing was wrong. So I was actually kind of happy when I started up the Mac OS Disk Utility and saw the message:

"This drive has reported a fatal hardware error to Disk Utility. If the drive has not failed completely then backup as much as you can and replace it with a working drive."

Apple is sending a "dispatch" box so I can send my Powerbook in for service. They told me that the turnaround time is normally 5-7 days, but may take 10 due to back-to-school work load.

So now, I'm laptopless, living full-time in GNOME on Solaris/X64 and thinking that now would be a real nice time for Apple to rev those Mac Book Pros. According to the rumor mongers over on Apple Insider, new Mac Book Pros may be coming out next week.