Mac Genius?

The following post is 100% geek certified:

I'm feeling rather accomplished these days. Not because of the tons of projects that are finally seeing the light of day - but I hacked open not one but TWO Macs recently - and lived to tell the tale. I'm no slouch when it comes to building and or fixing a computer, but Macs have to be the most tightly designed when it comes to layout and design. Those aesthetics aren't easy to come by - each component is snuggly packed and related to the next. You take out one part, you're taking out ten. Fortunately, all those years playing "Operation" paid off.

First I was able to recover a drive that I thought was dead ages ago. Benefit? Hours of footage saved, and a reason to build my internal storage up to nearly 1 terabyte. In the words of Michael Gardner "Ballin. Ass."

Secondly, well Val dropped her laptop...again. This time it wasn't as simple as fixing the DC power input...or reseating the CPU (yea that was *real fun*). This time the LCD cracked with a pretty little flowery pattern that rendered all 15" of beauty useless. How much would it cost to repair via Apple. $1,000. Actual cost when you have a Mac Genius on tap = $300. And to top it off I added a nice snazzy neon green touch to the backlight on the cover. Call it Granny Apple. Maybe I'll start a company "Pimp your Mac". Nah - nevermind apparently its been done.