Hard Drive Failure on My MacBook

I’ve been pretty lucky with my (original) MacBook.  I never had the issues of overheating etc. that plagued others with the first Intel MacBooks.  Yes, my white case has yellow spots where my hands rest beneath the keyboard, but heck, no biggie… that just means I use it.

In the last couple months, since updating to Leopard, I’ve also had the issue with closing the lid and my MacBook going to sleep meaning it couldn’t reconnect to my wireless.  A REAL pain, and EXTREMELY frustrating… so I’ve just left the lid open.

Well, one morning I came downstairs and my screen was frozen and it turns out the hard drive had failed.   Apparently another common occurence that I hadn’t hade the privilege of experience… until now.

So, I hopped over to TigerDirect, bought an 80gig 2.5″ SATA drive for $65, and now my lovely MacBook is up and running again.  And this time, I know what software I actually use, so I won’t be polluting it with a bunch of stuff I thought was cool but didn’t ever run.  Firefox and Skype are it, so far.

And I have a full backup on a NAS with Memeo, so just a couple weeks of usage lost.  And my wireless reconnect problem went away.  Woohoo!

However, if anyone ever tells you that Apple computers are more than just computers, just laugh it off.  Slick… yes.  Cool… yes.  But they are still error and crash-prone beasts that have hardware failures.  For me, the only reason I like having it is that it is a nice form-factor, and I can test out Mac OS X apps to learn from their UI design for my work.  It’s still just a damn computer.

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