#FF00AA

I’d never wanted to open my iMac, to keep it pristine, but if someone’s going to put their greasy fingers in it anyway, why don’t I get started. And now I can say: boy is it nice design. I don’t even have any clue how the three bottom screws that seem to do nothing manage to keep the box shut.

In any case, all capacitors seem to be doing just fine. I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing — I have random failures (well, less and less random and more and more frequent) with no visible physical symptoms. I can so easily see myself dropping my computer off on Monday and getting it back two weeks later with a notice that “we didn’t find anything wrong with the hardware, so we reinstalled OS X because that’s what didn’t work anymore, and that’ll be $150 thank you because it’s not covered by AppleCare.”