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Space Racist posted:I can't remember if you mentioned earlier if you're new to Apple or not, but if you're beyond the two week return period, you should have a very easy time selling the MBA for most of its original value. Check SA Mart and eBay to get an idea of typical selling prices. Not new to Apple products, just their desktops and laptops. Interestingly, the order date WAS more than 2 weeks ago (just barely) but their website still took it. Great customer service by them is why I'll continue buying from them.
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Hamburglar posted:Not new to Apple products, just their desktops and laptops. Awesome, glad it worked out. Anyway, Macs are essentially the Hondas of the computer resell market.  Question for multiple Mac owners: do you all do Time Machine backups via Time Capsule/Airport Extreme, or do you just worry about them for your primary computer? As is I have a USB external handling my backups on my iMac, with my MBA mostly working as a portable extension of the iMac with mostly the same files and the like. That said, I'm wondering for flexibility's sake if it'd be worth it to move the external to my AEBS and handle backups wirelessly for both computers, or if it'd be dog slow and not worth it as opposed to just copying important files over to the iMac for safe keeping. Funny thing is, I suspect I have more to worry about failure-wise from my iMac's HDD than I do from the MBA's SSD.
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You don't even have to move the drive; you can share the drive from the iMac and back up to that (I'd recommend dividing it into two partitions). I use my mini this way to back up multiple Macs. The laptop should also theoretically be able to wake-on-LAN the iMac if it's sleeping.
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Huh, I don't know why I didn't even consider that option. Obviously speed would be the same for the iMac, but how would it compare in the MBA's case to backing up via the AEBS? Any faster or slower?
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I don't know because I've never tried the AEBS option, but I don't see any reason it would be significantly different. When I back up laptops this way, I usually run it once per day manually (hourly is excessive and gets in the way, especially if you need to close the lid while it's running; it can take a while to recover from that), and the backup would take <10 minutes on a normal day (1 gig or less of changes). EDIT: Also, after you start the backup in the "remote" format (backs up into a sparse bundle instead of directly onto the file system), you can still unplug the drive and plug it directly into the laptop if you want, and it will still work (if you need to do a restore or have a lot of changes). headfake fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Aug 30, 2011 |
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SpoonsForThought posted:You're going to have to chat with one of their customer reps. I had to chat with 3 of them to find one who would apply it. Just be careful though, there are some reports on the MacRumors forums that if you harass too many of the reps they could ban your account. 
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Aug 30, 2011 20:41
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Does anyone sell solid, plain black keys for the MacBook Pro? Like, ones that are blank?
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At work we have a late 2006 iMac (Intel!) that has started randomly turning off all on its own. I think its a bad power supply, any idea what Apple would charge for a new PS?
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Bob Morales posted:SATA III issue, as OWC uses SandForce drives and they have the same problem. Jury is still out on whether it's the controller or the cable: Space Racist posted:Huh, I don't know why I didn't even consider that option. Obviously speed would be the same for the iMac, but how would it compare in the MBA's case to backing up via the AEBS? Any faster or slower? frogbs posted:At work we have a late 2006 iMac (Intel!) that has started randomly turning off all on its own. I think its a bad power supply, any idea what Apple would charge for a new PS?
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frogbs posted:At work we have a late 2006 iMac (Intel!) that has started randomly turning off all on its own. I think its a bad power supply, any idea what Apple would charge for a new PS? If you brought it to a Fruit Stand they might charge around $60-$70, it's basically the same power supply from the old iSight-equipped G5 iMacs.
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Binary Badger posted:If you brought it to a Fruit Stand they might charge around $60-$70, it's basically the same power supply from the old iSight-equipped G5 iMacs. Ok, thats not so bad, how much does apple charge to actually perform the repair? Also, we have an Apple Certified repair place just down the road that charges $85/hr just to look at it. Is that competitive with what Apple charges?
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frogbs posted:Also, we have an Apple Certified repair place just down the road that charges $85/hr just to look at it. Is that competitive with what Apple charges? Most (but not all) AASPs will apply their diagnostic charges toward your repair. They just don't want the endless parade of people coming in for "Yep, we tested it, your power supply's bad," walking out the door with a declined repair for $0, and then buying what they need from iFixit.
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^^^ Yeah, really, I used to get so sick of that, never went the iFixit route though For something out of warranty, Apple is definitely going to charge something. But it may vary among the Fruit Stands, you should call the nearest one to you and find out. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Aug 31, 2011 |
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Binary Badger posted:^^^ Yeah, really, I used to get so sick of that, never went the iFixit route though New power supply from the Apple Store is $106.50, not bad! The AASP down the street would charge $60 regardless plus time & parts, and it certainly would have been more than $106. Plus Apple had the part on hand!
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So I'm still looking to put a 7200 RPM HDD into my 13" MBP, and had settled on the WD Scorpio black 500 GB off Amazon (but hadn't ordered it yet). I saw this come up today as a Shell Shocker on Newegg, and was curious as to if anyone has any experience with it: Hitachi Travelstar Z7K320? $39.99 seems like a rather good price, though I tried doing some searches online and couldn't find much in the way of reviews/comparisons to other 2.5" HDDs.
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SourKraut posted:So I'm still looking to put a 7200 RPM HDD into my 13" MBP, and had settled on the WD Scorpio black 500 GB off Amazon (but hadn't ordered it yet). http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/internal-hard-drives/1284097/hitachi-z7k320 Doesn't seem like it's a bad drive. Are you sure 320GB is enough? I'd be tempted to get a faster, bigger drive.
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Bob Morales posted:http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/internal-hard-drives/1284097/hitachi-z7k320 I think so, I'd probably partition it as ~ 100GB for Windows 7 and 200GB for OS X. Ultimately I just plan on using it until I can pick up a decent 256 GB SSD later this year or early next.
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SourKraut posted:I think so, I'd probably partition it as ~ 100GB for Windows 7 and 200GB for OS X. Ultimately I just plan on using it until I can pick up a decent 256 GB SSD later this year or early next. Yea, there's not really enough space to do much dual-booting or VM's on < $200 SSD's right now
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gently caress, too bad that is sold out. I need something for my optibay.
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Bob Morales posted:Yea, there's not really enough space to do much dual-booting or VM's on < $200 SSD's right now Yeah, I'm hoping that maybe either later this year (Black Friday? Probably not...) maybe we'll see some additional great deals again, something similar to the deal Newegg had on the WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD back in June.
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SourKraut posted:Yeah, I'm hoping that maybe either later this year (Black Friday? Probably not...) maybe we'll see some additional great deals again, something similar to the deal Newegg had on the WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD back in June. I'm still kicking myself for missing that deal by a matter of seconds  I want cheap(er), high(er) capacity SSDs now, damnit!
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SourKraut posted:Yeah, I'm hoping that maybe either later this year (Black Friday? Probably not...) maybe we'll see some additional great deals again, something similar to the deal Newegg had on the WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD back in June. Kind of a lovely disk and they got all bought up by douchebags trying to sell them afterwards for a profit. There was a deal in SA-Mart where some guy sold like 2 256GB drives and 2 64GB drives for $400 ridiculous though.
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Oneiros posted:I'm still kicking myself for missing that deal by a matter of seconds Yeah I was really pissed then too because I went and added it to my cart as soon as the deal activated, but had forgotten to log in. By the time I logged in and went to confirm the order, I got the wonderful message saying it'd been taken out of my cart.
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I opened a bottle of Dr. Pepper a fair distance away from my 13" 2009 Macbook Pro, but not far enough that the contents of the well-shaken bottle didn't land in a flurry of droplets all over my keyboard (and loving everywhere else in my living room). I wiped my computer down before powering it off. But it wasn't before powering it off that I noticed that my 'E' key was completely nonfunctional. I tested all of the other keys. They were working fine before I powered off. I dry q-tipped and dry paper toweled the entire surface of my keyboard, as well as the inside of the E key. I soft shut down my computer and plugged it in to charge overnight. I then realized that plugging it in was a lovely idea, and upon unplugging the cord, the computer immediately powered on by itself. Freaked out, I force shut it down, only for it to immediately turn itself back on and arrive at my desktop. I force shut down again. Again, it turned back on, and sent me to a login screen for my account, which I had set in Preferences not to appear. What the gently caress is going on? What do I do? I have Applecare, but I know that liquid damage isn't covered by these things.
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Hanks Lust Cafe posted:I opened a bottle of Dr. Pepper a fair distance away from my 13" 2009 Macbook Pro, but not far enough that the contents of the well-shaken bottle didn't land in a flurry of droplets all over my keyboard (and loving everywhere else in my living room).
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Take it in and be honest. My coworker's wife just spilled liquid in her 6 month-old MacBook. The system still operated fine so at least the logic board wasn't shot. However, some of the keys stopped working. She took it into the Apple Store, explained what happened, and they did a keyboard replacement under the standard warranty. She doesn't even have extended AppleCare. It might have helped that she was having topcase cracking issues that are apparently a replace-on-sight sort of thing with the MacBooks. It's worth a shot.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Take it in and be honest.
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Well I guess my Applecare expired! That's weird. Am I hosed when I bring it in tomorrow? Again I can't imagine that very much liquid at all got into the computer, and probably only when I started wiping it down did it actually travel underneath the keys. If so, how hosed would ya'll say I am $$$-wise?
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Hanks Lust Cafe posted:Well I guess my Applecare expired! That's weird. Am I hosed when I bring it in tomorrow? Again I can't imagine that very much liquid at all got into the computer, and probably only when I started wiping it down did it actually travel underneath the keys. http://www.ifixit.com/MacBook-Parts/MacBook-Pro-13-Inch-Unibody-Upper-Case/IF163-000
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Good thing I went to 16gbs. Not sure what all is using it, but, it's being used. Edit: And to think a few months ago I was using a Core Duo iMac w/ 2gb of ram and a slow 250gb drive. Now quad i5, SSD, and 16gb ram...mmm
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I'd like to add that I am now unable to turn on my computer. Whether this is the fault of an uncooperative power button or a hosed up computer is unclear to me. Either way...loving hell.
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Anyone used Samsung HDDs in the MBPs or such? Newegg has a 500GB, 7200RPM drive on sale for $50 and since I didn't get the Hitachi that was on Shell Shocker before it sold out figured I'd maybe give this drive a chance unless anyone has had bad experiences with it. Posting it too since some others mentioned they were looking for HDDs for optibays/etc.
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My Macbook Pro has slowly been getting slower and slower and it's really starting to bug me. Latest version. Especialy flash, it slows the computer to a crawl.
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I've put my base model 2010 MacBook Air up for sale in SAMart. It pains me to do it but I simply don't need a notebook anymore.
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Hanks Lust Cafe posted:I'd like to add that I am now unable to turn on my computer. I took a system in recently that was OOW, and was told they have a flat $310 repair option - fixes anything broken. Not sure what it's worth to you but that's maybe something to think about.
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SourKraut posted:Anyone used Samsung HDDs in the MBPs or such? Newegg has a 500GB, 7200RPM drive on sale for $50 and since I didn't get the Hitachi that was on Shell Shocker before it sold out figured I'd maybe give this drive a chance unless anyone has had bad experiences with it. Posting it too since some others mentioned they were looking for HDDs for optibays/etc. I too was looking into putting a Samsung HD in my early, unibody MB. Moreover, are 5400 rpm drives more recommended for laptops (battery and heat)?
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5400 RPM drives are pretty much just bargain binners at this point, useful for their initial cost. Current 7200 RPM drives like the Hitachi TravelStar H2IK5001672SP and the WD Scorpio Black have been optimized to consume just about the same amount of power as 5400 drives. I use the former only because I can get them for $60. Newegg just put Samsung Spinpoint 7200 500GB drives up for $50.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152236 Edit: its power usage specs aren't quite as good as the WDC or Travelstar drives, but to each his own.. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Sep 1, 2011 |
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pipebomb posted:I took a system in recently that was OOW, and was told they have a flat $310 repair option - fixes anything broken. Not sure what it's worth to you but that's maybe something to think about. For what it's worth, I was just told that doesn't cover anything substantially more expensive than the service; the logic board (mine being quite dead) was specifically called out as being an additional parts cost on top.
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Binary Badger posted:5400 RPM drives are pretty much just bargain binners at this point, useful for their initial cost.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Actually it's turning into the opposite. The new 1TB Caviar Blue (5400 RPM) is faster than the old 500GB Caviar Black (7200 RPM). I wouldn't be surprised if we stop seeing 7200 RPM laptop drives completely because the performance delta isn't that significant anymore, and anyone who cares about performance will go SSD. Won't they always make them, since 7200 RPM 2.5" drives will be used in servers as well?
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