Barbra is unwell
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I think it’s the excitement of having come in to London with me every day for the last week, but Barbra, my iBook is clearly unwell this evening.
She seems to be having some kind of a disco thing going on, with her screen overlaid three times on top of itself and a hundred horizontal bars racing up and down the picture. The computer equivalent of a migrane, poor thing.
I presume this is the fabled iBook logic board problem that has already befallen two others in the office. Only trouble is, it seems to be somewhat intermittent. She’s been doing it for an hour now, but earlier she was fine, then all headachy then hazy again.
She’d better not embarass me in the service centre. I don’t want to take her in for a routine check-up and find out it was all hypochondria the moment they stick a probe up her output port.
I’d also rather like her to be working properly again by the time I go off on holiday. Not that I’ll be taking her with me.
Bizarrely, I can see through the haze that she has just popped up a reminder: ‘Issue analysis, MacUser lab. Wednesday 14 July, 14:30pm’.
Poor dear. She’s clearly going soft in the head.
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July 26th, 2004 at 10:37 pm
Ah yes. iBook logic board problem indeed. Quite spectacular, isn’t it? Thankfully now, though, Apple has admitted the problem, so getting a replacement should be much easier (plenty of info at http://www.apple.com/uk/support/ibook/faq/ ). After much legal wrangling
July 27th, 2004 at 9:57 pm
You are amasing. Somehow you manage to make technology sound overtly sexual. Not many people can do that.