[Leica] Cheap Sony VAIO = Mac religion

[shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)]

Just October, my wife's macbook drive went south and it wouldn't boot.  
I used disk warrior and it pretty much told us the drive was toast but i 
extracted my wife's home directory onto a USB drive.  ordered a WD 320 
GB 2.5 SATA for $60 (free shipping) from newegg on Sunday, arrived 
Tuesday, by Tuesday night reinstalled OS X and restored her home 
directory, good as new.  Older macs were much harder to replace drives 
and such.

I recorded my effort, DLUX4:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/techie/L1030213.JPG.html

On the right is my old X31 XP computer I bought for graduate school.  
The big twin monitors in the background are my "real" computer, a 64-bit 
4-core 3.2 GHz 8GB frankenstein running Ubuntu.

-rei

H&ECummer wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 10:17:28 -0600
>> From: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Cheap Sony VAIO
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>
>> The point is, if you are not near Mac support, you need to beware or be
>> aware.  It takes a long time  to get them fixed.
>>
>> If you are near an authorized service station, it takes them a long 
>> time to
>> get parts, and then you have to wait until they get around to your 
>> machine.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sonny
>
> I have been holding my comments on this "religious war" but offer this 
> experience on the repair of my I Mac.
> The hard drive failed on a Thursday (first such failure ever on the 
> dozen or so Macs in the family). I took the
> machine to the Apple repair depot on Friday and the I Mac with a new 
> (free of charge Apple Care) hard drive
> was delivered to my house on Monday morning. Point is YMMV depending 
> on where you are. And perhaps
> neither of our service experiences should be taken as the norm.
> Cheers
> Howard
>
>
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