mmm Mac Problems

I had a bit of a scary experience last night. I sat down to the computer after having avoided it the previous day (long depressing horrible making Han miserable/poor story there) and I smelt burning which after a while it got a lot worse. I look down at my laptop and out of the corner of my eyes there’s a small orange flame coming from the corner of my laptop where the power supply plugs in. I ripped it out and unplugged it from the wall but boy was I scared!

If my parents hadn’t bought me a stand for my birthday I surely would have set fire to my beautiful desk. (I made it!)

So today we went to the apple store - thankfully there’s one nearby now otherwise we’d have had to go up to London! Christmas eve I wasn’t expecting much but we were very lucky in that there wasn’t that much traffic or indeed people.

We went into the apple store and managed to get an appointment with a genius for fifteen minutes time! I told him about the power supply and that I’d been having issues with my battery for a while.

1. Its health suddenly went from 80% to 20%.
2. It doesn’t recognise the charger sometimes.
3. It cuts out at 40% battery when not using the charger.

He seemed to fill out a lot of paper work and tada new battery and power supply. I hadn’t noticed my battery was swollen and we all know what happens to swollen mac batteries! :S My macs from the batch that had all those problems a few months ago - I thought I’d escaped it but apparently not!

With regards to the charger the plastic had split and wires were protruding the new one I’ve got has a longer wire bit so here’s hoping it doesn’t split like my old one, if yours is split and fraying - get a new one!

But its all fixed now under warranty and yay for the three years coverage I took out!

After my little bit of excitement for the day its my time to say Merry Christmas to everybody and hope you have a good one tomorrow. Me I’ve seen the turkey for tomorrow and its the same size as the joint we had on Sunday for two, tiiiiny! Christmas is a sad affair in our family, its just the three of us - but we do buy each other awesome presents - I hope my rents like theres!