Last night my power cord on my mac died. This power cord was only 3 months old. I bought it for $75 in a panic because my last one kicked out during finals. Furious at Mac and afraid I was going to have to pay another 75 on a replacement cord I went to the Genius Bar at the apple store today. This cord was the new model and evidently it's been out for less than a year. Without a receipt the genius bar was able to track down my serial number and replace my failure of a cord with a brand new one for free.
My next errand of the day was to stop by Best Buy for a new video cable for my Cintiq. This same Cintiq I bought a year ago on ebay. What should have been 1k was approximately $200. Honestly for that price I can't complain that it came with the wrong cords...at least the power adapter while the right voltage was from an HP printer and not for a Wacom tablet. The video cable was also mis-matched, probably from an old monitor.
Well shortly into my time experimenting with my heavenly new piece of equipment the monitor tinted blue. I was afraid it might be because the actual tablet is a POS (pardon the expression). I was at school and very low on $$ so I held off on doing anything, hoping if I just replaced the wire all would be well. Finally today I did it. The past few days I went to a few stores to see if they had the official wire I need--pronged on both sides, larger at one end, smaller at the other, but to no avail. Finally I gave in and purchased a DVI cable and a converter. Just after my last post I sat down to plug in the wire to see if it solved the problem and I am thrilled to report that my screen is no longer tinted blue. Also the random line of red on the LCD screen has disappeared.
All in all, a very good day.
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