MacBook Pro and the wonder that is the Migration Assistant
My MacBook Pro came back from repair having suffered a ‘logic board failure’. I don’t know what that is, but it sounds serious and ghastly. Thanks to the wonderful Migration Assistant in OS X, it took me all of half an hour to get my applications, email, settings and documents back onto the machine via a FireWire link-up with the iMac. Windows was never easy in that regard.
tags: computers, hardware, logic board, MacBook Pro, Migration Assistant, OS X, repairs, software, WindowsOS X 10.5.3 murdered my Macbook Pro!
Machinery breaks down, it’s a fact of life, but it was Apple’s latest update to OS X (10.5.3) that murdered my Macbook Pro. I tried asking for help from the official forums several days ago, but the prairie winds can still be heard blowing through the support request topic I created. Not one response.
I checked through other ‘Macbook Pro dark screen/black screen/died after software update’ posts, not all but a fair few coming after people had attempted 10.5.3 updates, and tried some of the solutions offered by other Apple customers. I could find no acknowledgement from Apple that it’s screwed up with its own hardware and software interactions—again—or when to expect a solution. Of course, Apple can’t promise a solution until it owns up to the bloody problem in the first place.
tags: 10.5.3, Apple, AppleCare, extended warranty, hardware, Leopard, Microsoft, OS X, software, telephone support, video display errors
