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A nice apple story
On 15/11/2011 2:12 PM, iBoaterer wrote:
In articleFO6dnQwMceLqUl_TnZ2dnUVZ_vudnZ2d@earthlink .com, says... One of the hard drives on one of my aging Apple computers has been dying for a couple of weeks. It finally gave up the ghost yesterday. Called Apple Care and the tech suggested about four different ways to try to resuscitate it, to no avail. So he made an appointment for me at the local Apple store. I showed up, tech said "go to lunch." Came back 90 minutes later, new hard drive in machine, running diagnostics. No charge for labor or parts. Love it. Wow, so if someone tells you to "go to lunch" you step right to it, eh? Must be afraid of the tech guy as well as everyone else, coward. Maybe if they didn't deal in Chinese parts, you'd have a better computer. American quality was so bad and expensive, they don't make them any more. -- The reason government can't fix the economic problems as government is the problem. |
A nice apple story
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A nice apple story
On 15/11/2011 6:49 PM, JustWait wrote:
On 11/15/2011 8:47 PM, wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:59:18 -0500, X ` wrote: On 11/15/11 6:36 PM, North Star wrote: On Nov 15, 4:45 pm, X ` wrote: One of the hard drives on one of my aging Apple computers has been dying for a couple of weeks. It finally gave up the ghost yesterday. Called Apple Care and the tech suggested about four different ways to try to resuscitate it, to no avail. So he made an appointment for me at the local Apple store. I showed up, tech said "go to lunch." Came back 90 minutes later, new hard drive in machine, running diagnostics. No charge for labor or parts. Love it. Wow! just how old is that computer and was it still under warranty? Two years next month. When I bought it, I paid about $100 for a three year extended warranty. It's really nice...if I have a problem, I call Apple Care on the phone and usually the English speaking person who answers can work out the difficulty with me doing what is suggested. If not, the rep makes an appointment for me at the local store. I just reinstalled my apps and data back on the machine from a backup. Since most hard drives are warranted for 5 years by the manufacturer these days that seems like a great deal for Apple. Most computer problems are caused by bad hard drives. That has been true for a long time, pretty much since the end of the card reader and open reel tape drive. Wow! You mean Harry bought an extended service plan? Holy ****!!! I wish those were available with PC's;) snerk But tells us harry can't recover his own PC. First thing you do is make sure you can recover it yourself. As buying a 1TB laptop drive to replace an old 200MB one has advantages that warranter will not do. He probably has a 250M drive or less, but could have saved the warranty money for one of these: (and fast) http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX32627 -- The reason government can't fix the economic problems as government is the problem. |
A nice apple story
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A nice apple story
On 16/11/2011 4:33 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 11/15/11 8:49 PM, JustWait wrote: On 11/15/2011 8:47 PM, wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:59:18 -0500, X ` wrote: On 11/15/11 6:36 PM, North Star wrote: On Nov 15, 4:45 pm, X ` wrote: One of the hard drives on one of my aging Apple computers has been dying for a couple of weeks. It finally gave up the ghost yesterday. Called Apple Care and the tech suggested about four different ways to try to resuscitate it, to no avail. So he made an appointment for me at the local Apple store. I showed up, tech said "go to lunch." Came back 90 minutes later, new hard drive in machine, running diagnostics. No charge for labor or parts. Love it. Wow! just how old is that computer and was it still under warranty? Two years next month. When I bought it, I paid about $100 for a three year extended warranty. It's really nice...if I have a problem, I call Apple Care on the phone and usually the English speaking person who answers can work out the difficulty with me doing what is suggested. If not, the rep makes an appointment for me at the local store. I just reinstalled my apps and data back on the machine from a backup. Since most hard drives are warranted for 5 years by the manufacturer these days that seems like a great deal for Apple. Most computer problems are caused by bad hard drives. That has been true for a long time, pretty much since the end of the card reader and open reel tape drive. Wow! You mean Harry bought an extended service plan? Holy ****!!! I wish those were available with PC's;) snerk I'm sure with all the imaginary computers at your facilities, you can just hot swap a failed drive out instantaneously, right? Takes about 2 minutes. Just looked them up, due to devaluing currencies of CAD/USD and the flood of the plants in Taiwan (but China is OK) looks like the new crop of drives have more than doubled in price. Last one I bought was a 2TB for $75. Now $269. -- The reason government can't fix the economic problems as government is the problem. |
A nice apple story
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says... On 11/16/2011 11:23 AM, iBoaterer wrote: In , says... On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:48:42 -0500, wrote: In , says... On 11/15/11 8:49 PM, JustWait wrote: On 11/15/2011 8:47 PM, wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:59:18 -0500, X ` wrote: On 11/15/11 6:36 PM, North Star wrote: On Nov 15, 4:45 pm, X ` wrote: One of the hard drives on one of my aging Apple computers has been dying for a couple of weeks. It finally gave up the ghost yesterday. Called Apple Care and the tech suggested about four different ways to try to resuscitate it, to no avail. So he made an appointment for me at the local Apple store. I showed up, tech said "go to lunch." Came back 90 minutes later, new hard drive in machine, running diagnostics. No charge for labor or parts. Love it. Wow! just how old is that computer and was it still under warranty? Two years next month. When I bought it, I paid about $100 for a three year extended warranty. It's really nice...if I have a problem, I call Apple Care on the phone and usually the English speaking person who answers can work out the difficulty with me doing what is suggested. If not, the rep makes an appointment for me at the local store. I just reinstalled my apps and data back on the machine from a backup. Since most hard drives are warranted for 5 years by the manufacturer these days that seems like a great deal for Apple. Most computer problems are caused by bad hard drives. That has been true for a long time, pretty much since the end of the card reader and open reel tape drive. Wow! You mean Harry bought an extended service plan? Holy ****!!! I wish those were available with PC's;)snerk I'm sure with all the imaginary computers at your facilities, you can just hot swap a failed drive out instantaneously, right? It's about that simple to do so. You can hot swap any SATA drive in any win OS, XP or newer. I was playing with drives the other day and as soon as you plug them in, XP finds them and installs them. I am not sure the RAID BIOS on the controller card would actually rebuild the drive tho since that is usually only accessible on a boot. I think you can mirror in the OS. I just haven't done it. Yep, Harry the computer expert just doesn't know... Maybe you could explain why Harry would need a server. I have no idea why, he only has a few clients! I'd just get a one terabyte hard drive, hook it to a desktop computer, and for $80 when it's full, buy a new one and put the old one on a shelf. |
A nice apple story
On 11/16/11 1:32 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 15/11/2011 6:49 PM, JustWait wrote: On 11/15/2011 8:47 PM, wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:59:18 -0500, X ` wrote: On 11/15/11 6:36 PM, North Star wrote: On Nov 15, 4:45 pm, X ` wrote: One of the hard drives on one of my aging Apple computers has been dying for a couple of weeks. It finally gave up the ghost yesterday. Called Apple Care and the tech suggested about four different ways to try to resuscitate it, to no avail. So he made an appointment for me at the local Apple store. I showed up, tech said "go to lunch." Came back 90 minutes later, new hard drive in machine, running diagnostics. No charge for labor or parts. Love it. Wow! just how old is that computer and was it still under warranty? Two years next month. When I bought it, I paid about $100 for a three year extended warranty. It's really nice...if I have a problem, I call Apple Care on the phone and usually the English speaking person who answers can work out the difficulty with me doing what is suggested. If not, the rep makes an appointment for me at the local store. I just reinstalled my apps and data back on the machine from a backup. Since most hard drives are warranted for 5 years by the manufacturer these days that seems like a great deal for Apple. Most computer problems are caused by bad hard drives. That has been true for a long time, pretty much since the end of the card reader and open reel tape drive. Wow! You mean Harry bought an extended service plan? Holy ****!!! I wish those were available with PC's;) snerk But tells us harry can't recover his own PC. First thing you do is make sure you can recover it yourself. As buying a 1TB laptop drive to replace an old 200MB one has advantages that warranter will not do. He probably has a 250M drive or less, but could have saved the warranty money for one of these: (and fast) http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX32627 D'oh. Every time you post, you demonstrate your stupidity. The drive that failed is in a sealed iMac, not a PC box. You don't just swap out drives in an iMac. And the iMac has a service contract, so there is no need for me to try to take it apart. Oh, the drive that failed was a 1 terabyte drive. My Macbook Pro laptop has a 250 MB drive, which is more than adequate for its purpose. I have four 2TB drives in my server. I can "recover" the iMac from a bad software condition, but that wasn't the case in this case. When I have six months left on the iMac service contract, I'll sell it, just as I did with my previous iMac, and get the latest model. Now, anything more you wish to post out of your ignorance? |
A nice apple story
On 16/11/2011 12:17 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 11/16/11 1:32 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 15/11/2011 6:49 PM, JustWait wrote: On 11/15/2011 8:47 PM, wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:59:18 -0500, X ` wrote: On 11/15/11 6:36 PM, North Star wrote: On Nov 15, 4:45 pm, X ` wrote: One of the hard drives on one of my aging Apple computers has been dying for a couple of weeks. It finally gave up the ghost yesterday. Called Apple Care and the tech suggested about four different ways to try to resuscitate it, to no avail. So he made an appointment for me at the local Apple store. I showed up, tech said "go to lunch." Came back 90 minutes later, new hard drive in machine, running diagnostics. No charge for labor or parts. Love it. Wow! just how old is that computer and was it still under warranty? Two years next month. When I bought it, I paid about $100 for a three year extended warranty. It's really nice...if I have a problem, I call Apple Care on the phone and usually the English speaking person who answers can work out the difficulty with me doing what is suggested. If not, the rep makes an appointment for me at the local store. I just reinstalled my apps and data back on the machine from a backup. Since most hard drives are warranted for 5 years by the manufacturer these days that seems like a great deal for Apple. Most computer problems are caused by bad hard drives. That has been true for a long time, pretty much since the end of the card reader and open reel tape drive. Wow! You mean Harry bought an extended service plan? Holy ****!!! I wish those were available with PC's;) snerk But tells us harry can't recover his own PC. First thing you do is make sure you can recover it yourself. As buying a 1TB laptop drive to replace an old 200MB one has advantages that warranter will not do. He probably has a 250M drive or less, but could have saved the warranty money for one of these: (and fast) http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX32627 D'oh. Every time you post, you demonstrate your stupidity. The drive that failed is in a sealed iMac, not a PC box. You don't just swap out drives in an iMac. And the iMac has a service contract, so there is no need for me to try to take it apart. Oh, the drive that failed was a 1 terabyte drive. My Macbook Pro laptop has a 250 MB drive, which is more than adequate for its purpose. I have four 2TB drives in my server. I can "recover" the iMac from a bad software condition, but that wasn't the case in this case. When I have six months left on the iMac service contract, I'll sell it, just as I did with my previous iMac, and get the latest model. Now, anything more you wish to post out of your ignorance? So Macs are proprietary crap? Stupid loser users never learn. The best way to judge a products quality is to ask but not buy a warranty. Lower is better. But for hard drives, I look at them as consumables and never run any over 5 years old. -- The reason government can't fix the economic problems as government is the problem. |
A nice apple story
On 11/16/11 2:52 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 16/11/2011 12:17 PM, X ` Man wrote: On 11/16/11 1:32 PM, Canuck57 wrote: On 15/11/2011 6:49 PM, JustWait wrote: On 11/15/2011 8:47 PM, wrote: On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:59:18 -0500, X ` wrote: On 11/15/11 6:36 PM, North Star wrote: On Nov 15, 4:45 pm, X ` wrote: One of the hard drives on one of my aging Apple computers has been dying for a couple of weeks. It finally gave up the ghost yesterday. Called Apple Care and the tech suggested about four different ways to try to resuscitate it, to no avail. So he made an appointment for me at the local Apple store. I showed up, tech said "go to lunch." Came back 90 minutes later, new hard drive in machine, running diagnostics. No charge for labor or parts. Love it. Wow! just how old is that computer and was it still under warranty? Two years next month. When I bought it, I paid about $100 for a three year extended warranty. It's really nice...if I have a problem, I call Apple Care on the phone and usually the English speaking person who answers can work out the difficulty with me doing what is suggested. If not, the rep makes an appointment for me at the local store. I just reinstalled my apps and data back on the machine from a backup. Since most hard drives are warranted for 5 years by the manufacturer these days that seems like a great deal for Apple. Most computer problems are caused by bad hard drives. That has been true for a long time, pretty much since the end of the card reader and open reel tape drive. Wow! You mean Harry bought an extended service plan? Holy ****!!! I wish those were available with PC's;) snerk But tells us harry can't recover his own PC. First thing you do is make sure you can recover it yourself. As buying a 1TB laptop drive to replace an old 200MB one has advantages that warranter will not do. He probably has a 250M drive or less, but could have saved the warranty money for one of these: (and fast) http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX32627 D'oh. Every time you post, you demonstrate your stupidity. The drive that failed is in a sealed iMac, not a PC box. You don't just swap out drives in an iMac. And the iMac has a service contract, so there is no need for me to try to take it apart. Oh, the drive that failed was a 1 terabyte drive. My Macbook Pro laptop has a 250 MB drive, which is more than adequate for its purpose. I have four 2TB drives in my server. I can "recover" the iMac from a bad software condition, but that wasn't the case in this case. When I have six months left on the iMac service contract, I'll sell it, just as I did with my previous iMac, and get the latest model. Now, anything more you wish to post out of your ignorance? So Macs are proprietary crap? Stupid loser users never learn. The best way to judge a products quality is to ask but not buy a warranty. Lower is better. But for hard drives, I look at them as consumables and never run any over 5 years old. No, dummy, the issue that kept me from replacing the iMac drive was not a proprietary issue. They use standard OEM drives. Haven't you ever seen a a recent model iMac? Perhaps you should look at one and get back to me about replacing the innards. And once again, you demonstrate your ignorance. |
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