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I... I think I'm jinxed.

My brand new 12" PowerBook appears to be a lemon. Either it's the hard drive, or the ram, or some random combo of Airport Extreme and the 1 Gb ram that MacFixIt think causes a problem, but whatever, I've been getting situations where files can't be opened or closed, then everything freezes and I have to reboot.

And then on reboot the drive won't mount, or it will and it's a bit bust, or I have to run DiskWarrior in target disk mode or something.

So I ran it without the ram for a couple of days, and it seemed to work, but I didn't try the putting-it-in-my-bag thing or putting it to sleep or anything. Then I put the ram back in and it died bigtime.

[Stuff happens here, like it starting in single user mode and entire directories vanishing, and it getting worse and worse.]

All Apple could say was "erase the drive".

Which means I've lost 6 days of work (the time since my last backup) plus my calendars for about a month (the backup didn't work) plus the links I found during that time that I needed and papers I'd downloaded.

Not something I really have time for, and my notes were on papers that took a couple of hours to arrive at the library or a boxfile or two to dig through.

I have a deadlines. I have *things to do*. To not have to reinstall my OS, that's why I bought a Mac. To not have to deal with hardware problems, that's why I waited to rev b.

And, presuming the install works, how am I going to trust the computer now?

I do work on it, I come home from the library, I open it and the drive's gone again? How can I even think about dedicating any time to working on it? To leave myself open to the same problem again, that's just negligent. But to *not* be open is basically to not put any data uniquely on the drive, not ever, not for a tube ride home.

Oh yes, my server hung again this morning. I went over and rebooted it. That took the best part of three hours, to get there, to do that. Seems okay now,

but yknow, I can't figure out why it occurred, and

for christ's sake, universe,

just give me a break, right?