bedeviled mojo slop

Well, Apple Store called this AM and told me to come pick up the sick iMac. It was now better.

WRONG!

I boot the machine and start working and go to backup my data just in case.

CRASH!

I rebooted a few times and even got the 3 bells sound on startup telling me that there was no RAM present. WOW! The iMac was pretty fucked I thought.

Back to the Apple store ... wherein the iMac snubs me and works without failure and I'm left looking like an idiot.

But I played it smart the second time I brought it home and caught photographic evidence of the iMac meltdown as shown hm'yah.

And as illustrated over h'yah.

BUSTED! You are SOOOOOOOOOOO busted iMac!

Yeah, the graphics are very pretty and very NIN-esque, but the machine was obviously still sick. It's like when you're a kid and you take antibiotics for the first time and you throw up even more because you're actually allergic to penicillin and then they put you on amoxycillin instead and you get better.

And that's where we're at ... Apple is now replacing my logic board a 2nd time. They're out a total of roughly $2000 and I'm out a machine for another day or so.

The work authorization lists the following:

STEPS TO REPRODUCE: turn on - use

Oh, that is awesome

Moral of this continuing story ... BUY APPLECARE!