So Monday night my iMac died on me, I was happily playing World of Warcraft when the graphics corrupted and the computer froze. When I tried to restart it, it would start booting and then freeze and refused to get any further. I started it in target disk mode and the hard drive is fine, so it's probably something with the motherboard or graphics chip that has failed.

I knew something bad had happened straight away as my iMac has never crashed like this in the few years I've had it now. So I was prepared to be spending several hundreds of pounds to get it repaired or consider buying a new machine. Bother of those I don't really want to do.

Luckily though, I typed my iMac's serial number into the Apple support site to look up local repair centres, and lo-and-behold, my iMac is still under warranty! Since I bought the machine under the educational discount scheme a few years back, it came with free extended warranty. I didn't know about this and really cheered me up.

So I dropped my iMac off at the nearest repair centre which amazingly is in Treforest of all places, and all I have to do is put up with the repair time which will be about a week or so because the parts for my out of production iMac will have to be ordered and shipped from far off lands.

Although this means I'm having to put up with my lowly Macbook which doesn't play WoW particularly well but will do for now.