Last week my iMac Late 2013 started to have frequent beach ball syndrome. I noticed that starting apps were slower in general and Safari behaved sluggishly. I checked for console messages and found the dreaded:<\/p>\n
disk0s2: I\/O error<\/p>\n
After much Disk Utility repair or first aid, the above error still come back at infrequent times. I went on Google and was already mentally positioning myself for a hard drive replacement. I then found the iMac (27-inch) 3TB Hard Drive Replacement<\/a> Program. Lone and behold, my iMac was eligible! Talk about timing.<\/p>\n Brought the iMac to the genius bar yesterday morning and got it back the same day in early evening.<\/p>\n Restored my iMac with my latest Time Machine backup, and my iMac was back to its old self.<\/p>\n The experience was wonderful and all Apple related technology and customer support process worked like a charm.<\/p>\n We often compare Apple products with other products by comparing their features and benefits of the hardware, but I think their retail presence and their support is often an understated feature in itself and should not be underestimated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week my iMac Late 2013 started to have frequent beach ball syndrome. I noticed that starting apps were slower in general and Safari behaved sluggishly. I checked for console messages and found the dreaded: disk0s2: I\/O error After much Disk Utility repair or first aid, the above error still come back at infrequent times. … Continue reading “Great Apple Support”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6i8-19","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}