My 3.5-year-old Macbook Pro went on the disabled list Wednesday.
Symptoms: Normal start up, but then, as the blue screen and desktop icons appeared,
so did the spinning beach ball of death…and a queasy stomach.
Interior sirens wailing, I rushed to my not-too-far-away Apple Store where, amid dozens of milling i-enthusiasts, the patient was taken into the back room, and I was told to go home and wait. Two hours later I got the news. “It’s a severe hard disk charley horse. Maybe even a full quadriceps tear,” the Apple Genius said with great sympathy. This made sense to me; I had noticed, over the past couple of months, a not-so-subtle limp and an intermittent tendency to be slower than normal on ground balls to the backhand. Continue reading “Mac Crash”