Mac Repairs

I had my computer literally catch fire earlier this year (I have/had a PC) and I found that it was easier to get a new one than try to restore the old one. But mine was pretty old. My brother's more of a computer guy than I am (he worked for Sun for a while studied computer science etc.) and he said it was just best to get a new one.

I assume you mean the hard drive got fried right?

The only bad thing is that I lost all of the files and had on there. It would cost me a couple of hundred dollars to transfer them to a disk. So far I haven't needed them. But my experience was all with Walnut Creek and I didn't find any particularly good deals.

Sometimes when a store gives a better deal on price we pay for it in terms of service, but it might be worth it. I took mine a few years ago to a really run down looking shop in Concord and they fixed my problem for a while (until my computer caught fire earlier this year). So it might be worth the inconvenience in terms of money--if they fix the problem anyway.

On an unrelated note, I did something really crazy with my keyboard about a few years ago. I heard on the radio that you could put your keyboard in your dishwasher and wash it that way, so long as you let it dry after wards. So I had this really icky keyboard that I was really icky, so I did it and it turns out that it works. Well, sort of anyway. It didn't do any damage to my keyboards operation but it didn't completly clean it either, it still looked more yellowish than white. (By the way, I don't remember the details about it, so I would recommend replicating my experiment.)