Mac is cool or not?

At the worst possible times things happen… so was for me two days ago.

In the morning I worked without a problem, went for lunch and when I came back my Macbook Pro didn’t come out of sleep mode anymore :-(
It’s a Mac right, they don’t break! So tried several things to reboot, but I just heard the startup sound but nothing more happened. Called John as he might have an idea, so we tried several other things, but no heartbeat in that laptop anymore…

Two hours later, went to the Apple shop and let their expert look at it. Their diagnose was the graphic card of the laptop broke and it was a common problem lately! Apple recognizes the problem and offers a free replacement and fix. So that is pretty cool…

The problem is I can’t really without laptop and it would take several days (a week) to get it fixed. The Apple store couldn’t give me a replacement laptop for a few days, so my only options were to use my Mac Mini (Server) or buy a new laptop.

Luckily I’ve a Mac Time Capsule that takes a backup of my systems every hour, so I finally decided to buy a new laptop and hoped for the best with the backups.

I must say, Time Capsule is awesome. I fired up my new laptop, got to the latest release of OSX and run the Migration Assistant (under Utilities). You tell the wizard you want to restore your machine from your Time Capsule and some time later (it had to copy a lot of GB) I was up-and-running again!

The things to remind;
- Make sure you have backups, the maximum I would lose is an hour work
- Make sure you remember the passwords of your Time Capsule, network etc
- Create a new Admin User, it makes it easier to import the users

So is Apple cool?

It was not so cool my laptop broke, but I get it fixed for free and the backup strategy with Time Capsule works flawlessly… and it’s nice to have a new laptop as well ;-)