In a recent night, I really, really wanted my Macbook C2D to be less noisy. Even though it is not my primary workstation the permanent high-pitch humming made it near impossible to get any decent work done.Thanks to ifixit.com it took me a mere 2h to disassemble, clean and reassemble my MB. The process taught me a decent humbleness before those who do this for a living – this computer is definitely _not_ built with frequent modification in mind.
If only I had found a any dust to clean out, the work might have been worth the effort. In the two+ years of heavily working with the MB (also in potentially “dirty places” like couches, beds and cars [pun intended]), there was close to no dirt accumulation. Either that’s due to a really good design or I can easily start to mess my apartment a little more up.
Anyway, two screws will never find their way back into the MB. One is lost due to the bolt thread being fragged by unscrewing, the other I just forgot to put back to where it came from. Well, what good (or bad) can such a tiny screw do?
At least the MB hasn’t become louder in the process.
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A co-worker just walked up on me and told me the great success story of his new Apple product: The Apple Mybook NAS.
Probably you are now wondering like I did. Let me re-tell you the story. It went like this:
“Yesterday I bought the the Mybook NAS (*cough* Mybook? Why didn’t I get the memo from Apple, I thought I read the news..). It’s such a great product! It worked out of the box, no strings attached – and even using Windows (note: which is of course the only OS he uses)! I even use the built-in backup mechanism – there was only a little trouble, because I wanted to use it on my second computer as well, but it didn’t ship with a second licence. But Apple is quite nice, after my complaint they sent me another key right away (*cough* Licence keys for Timemachine instances?..). However, my new Apple Mybook NAS works so great, I now consider becoming part of the family and buy myself a Mac. Of course I will install Windows XP, because I consider that to be the better OS.”
This is how the story went. If you wonder what the new Apple Mybook NAS looks like, I took the liberty of asking him for a picture. Enjoy(;
- The new Apple Mybook NAS
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