I probably push a laptop further than most people. I write code, write research papers, run virtual instances, and a whole lot more. At the core of this is my trusty laptop. To me, a good laptop just fits around me, and I don’t even notice it is there. And so, a few days after moving house, I shut the lid and went off to buy some paint, and when I came back, I opened it again and was faced with:
Purple haze
It is a classic graphic card problem, but probably a problem with the pesky connector that connects to the display. Luckily, I eventually managed to connect the laptop to an external display (not an easy task, as it involved entering keystrokes with nothing appearing on the screen — I hope Apple can add a hotkey for mirroring screens, sometime soon).
The problem with the graphics just added to the woes of my time with this laptop. First, the keyboard went, and luckily Apple replaced it. But since then the whole keyboard experience, the continual whine of the fans, and the constant battery drain meant it just wasn’t a good experience.
And so my only focus was to get a full Time Machine backup and make sure it didn’t just give up completely before I migrated…
