My baby is back!!!
October 1st, 2008
Okay, Apple did redeem themselves from the great iPhone Support Disaster of 2008. Not only did I hear about my laptop earlier than the given date, I heard that it was fixed!
They replaced the daughterboard that houses my power connection. I was excited as I powered it up. I let the fully charged battery run down a little. Then I plugged in the power cable and … a little better, but the same issue I was having before. It would power the laptop, but not charge it. I went to wiggle the cable and noticed that it was kind of dirty. It is my old cable. I grabbed the replacement we bought as a troubleshooting method to my not powering or charging the battery problem, and voila! Now I have a power adapter that will work. I’m sort of glad because it means that we didn’t buy the new power adapter in vain.
I’m now back on my portable, unix laptop. Happiness.