mac issues
So the whole new powerbook deal isn't so smooth sailing.... and I'm not just talking my having to relearn shortcuts. I'm talking serious phukage on this powerbook.I turned this puppy on Thursday and barely did much more than go through the welcome process, set up my email and connect it to the internet before I carefully closed the top (put it in sleep mode) and took it over to my friend Matt's house, where we had fun geekin out, see?
But as soon as got over there & opened it up to show him, there was this part of the top right of the LCD where all the pixels were all messed up. (no photo of it as we thought it was just some fluke first time thing?!) And then when I tried to do anything - force quit or bring up finder or anything, it was totally frozen. aahh!! So we powered down and then restarted and all was fine - phew!
We had a fun night geekin out & Matt showed me lots of great new things on my new baby. All worked well for those next 2 hours and I left & my laptop stayed over at Matt's that night since I went to the BoTH for a show & didn't want to leave it in my car. Then I went back Friday morning to pick it up and geek out some more with Matt, but as soon as I arrived & went over to my laptop & woke it up, and tried to open Mail - it freaked!! and the whole screen did the screwy pixel thing again. This time I took a pic:
Now here's where it got really bad and thank goodness I was at Matt's, who's an experienced & longtime Mac user so he could help me try a few different things. So first when the screen is looking like that - we try to do something, see if finder comes up, or try force quit - but NOTHING works. It's frozen again!
So we shutdown - power back up and then tried to get into the System area to repair permissions. As soon as we do - it gets stuck and freezes again. OY!
At this point, Matt finds his OSX Hardware repair CD (something like that) and we did some stuff off of there - and then used Disk Warrior to further do some cleaning up. All that seems to work & I'm good to go for more geekin out with Matt the rest of the day.
After running a few errands, I came home Friday and didn't crack open my new Mac at all (everything's still on my PC, so it's easy just to hop back on here) until today.
Today I open it up & it has funky pixel stuff AGAIN!!!
and totally frozen up - so I powerdown - and start it up again.... and got this screwy pixel thing happening:
along with an alert message that it couldn't read the disc in the drive, because I had left a blank disc in there I was going to burn something onto. So I ejected the CD... but after it came out, the system was frozen again. ARG!!!
:*( I'm sad - and I don't know if I should try to pack it all up & take it down to the Mac store for a new one or what!? I mean, I feel like I just got a lemon here, ya know!?
I've literally only used my new powerbook for a total of 10 hours in 2 days and it's already screwed up majorly like 5 times!!! Total bummer!!!
All I know is, I leave Tuesday and I need to load a lot of files on here before I leave... and I won't have Matt the power mac user to save the day... crap. crap. CRAP!
