{"id":209,"date":"2006-07-04T00:48:30","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T15:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-07-04\/209"},"modified":"2006-07-04T00:48:30","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T15:48:30","slug":"bought-a-new-macbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-07-04\/209","title":{"rendered":"Bought a New MacBook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\nI like the little Apple iBook I bought<\/span> in 2002 (just before Anthony was\nborn), but the iBooks have a design<\/span> flaw that causes a wire<\/span> leading to the\nscreen's backlight to become frayed and fail. It manifests<\/span> itself with a\n“flaky” backlight that flickers when the screen angle is adjusted, getting\nworse and over the course of days or weeks until the screen just won't come\non anymore.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nIt's a common\nproblem<\/a>.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nMy iBook had this problem while it was still under the extended warranty\nI'd bought, and was fixed, but then started acting up again a few<\/span> months\nago. I was busy<\/span> working on a project<\/span> (that I finished<\/span> today -- more about\nthat later) so I didn't<\/span> want to deal with it, so I literally<\/span> left the iBook\non my desk and never closed the lid or even adjusted the screen. I used it<\/span>\nevery day, but as if it were a desktop<\/span> computer, not a laptop.<\/span>\n\n<\/p>

\n\nNeeding a working laptop for my trip to The States (we're leaving in a\nweek<\/span>; my brother Alan is getting married on the 14th), I decided<\/span> to bite\nthe bullet and get a new<\/span> system. I hope Apple<\/span>'s learned how to make a hinge<\/span>\nproperly, because I bought<\/span> a new<\/span> MacBook<\/a> (one of the new Macs with\nan Intel processor; I can<\/span> even run Windows on it, but, well, that'd be like\ncovering a slice<\/span> of tasty pie with poop, so I won't<\/span> be doing that.)\n\n<\/p>

\n\nI got the “13.3\" white 2.0GHz 80 gig-drive” version with no\nextra memory, and bought two gigabytes of memory from Other\nWorld Computing<\/a> (which arrived from America in an amazing<\/i> three\ndays). I would<\/span> have liked the black version, but that color choice costs\n$150 more, so I opted<\/span> for the standard white.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nI copied my home directory over from the iBook yesterday, and then for the\nfirst time in months, actually shut the iBook cover. Talk about good timing\n... that was it for the iBook! The backlight<\/span> doesn't come on anymore. (I'm\nsure I'll get it fixed once I get<\/span> back from America. UPDATE<\/b>: I eventually<\/span> fixed it myself<\/a>)\n\n<\/p>

\n\nAny must-have recommendations for MacBook software?\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like the little Apple iBook I bought in 2002 (just before Anthony was born), but the iBooks have a design flaw that causes a wire leading to the screen's backlight to become frayed and fail. It manifests itself with a \"flaky\" backlight that flickers when the screen angle is adjusted, getting worse and over the course of days or weeks until the screen just won't come on anymore. <\/p>

It's a common problem. <\/p>

My iBook had this problem while it was still under the extended warranty I'd bought, and was fixed, but then started acting up again [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}