Last night around 3:30am I was having a little trouble sleeping, consequently I picked up my laptop pulled up the most recent edition of Diggnation and hoped the wonderful drunk-tech humor would push me off to a restful sleep land. It worked! Then disaster struck, as I was closing the laptop on my night stand, the laptop fell off.  In slow motion I watched my laptop hit the ground and the backlight on the monitor break. Damn, I’m more tired than disappointed; I’ll address it in the morning.

I woke up in the morning hoping the laptop would have somehow healed itself. It didn’t. Apple store here I come.  $1200 bucks, ahhh no thank you, any other solutions I ask the genius dude. He gently says, yes, Mission Repair. Doing a little research I find them online, engadget has recognized these guys! Instantly a legit shop in my mind and they are based in KC, happiness throughout the body, though most of their business is web based mail-ins. I walk in and find out a good amount of their employees are ex-Apple employees. My lapy is in good hands. They quote me $400 for a new glossy screen, a third of the cost of Apple, I asked if they could fix it in the next hour, they replied with a warming, "yup." At this point I want to hug somebody, anybody really. Flash forward 10 minutes and Mission computer says they are out of the glossy screens, they can have some in tomorrow or they will install a mat finish for 100 dollars less, due to the inconvenience, making my total 300.  Done Deal. 30 minutes later I walk out with a fully functional screen on my Macbook

I will be working with Mission Repair quite a bit more for my out of warranty repairs.