Just in time, I thought, as I waited in line: at almost three years old, the insurance was about to expire – and my laptop looked like it was about to do the same. So I took my US-bought MacBook to a MacStore in a shopping strip in Mexico City, which has been my surrogate home for the last two years. They are, however, protected in a way that my old PCs never were, through AppleCare.
Yeah well, as I learned that day, Apple computers are definitely not indestructible. What was this malarkey? Macs were supposed to be indestructible, weren’t they? When I got the dreaded striped screen (mine was of the green variety, but I’ve since learned that it can also turn blue), I looked at it in bewilderment. I had never seen a MacBook fry before my eyes.
