At around 3:15pm, on a quiet Sunday afternoon, I was working away on my 6 year old MacBook Pro, doing some coding and enjoying a coffee. Despite its age it was still working alright. It was a bit slow at times, and it had some weird quirks lately, and the battery was all but done so I had to keep it plugged in all the time. But other then that it was a machine that had served me well, and would continue to do so until at least next fall, I had hoped.

And then as I was working away in Xcode it shut off on me. My mind went to the usual suspects; maybe the charger wasn’t connected properly and the battery had been drained. Maybe the power went off in my apartment. Maybe the charger itself had just died. After a few minutes I realized that it was probably something serious. So at 3:20pm I tossed my laptop and gear and into my messenger bag and quickly drove to the Apple Store to get someone to look at it before they closed their doors in just under 1 hour and 40 minutes time.

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