Miss my imac :(

Not complaining,, so dont any of you windoze trolls jump on this, my imac I got for christmas (hey a man's got to get himself something right?) well the Harddrive died Called apple and spoke to a curteous tech and we tried to get it to boot and then he found the closest Apple Store for me, 11 miles away and I took her there this evening. Got to play with the new macintel machine while I waited btw, seems ok but I love my G5. Anyway they ordered a new harddrive and told me it should be ready by friday so untill then Im stuck back in a wondoze world. Its a cold dreay place btw But for other newbes to apple such as me I'll let you know my thoughts on applecare and report back on the return of my baby hopefully by friday.

ohh the pain the pain ,,,, lol
I hate my pen4
This is as bad as waiting for the imac to be shipped in the first place,, Ohh btw, for newbes like me, DONT FORGET TO BACKUP YOUR FILES YOU WANT TO PROTECT! I did so when it returns with the new harddrive I can just reinstall everything. (Learned that from 7 different pc's and was reinforced from reading the forums here

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