Well, those of you who have been following my Twitter recently know that my MacBook, as semi-wonderful as it may be (you know, I still sort of miss my clamshell iBook), has developed the infamous Random Shutdown Syndrome (RSS). I mean, it’s just ridiculous! It doesn’t happen as often as others have had it (I’ve read of some past MacBook users whose computer shut down every 10 minutes or so), indeed mine has happened very irregularly. It might do it twice in an hour, or it might go two or three days without doing it, but there’s no doubt that it randomly shuts itself down. I’ve been trying to pay attention to what I’ve been doing on the MacBook when it does shut itself down like that, but there’s absolutely NO consistency, other than that it only happens when the computer is unplugged. Sometimes the processors will be churning heavily, other times I’ll just be reading something on the screen, processors quiet, when the screen suddenly goes black without warning.

Nevertheless, it’s enough to drive me crazy and be unwilling to trust my work when I’m not plugged in. Therefore, tomorrow, I get to take my MacBook into the Genius Bar, and they’re going to ship it off somewhere to examine the logic board or something like that. In the meantime, I will be temporarily shifting my stuff over to our Mac mini that my brother primarily uses, and anything that’s relatively non-trivial that I can’t fit over there, I will be putting in an encrypted disk image and storing it on a secret location on Webmacster87.info, thanks to the 375 GB of disk space my new webhost gives me.

I don’t know how long it will be until I get my MacBook back, but we’ll just have to see. All I can say is, my iBook never had a random shutdown issue…

Tags: Genius Bar, iBook, MacBook, random shutdown, repair, support