{"id":2981,"date":"2010-11-23T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T17:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2010-11-23T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T20:17:09","slug":"imac-goes-to-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/23\/imac-goes-to-the-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"iMac Goes To The Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/moblog\/IMG_20101123_121358.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/95587-2\/IMG_20101123_121358.jpg\" height=480 width=640 border=0 title=\"Dusty desk after removing my iMac to take it in to have the optical drive repaired.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My desk looks pretty sparse without the <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/13\/now-approaching-ludicrous-size\/\">27&#8243; iMac<\/a> sitting on it. A few months back I noticed that the optical drive wasn&#8217;t working correctly, so today after calling support I have a 1pm appointment at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/retail\/partridgecreek\/\">the local Apple store<\/a> to have the problem assessed. Since the drive simply doesn&#8217;t read disks; making slight clicking and whirring noises before ejecting them, I believe that the drive probably needs to be replaced. Hopefully there is a spare drive in the store and the techs will be able to replace the drive quickly, as this machine is pretty core to my network at home.<\/p>\n<p>At least this will give me an easy chance to clean behind where it normally sits. A fair bit of dust has built up back there in the last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> A new optical drive has been ordered, and Apple will call me when it&#8217;s in the store so I can bring the iMac back in to have the replacement done. Until then I&#8217;ve got my iMac back at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My desk looks pretty sparse without the 27&#8243; iMac sitting on it. A few months back I noticed that the optical drive wasn&#8217;t working correctly,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/23\/imac-goes-to-the-hospital\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">iMac Goes To The Hospital<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}