They were only indirectly related. We've had extreme bitter cold weather here until Friday, when the temperature abruptly rose nearly 50 degrees. I unfortunately was at ground zero when a sheet of partly melted snow dumped onto my head, and, of course, the unzipped laptop bag I was carrying. By the time I got up off the ground, staggered into the house, and regained my faculties enough to remove the laptop, the melting snow had done its work on the electronics.
We are also blaming the abrupt temp change on the sudden fracturing of the 65 year old toilet tank.
A direct modern replacement for my "new" Macbook Pro would be $1700. Since I also had to buy a $200 toilet at essentially the same time, I ended up buying a really nice Windows laptop for much less than half that. I will do most "stuff" with it, and use my old Macbook Pro or iMac for the Serious Stuff. The "old" laptop is a 2012 model, and the iMac is a 2011. Both work very well, but as time and technology march on, they are becoming slower with every passing update.
The new laptop, for anybody interested, is a Lenovo Yoga 720 13", and other than the unfortunate fact it uses Windows 10, it so far seems a very capable machine.
For anybody that keeps suffering at the hands of Windows 10 updates, you can go in to network settings, and mark your wifi connection as "metered", and prevent Windows from downloading updates over that network.
Other than that, it's clear and 37, with the massive snow melt continuing unabated.
I also left my gift certificate to Discount Model Trains at home as well, so I guess I'll have to make a return trip.
