So now not only did my logic board fry itself on Monday afternoon, the local Apple store — the only one in a two hour driving radius — was closed until today for remodeling.
When I arrived there shortly before opening time, I joined an actual crowd of us geeks hanging around the front of the store. The employees streamed out of the back rooms on the dot of 10:00 and greeted us with applause.
And so, I am now happy with the next incarnation of my computer on my lap. One lesson I have learned from this is: always back up your system to an external source!
I have been backing up my laptop with Time Machine to an external, portable disk drive. That is what saved me. I could rebuild my system with all of my programs and documents intact. If I had backed the thing up to another sector of my hard disk, like I think a lot of people do, it would still have required several more days and several more hundred dollars to retrieve the data from the old disk drive.
So I finish out the week, happy and self-righteous. I have to quit that latter emotion…
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