well, the good news is that all the dns funniness should be resolved. the bad news is that the ibook is hosed beyond belief. according to the local mac tech – “well, i don’t know. i’ve never seen this many things go this badly all at once. it looks like you just got a bunch of shoddy components.”
great. if i’m lucky i’ll get it back before christmas. meanwhile i’m back to a using a bevy of linux and windows boxen which have reliable served me for a median of 4 years. it’s nice to see apple ensuring quality products from its outsourced manufacturing partners.