great timing for a hardware failure
30 May
Here’s a little lesson, folks. When your computer gives you this:
Do not hesitate to take it in to the Apple Store (because you need your laptop for homework and/or can’t bear to be without it)… or else it will eventually lead to this:
Then, when you take it in to the Apple Store, they will run some tests and come up with this:
(I really wasn’t supposed to see this, but I did, and I secretly took a picture. I really hope this doesn’t get anyone in trouble and/or fired, sorry! All in good fun.)
Anyway, my MacBook Pro is now at the store, waiting for a new logic board. It’s not like I have 2 videos to produce for class. It’s not like I have 3 papers to write. It’s not like finals are fast approaching. It’s not like MY LAPTOP IS MY LIFE or anything. Oh wait, IT IS.
yer twisteh kown… :(
I’m never letting you go.
it’s ok, this is why ucsd has labs full of mac pros
You’re not having good luck with hardware lately! Hope it turns around.
Cool you use blackle!!! :D
blackle may (or may not) make a difference on an old monitor that use a tv-type cathode ray tube. i realize these are still in use.
i’d have to be a physicist to be absolutely certain, but blackle may actually use more energy (but not significantly more) on an lcd screen like on your laptop (and all laptops.) first of all, the energy the backlight uses (which is much more relevant than blackle) is affected by the settings in os/x, not the images or colors on the screen.
the images are formed by turning on colors, not light, on lcd, just like the numbers on your watch (unless it’s mechanical.) to make a white screen on lcd, you do nothing. to make a black screen, you turn the pixels on- it’s the opposite of how old monitors and tv’s work, firing electrons to activate a phosphorescent coating.
in short: using blackle on a laptop won’t hurt anything, but if you’re doing it to save even a negligible amount of energy, it’s very silly. you’re better off fiddling with the backlight settings, which not only save energy, but make the battery last longer. thus, saving energy on laptops should make a *noticeable* difference.
i just picked my Macbook pro up from the Apple store after having the logic board replaced. it (i think) was causing the exact same kernel panics as yours, with the lines on start-up and everything. did you find out what made the logic board go bad?
tubejay – I don’t regularly use Blackle, I pulled it up for this photo because I needed a quick, dark background because that is what the pink line shows up best on. Interesting point though, I didn’t know that about the new screens.
kenneth – The replacement the Apple Store did for me definitely fixed the kernel panic issue, but occasionally the pink line still appears. I have to take it in again, eventually I’m sure.
thank you for posting this because i just got that line googled it and now i am rushing to the mac store tomorrow cause this is wayyyy to scary laptop=life for me. Did you have to pay a lot to get it fixed?
Emily: It didn’t cost me anything to get it repaired because I have AppleCare, the extended warranty.