How many geniuses does it take to fix an iMac?
The short answer is 1, but the more complex answer is 2. Unless you count the genius who broke it in the first place (that would be me).
I gotta say I love my ginormous iMac. It's the first desktop computer I've ever had that has and SD Card slot built right in.
A couple of weeks ago, when Tim and I were working on the Unger Family Calendars for 2010, he handed me some photos on the SD Card from his MacBook and I reached up and blindly shoved it into the slot on the side of my monster iMac.
And just like when you slam your locked car door just as you realize you've left the keys inside, I knew I had shoved the card in the wrong slot. Because I didn't actually look, I had shoved it into the DVD drive slot. Dang. That was my first Genius move.
So I've been iMacing without a DVD drive for a couple of weeks. I scheduled a Genius appointment at the Apple store last week, but I never could actually make it into Portland at the appropriate time. So I rescheduled and rescheduled and rescheduled. Wheeee!
My second Genius move was rescheduling the appointment for today. During lunchtime. I knew I'd be downtown anyway, so what the heck, I'll just stop by the mall and drop it off and they'll take it in the back for a couple of hours and then I'll bring it home.
Ooops that. Today is the next to the last shopping day before Christmas. Every parking space within a 3 block radius was taken. I had to lug the 27 inch iMac down stairs, into elevators, across streets, and through the whole habitrail system that is Pioneer Place.
That was the tough part. The easy part was when the guys who get paid to be geniuses spent longer documenting the problem than actually fixing it. It took the tall guy in the kilt holding the iMac and the short guy in the glasses with a piece of packing tape about 2 minutes to extract the SD Card.
YAY! I was their second SD Card extraction today, so they seem to be getting quite good at it. I didn't have to leave the iMac behind, I only had to lug it into the store and back out again.
So the real answer is 3. 3 geniuses, 'cause I had to break it in the first place.
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This cracks me up. It reminds me of when I somehow dropped system files from my Mac in the trash and had to go to the Apple Store to buy some sort of Emergency Hard Drive Recovery software. I don't even remember specifically what I bought. I just remember that it was during the holidays and Apple was sticking "Lucky You" stickers on items that were paid for.
Emergency Hard Drive Recovery and Lucky You are not synonymous… unless they meant it in a hipster irony sort of way.
Those iMacs are awesome, by the way. I have a Mini and I love it.