iPod go thud then click, click, click.

2005-10-25T17:28:40+00:00

Man, color me peeved: The girl just got me a new LCD-equipped iTrip for my 4G iPod 20GB, and what happens? I fumble it from chest level, from which it fell to land flat on its back on a marble floor. No obvious external or cosmetic damage, but I'm hearing an old familiar noise from the hard drive inside.

I guess it's time to exercise the AppleCare on this thing now, too. Are these things all meant to be this fragile? Maybe next time I'll leave it in one of those "iCondom" cases I bought but never use.

Archived Comments

Andrew Heaton
2005-10-26T15:15:29

I HATE the way an iPod will break so easily.

When my last one broke, the "genius" at the apple store actually told me "they're meant to be disposable"

yes, like a hamster or a lighter.

I've banned the Apple Store
l.m.orchard
2005-10-26T16:53:15

Well you know, I regularly light my $1,000,000 cigars with $500 bills and swim in my vault of gold coins. So I can totally see where the genius bar drone was coming from.

No user serviceable fans

2005-10-06T10:54:42+00:00

Grr. Last night, My PowerBook suddenly started making the oscillating, growling noise of a fan with built up crud rattling against the blades. I'd thought it was the hard drive at first, knowing my luck, but I narrowed down the sound to the fans in the back and could make the sound go away by cutting back CPU usage.

Normally, as with all the other machines I have, I'd open the sucker up and clean that out with a q-tip or cotton ball. However, this is still under AppleCare for another year or so, and I doubt they'd look kindly on me pawing around inside this thing yet. But, I really don't want to part with it for most of a week, just so they can ship it to someone with a more official screwdriver and Apple-branded cotton swabs.

Archived Comments

fluffy
2005-10-06T13:15:13

Apple's official policy is that opening a system up and servicing it yourself doesn't void the warranty as long as you don't break it. At least that's the case on desktops and the Mini, and I'd imagine it extends to laptops as well.
M. Quirk
2005-10-06T14:58:01

Also, if it's a minor thing, they can probably do it on-site at either the Learning Center in Ann Arbor, or at the Apple Store in in Novi's 12 Oaks mall.
Andy
2005-10-24T06:06:23

Go to Office Depot and get yourself some air in a can. They call it cleaning duster. The stuff is great for blowing junk out of tight places. You can even freeze stuff with it if you tip the can just right.

It's ozen friendly!

0xDECAFBAD - Tag: repair

iPod go thud then click, click, click.

Archived Comments

No user serviceable fans

Archived Comments