All hardware sucks
So. Last year we got the best a macbook pro as a christmas present. This year, two days after christmas, the hard drive in that mac pro does not appear to be driving any more.
Guess how long the warranty lasted? 365 days, which ended two days before christmas. Yay, Apple, you’ve almost got your hardware ttf down to exactly one minute after the warranty expires.
At least we’ve got a solid state drive (bought to replace the hard drive on her old macbook pro, which also had the hard drive die, but which then had the video chip delaminate in the window between ordering the ssd and having it arrive in the mail (I’d put a temporary hard drive into the thing to keep it functional while waiting for the ssd to arrive)) lying around which I can stuff into the machine tomorrow morning and, hopefully, restore her system onto it.