1) My Macbook is down.

It was acting kind of funky yesterday before I left for work, so I shut it down forcibly by holding the power button. When I return in the evening it is not booting at all. It can boot off my iPod, which has some diagnostic stuff on it, but the internal drive cannot be accessed in any meaningful way.

I’m pissed off. Mostly because none of my itty-bitty screwdrivers are quite right for getting in to it to prod the disk and see if it needs replacing. That wouldn’t be so bad, since I’d been meaning to buy a bigger disk for it anyway. Of course, the possibility remains that something altogether more sinister is amiss.

2) I am down.

Exam stress, dead Macbook, inability to fix it, bunged-up nose that just won’t shift and a stye in my eye that makes me look like I ought to be ringing bells in Paris.

I just ate a chocolate brownie the size of Kuwait, and while it’s put me on an almighty sugar-high I’m not sure it’s actually helping.

3) The Apple Store is down.

As I type this the Apple store has been replaced by that cute “we’re doing things, shhhh” post-it note thingy that they do when they’re putting some new product into it.

This following a particularly frenzied round of new-macbook rumours has me thinking maybe I could have held out another couple of weeks or so before plonking down for my (now-broken) MBP?

If it’s anything particularly exciting I may have to stuff mine on eBay (as soon as I fix it). Otherwise it’s just going to contribute to #2.

[edit] No MacBook Pro updates, but some boring (as predicted) MacBook updates. Store’s still down, mind, and Thinksecret say their sources definitely had another 2 SKUs that were to be released today