My two year old MacBook Pro went to sleep and never woke up and I could not boot it up again so I took it to the Apple Genius guys over at the Apple shop at the mall.  I was shocked to see how dead the mall was for a Saturday, this place was jam packed the week before Christmas and now it was totally dead except for the Apple store.   The Apple store seemed to have quite brisk business but I was worried so many people were there to see the “Genius” guys to repair defective equipment.  I overheard quite a few conversations and most seemed to be centered around defective hardware or malfunctioning software.

I was prepared to have the Genius guy tell me that my Mac Book was dead but he said there was a known problem with my model of Macbook and they would repair it for free despite the fact that it is out of warranty.   I am pleasantly surprised that they will honor the repair since I really didn’t want to have to buy a new laptop.

Since the holiday shopping season is over, I am extremely concerned that we are heading back into the abyss.  I just couldn’t fathom that the mall would be so dead on a Saturday during peak time!