I've been going over to Tom's house most weekends lately to work on BYOND. I bring my Macbook so I can work on the website and/or on Windows stuff using Parallels. Works nicely.
Except that my wife has been complaining that I never leave her with a laptop to use when I'm gone. She's forced to sit and use the desktop machine if she needs the internet while I'm gone, and who wants to be chained to a desk to use a computer? That's so 1990s.
Our old iBook died exactly one year ago (to the day!) due to the Logic Board Failure. It was 3.5 years old, out of warranty, and also no longer eligible for the repair program. Junk. It's sat on the floor in the office for the last year. I've been meaning to harvest the hard drive out of it for use as an external backup drive, and maybe sell the RAM on eBay. Too lazy, and good thing!
Today I decided to search and see if there was any do-it-yourself remedy for the logic board problem. And I was in luck! It turns out the failure is due to cracking in the solder joints between the graphics card and the main board. People had good success if they opened up the machine and inserted some kind of shim between the outer plastic casing and the metal shell protecting the internal components, just under where the graphics card is. I did this, sticking a couple of rectangular metal washers right there, and it worked!
That makes 3 total repairs I've done myself on that machine:
- Replaced bad hard drive (major surgery)
- Replaced cracked display bezel (even more major surgery)
- Inserted shim to fix logic board (outpatient procedure)
Nice. Time to head down to Tom's.
Anyways, now you can hang out with Tom without having the wife complain. That's always a good thing.