Mighty Service

So I was having this little problem with my Mighty Mouse: it would scroll every which way but down. And, unfortunately, down is the direction you mostly want to scroll when scrolling is called for.

I looked up all the troubleshooting procedures online and applied them all, to no effect. So this afternoon I toddled over to the Clarendon Apple store and hoped I could get helped without an appointment.

After ascertaining that my description of my problem was indeed accurate, the helpful guy at the Genius bar asked the magic four-word question: "Do you have AppleCare?"

Why yes, yes I do. Five minutes later I walked out with a brand new Mighty Mouse.

AppleCare: buy it. Worth every penny; it's already more than paid for itself.

Resurrected!

Oh how nice. An hour at the Clarendon Apple Store and presto: the iMac, he lives!

Mind you, I lost a day and a half of productivity, but thanks to Apple Care (pats self on back) it cost me exactly $0.

Disaster

My iMac shut itself off while I was in the shower.

I turned it back on.
It shut itself off.

I unplugged all peripherals and turned it back on.
It shut itself off.

I called Apple Care. We reset the Power Management Unit.
I restarted it.
It shut itself off.

The iMac, he dead.
Off to Clarendon with dead iMac tomorrow morning. I hope they have right part in stock.

:(

OMG

Watching a text stream from MacWorld... the iPhone is going to be THE new must-have gadget. I will be buying one IMMEDIATELY (and I don't even know what they cost yet)!

[Update: $500 and not available 'til JUNE. June?? How can I wait until JUNE??? Ugh. My technolust has been piqued and will now go unsated for 6 months. Unless, of course, Steve also unveils the ThinBook...]