Flop Eared Mule A Country Music Death Beast and Worker in the Dylan Industrial Complex | Sydney, Australia | Est. 2004

Just rang the service centre, poor eMac has been in there since the 5th and has NOT EVEN BEEN LOOKED AT YET. Boo hiss sob!

Thats the thing I hate about macs - if one of my pcs has a cough or a hickup I pull it apart and fix it - slap in a new part whatever. If I want to upgrade my pc I just get a cheap part and slap it in - simple and cheap.

mac shops sell exactly the same ram as for PCs but 200% dearer. And most mac shops are rude.

Bully for you but if I had a PC and it simply wouldn't power up at all (or any other problem) I would not be able just to open it up and slap in a new part. I would still have to take it to the shop, and all along I would be the owner of a PC. Ick. The price is too high.

Anita O'Day or Lucinda would not own a mac.

This blog has a two anti-Mac comment lifetime limit, which this commenter has now reached. Further offensiveness will be disemvoweled.

is that a v or a b?

Disclaimer: I should admit that this househould was (over my dead body) one of the first to get an all-in-one eMac years ago for the Graphic Design daughter. It now sits in the shed - unusable and un-upgradable still goes but.

Now we have a brand (over my dead body) new iMAC with external drive and Wacom pad etc for the animator/film maker - the only good thing about it is the random play set on Bob's entire collection. (sometimes parents can have wins)

I was an early adaptor of a Apple MAC Network at a workplace in the early 80s and I have amongst my nostalgia collection in the shed an early B&W mac lappy.

Don't say I haven't paid my dues - dude.

Well it appears mine is unsalvagable which is utterly fucked and a total personal disaster. But, please, by all means keep trolling away if it makes you happy - dude.

Sorry to hear about the computer.

I'm not trolling - well not now anyway. Its rare to have a computer which is "unsalvagable" if its hardware then a few parts might be stuffed but its largely modualr solots wont be stuffed.

If you mean the data is unrecoverable then that is possible. Although in theory even very bad disk crashes can rescue data - BUT the problem is it is very very expensive. If it is data that say is a years work then it is often worth getting a quote from a real fair dinkum high tech recovery place. They may charge you for the quote and estimation

I meant to say - if it is hardware they say is stuffed insist on getting the computer back - don't let them keep it and salvage the ok parts - and there will be loads of ok parts.

I'm not trying to talk down to you just trying to be clear and help.

Heh. I should say my outburst of petulance was a little preemptive. I have a provisional diagnosis -- buggered capacitors which in turn bugger the logic board which would cost $1000 to replace which obviously you wouldn't bother doing. I hope to have this confirmed today, I suppose there is a chance it is is something less serious. He seemed to think hard drive wouldn't necessarily be affected.

That is good advice about getting the thing back.

Sorry to be a pest but $1,000 repair sounds extraordinary to me - even for an apple.

Is it a laptop or a imac?

a brand spanking new 20" iMac is around $1400.

A logic board is a traditional apple name for what is called in a PC a motherboard. (A top of the range new motherboard for my desktop would cost around $180.)

I'm assuming yours is a laptop - there have been in the past some "recall" issues with "logic boards" do a search or see here:
http://www.apple.com/au/support/ibook/faq/

Before you leap into a expensive decision on fixing or fuxing contact the Sydney Apple Users Group - http://homepage.mac.com/sydamug/

Apple Uers groups are usually loyal but highly critical nerdy Apple fans - a bit like Bobcats.

Neither. It is an eMac (G4, 2005). The $1000 was for a logic board and I guess repair costs, he said this is what it typically runs to and didn't go into details. But it hasn't been confirmed this is the problem, I think he just wanted to tell me something because they've had it for 2 weeks without even looking at it and I keep ringing them! And will continue to do so.

I am feeling slightly less fatalistic about it now than I was last night. Of course if it does cost that or anything like it naturally it would not be worth doing v. the cost of a new one.

Don't worry, I have been doing nothing but googling about it. I really just have to contain my anxiety until I get confirmation.

Lucinda wouldn't own a mac?
Your mate FXavier is dellusional.
PC's are office equipment.

Go back to the office Sonny.