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…. fastest to go to the repair shop, that is?

Yesterday I took delivery of a brand new MacBook Pro – it has the uprated 7200 rpm drive, but it’s not the brand spanking duo core model. It was, after all, an eBay purchase.

The box was sealed so I revelled in unwrapping it (although I didn’t take photos of each and every stage as some do – been there, done that, just get me to the machinerey ASAP, I say!). I then set it to migrate from my iBook and left it for a while. Once it had done its thing, I fired it up and realised that I’d migrated from the wrong partition (I’d moved across my music/DJ only partition. Oops!). So, I popped in the OS X 10.4.whatever install disk with the aim of wiping and starting again.

The CD went in a little ‘heavily’ then made a bit of a strange noise as it span. a noise that got louder as it span even more, almost shaking the machine with its ferocity. It felt like there was a cutting disk inside there (like you get on a grinder) judging by the noise, and was working about as well as a cutting disk might inside a MacBook Pro. After many fruitless minutes of it spinning but not mounting the disk, I switched it off and tried to eject the disk at bootup. Then the machine failed to boot *or* eject the disk. Nice.

Moments later I was on the phone to Apple to register the product and then immediately get it in for repair.

For a few fleeting moments, yesterday, I had a MacBook Pro but now it’s in the sick bay – I don’t even have a photo of it. It’s almost as if it never existed!