7:11 PM - The iMac is borked
So I had a hard drive failure in my Mac today. I looked into upgrading the drive in the iMac previously. It involves using suction cups and some other fun tricks to get the display out. I thought I could do it, but it would be a real pain in the butt. Thus, I decided to get apple to do it for me. I hadn't bought extended apple care for it, so it was a bit of a sticker shock at the store. However, apple did cut labor costs since the system was "so new". I bought it February 2008. I gatherered there have been problems with 250 GB WD drives put into those Macs. He was not at all surprised the system had a drive failure. The new drive will be a 320GB disk so at least it's a slight bump in disk space. I've been running on 11GB of fre space for awhile.
Call it laziness, but after the 52 screws in the iBook I upgraded, I just haven't had the joy to do this one. I saw my old boss destroy an iMac trying to replace a hard drive. The LCD was destroyed. At 1200 dollars for a new lowend model, I just didn't feel like it was a good call to try it. I think this is the first time I've paid for a hardware repair ever.
The worst part is that my mac will be at the apple store for a week. The service rep was very nice though. It did take us 30 minutes to speak to someone; we had an appointment too. At least he didn't charge me for labor. At that price, I would have tried it myself.