A tiny blip in the continuum

Those of you who read me with any regularity would, by now, be used to my occasional disappearance from this blog. My laptop sprung a show-stopper on me for the third time, after this and this. This time, it was no fault of Apple’s; the problem was a graphics card that had conked prematurely. Apple honored the cost of repairs even though it has run out of its warranty. To say that this MacBook Pro of mine is jinxed is an understatement of the highest order.

But it’s all good now. And somehow after updating to OS X Leopard 10.5.6, even the DVD drive is happily burning discs again when it would plain refuse to do so in the past three months or so.

With a new logic board, new screen and fairly new keyboard and trackpad, I am now typing on what is essentially a brand new laptop.

It took, oh, only all of a year and a half, and all of S$838’s worth of stuff I had to buy as stop-gap measures for this sucker to get its act together. There is peace in my computing world now.

Pui.