On
Not quite as offline as i expected - good. So here’s what happened:
On sunday i was in a casual scholomance run with my lvl 59 rogue in a pickup group of ten when my ibook suffered from random slowdowns. The symptoms seemed eerily familiar. An incomplete diskdump later it became clear that my two-month-old harddrive was quite dead, again. Seriously, these apple care protection plans might seem a bit expensive, but considering the trouble i’m going through with apple’s hardware lately i wouldn’t go without them. Interestingly the trouble just started one week out of the default 1-year warranty - just a coincidence i guess but without apple care i’d be royally fucked at this point.
As a sidenote, when bringing my ibook into repairs i had a chance to play around with a m… mouse for a few minutes and it’s actually even worse than i anticipated.