MacDeath

My Macbook Pro is on the fritz.  What an inopportune time.  I used it mainly to surf the internet and to record music via MIDI.  I have weathered the storm well so far, because I will not panic.  I can get by without it.  My Macbook 2005 still is working, and I am typing on it at the moment.  I still have Finale, Digital Performer, and Toast on it running 10.6.8.  It has proven to be a mule.  Evidently it has outlived a late 2011 Macbook Pro.  Does that say something about Tim Cooke?  I have yet to travel to Raleigh or Durham to the Apple Store to have it diagnoised.  When my iBook died, I spent over $500.00 trying to get it fixed.  I had the Apple Store replace the hard drive, and it didn't fix the logic board failure.  Years later some smart man figured out it was one little solder joint.  I thought about getting it fixed, but Apple no longer supports their products.  Instead they engineer in a death date to keep you buying.  It would be cheaper just to buy a new Mac, and probably that is what I will do.  I have to decide, again, what to buy.  "I went to the White House, again, to meet the President."  Because I was using a laptop as a desktop, it really doesn't make sense to buy another Macbook Pro, especially now that I have learned that they quit.  It is possible it may only be a dead internal hard disk, but the diagnosis process of a Mac is a bit sketchy.  First you have to make an appointment for a Genius to see you.  If you miss the appointment by a few minutes, they cancel you.  It was not a pleasant process when the iBook died, and now I remember it again.  "I went to the White House, again, to meet the President."  "Guess I will be going to the Apple Store again to meet the President."