Life without a laptop – Living from my iPhone

Well the inevitable has happened. My laptops busted once more.

I have to live my life off of my iPhone for the next couple of days trying to get on with life as normal as my MacBook is off at the Apple store awaiting repair.

For those of you who want to know, I currently own a late 2008 unibody Macbook Pro. A purchase I thought would be a good investment to compliment my life at university and first years of work in general. Purchased in October 08 and being completely new to the ‘Apple experience’ I decided that I will start with a clean slate and set myself up for the following couple of years that I will own it. Boy did I have it coming to me.

In the first 6 months everything was going well. I got used to the OSX very quickly and being an ‘advanced user’ I started tweaking and fiddling, altering the system, it’s behaviour and adding new programs to make my life easier and my experience even better. Then the poo poo hit the fan. As I was working hard to complete a deadline for university my laptop display decided to give up the ghost. Within 6 months a hardware fault occured. So external display kept me going for a month before I could spare the time to fix it. After much hassle, countless trips to service centres raised stress levels and falling respect for Apple I finally got my life (sorry laptop) back. A logic board, display and airport card later I was back doing what I normally do.

Did it end there? No it didn’t. I will summerise all the problems to save time for the last few people who can be bothered to read this but this laptop has an overheating issue, display flicker issue, USB audio problem, and now to top it all off the ‘super’ drive is up poo poo creak without a paddle.

So much for ‘it just works’. Ok rant over. For those of you that are still with me I congratulate you and thank you.

So what to do? I have unwillingly been set the task of living my life from my iPhone. Everything I do on my mac I have to somehow replicate it on my iPhone or through other means as I do not have another laptop and no money to buy a temporary one.

I can kiss goodbye my iPhone battery whilst I try to remain as productive as possible. Heck I may even get some jobs that have gathered dust on the bottom of my todo list done!

So to round up. I will live the next couple of days from my iPhone and I will report back on my blog how I get on with various obstacles I encounter and the solutions.

Me hooked on technology and my laptop too much you say? Definately :/

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 at 5:48 pm and is filed under About Me.

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