delurking at long last
Sheesh, I've been gone for a while. I've been away both for fun reasons (a long sailing trip with D, yay!) and for more annoying ones (feeeling really icky, bleah). But I'm having a very good productive day today, after feeling yucky for over a week, so I'm plowing through all kinds of to-do's on my list.
Apropos of which, as I went through all the junk I have to work on, I noticed some problems that make me fear my iBook laptop may be about to give up the ghost. Its touchpad has stopped working much of the time so that I have to work with a mouse attached, one USB port has gone on the fritz, and its screen display seems to be slowly fading into nothingness. I put it next to my sister's newer iBook a few weeks ago, and her display was much much brighter. Now it looks even worse. I really don't remember having to squint this much to use it before. Anyone know what the life expectancy for my poor iBook might be? I'm pretty sure that getting the display fixed would be so pricey I might as well replace the whole computer, but this is a bad moment moneywise to do that. Also, it irks me on principle that I haven't even gotten 3 years' use out of the thing - it's only 2.5 years old. I don't *need* the increased speed and power of a new machine right at the moment, and the idea of transferring everything to another computer sort of fills me with dread. Any suggestions or advice?
*hugs* to my flist, I see lots of stuff going on with you all!
Apropos of which, as I went through all the junk I have to work on, I noticed some problems that make me fear my iBook laptop may be about to give up the ghost. Its touchpad has stopped working much of the time so that I have to work with a mouse attached, one USB port has gone on the fritz, and its screen display seems to be slowly fading into nothingness. I put it next to my sister's newer iBook a few weeks ago, and her display was much much brighter. Now it looks even worse. I really don't remember having to squint this much to use it before. Anyone know what the life expectancy for my poor iBook might be? I'm pretty sure that getting the display fixed would be so pricey I might as well replace the whole computer, but this is a bad moment moneywise to do that. Also, it irks me on principle that I haven't even gotten 3 years' use out of the thing - it's only 2.5 years old. I don't *need* the increased speed and power of a new machine right at the moment, and the idea of transferring everything to another computer sort of fills me with dread. Any suggestions or advice?
*hugs* to my flist, I see lots of stuff going on with you all!