Quintin Jardine's blog

Sorry I’ve been off line for a couple of weeks, but I’ve been experiencing IT problems. Last April I decided to change to Apple hardware, for a whole raft of reasons, but mainly because their machines look nice and are blazing fast. I must have copped a Monday morning one, for after a full system reinstall in November, my hard disk gave up the ghost just as 2010 was drawing to a close. At that time of year, nothing happens quickly, but the repairer in Ponteland did a fine job as soon as the machine reached him. Thanks Michael. Less than warm thanks to Steve Jobs, though. The boss of Apple takes no responsibility for recovering data lost by the catastrophic collapse of one of his machines; that cost is down to the customer, even if the failed computer is one day out of the factory. Does that seem fair to you? No, I didn’t think it would.