I am leaving for a two and a half month stay in Japan in three weeks. I’ll need some sort of laptop while I’m there, for photos, blogging, and communication. I do, as readers of this blog might know, have a 300mhz Clamshell iBook running Tiger, but 300mhz is awfully slow. It definitely needs a [...]

The MacBook is now back in my hands, again.
Last week, on the 6th, I got it back a first time, supposedly “repaired”. Sure, the keyboard was new. Wasn’t long before the machine shut down again unexpectedly. So it went back to repairs.
This time, Apple has changed the “heatsink assembly”, but my MacBook is still the [...]

I am ashamed to say that I bit the bullet and went to the Ginza Store’s Genius Bar and dropped my MacBook for repairs. But let me explain why I changed my mind…