I got my PowerBook back from Apple today. Yippee!
Can’t really complain about the turnaround time as I took it in late Monday afternoon to be shipped off.
It’s practically brand new. I got a whole new top case, keyboard, hard drive and hard drive cable. Thus, it literally does feel brand new.
I am in the process of trying to get it set back up for use. That is, when I turned it on the 1st time it was the whole, “Oh, Hi. Welcome to the world of Apple” spiel.
In some ways it’s exciting, and then in others not so much. I haven’t hit any major snags yet, but we’ll see. I still need to figure out where the heck my Dreamweaver disk is.
And I’m not seeing any application stuff (or very little) on my external hard drive, which I’m guessing means I lost my entire Zotero database and Firefox bookmarks. That smack ain’t so funny!
C’mon, people. You’ve read these stories before on the interweb and said to yourself, “I’ll do a better job with backups. I swear I will.” And then you don’t. Well. You can bet that I sure will be in the future! I’ll know where every speck of data is hiding and ensure it gets backed up. Frequently. Regularly.