The Leaky Faucet ...

First of all, I'm not a Mac user. But I do know *something* about them, which is more than I can say about one user who received an email as to the WinBlast worm, telling students to bring in any laptops before connecting them to the University's network. This girl came in with her laptop and said "I got the email, can you check it out?"
Okay, no problem right? Except that the laptop was an iBook. "What operating system is it running?"
"Uh, windows 2000, I think."
Right.

At this point there were several hilarious possible outcomes: turn it on, type for a bit, give it back and tell her "nope, it's fine." Or open it up, grab a magnifying glass and look through it thoroughly, poke around... and return it in the same way. Or even better, take out some rubber gloves, swab it, and tell her she'll find out in a week. *grin*

I was also privileged enough to take apart an iMac today. You know, just looking for viruses... ;)

Okay, those things are *not* meant to be taken apart. There is a "flap" so you can easily change the ram, but other than that, it's a big monitor, sitting on top of a motherboard. I was offered suggestions of reading the manual, or looking online for some instruction, but the engineer in me prevailed and lo and behold! I found the plastic part that comes off to reveal the rest of the screws. Not your standard PC screws either, so I had to be careful not to lose them. Which, of course, I proceeded to do fantastically. Down into the "monitor" part they tumbled. Luckily, I played with a guitar as a kid, and have a lot of experience shaking something with a small opening and a weird shape to remove a small foreign object. It worked! Once, only though. The other one is lost somewhere inside the great blue piece of plastic that is iMac.

Whatever, it was fun. :)