The mind of the Great T. indeed thinks like that of the feebler hobbit!Timeline wrote:Frodo
I know this is not a great idea and requires some quick rehab but it's an idea.
What if you charged another mac on your credit card and at the same time Apple to deliver an RA for repair on your current machine and send it in immediately with a clean main drive. Then, using all of your existing drives get going on the new machine and make sure everything works properly. Near the end of the 14 day period return the computer on their return policy replacing the original clean drive it came with. That gives you at leas a week and a half of loaner and a chance to see if the problem is systemic with the machine your using.
Just a thought.

It actually is a GREAT idea, T. The only place where I get stuck is where returning the newest "replacement" computer is involved. If it's senseless to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, then it's even more senseless to return a perfectly good Mac!

Thing is, a third computer would need interfaces and RAM as well, so there's no real middle ground-- all or nothing. Hmm.
You know, if all my clients would just pay in full in a timely fashion there'd be ever so much less to worry about!