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An SA search for "trackpad magic swap" yielded results in this thread:Space Harrier posted:Apple store was good enough to let me swap it for the trackpad even though I was a little past the 14 days. Jeratain posted:Good news everyone (just me actually)! I went to the Apple Store today and they confirmed (...) If I bring the whole box in I can swap out the magic mouse for the trackpad
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A while ago a friend gave me a dead HDD out of a MBP to try and recover, I couldn't get any data off of it and he never asked for it back. Years later he wants the drive back, but I lost track of it. I have two dead laptop drives that could potentially be his (a 500GB Seagate Momentus, and a 160GB WD Scorpio), both aren't Apple branded, and I recall pulling a drive out of my old PowerBook that had an Apple logo on it so I was under the impression that Apple branded all their HDDs. Do all Apple HDDs have Apple logos on them? Any way I can figure out which drive came out of a MacBook? I'm 90% sure it's the WD Scorpio but supposedly he's gonna spend thousands on a professional recovery service so...
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Feb 28, 2013 18:21
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NOTinuyasha posted:A while ago a friend gave me a dead HDD out of a MBP to try and recover, I couldn't get any data off of it and he never asked for it back. Years later he wants the drive back, but I lost track of it. I have two dead laptop drives that could potentially be his (a 500GB Seagate Momentus, and a 160GB WD Scorpio), both aren't Apple branded, and I recall pulling a drive out of my old PowerBook that had an Apple logo on it so I was under the impression that Apple branded all their HDDs. Do all Apple HDDs have Apple logos on them? Any way I can figure out which drive came out of a MacBook? I'm 90% sure it's the WD Scorpio but supposedly he's gonna spend thousands on a professional recovery service so...
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Feb 28, 2013 18:27
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NOTinuyasha posted:A while ago a friend gave me a dead HDD out of a MBP to try and recover, I couldn't get any data off of it and he never asked for it back. Years later he wants the drive back, but I lost track of it. I have two dead laptop drives that could potentially be his (a 500GB Seagate Momentus, and a 160GB WD Scorpio), both aren't Apple branded, and I recall pulling a drive out of my old PowerBook that had an Apple logo on it so I was under the impression that Apple branded all their HDDs. Do all Apple HDDs have Apple logos on them? Any way I can figure out which drive came out of a MacBook? I'm 90% sure it's the WD Scorpio but supposedly he's gonna spend thousands on a professional recovery service so... Unless his machine was BTO you can go to everymac.com and figure out what size drive it originally came with, though it should have an apple logo on it.
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Feb 28, 2013 18:29
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If you had the serial of the MacBook I could find out.
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Feb 28, 2013 18:36
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Willie Tomg posted:Is there any special reason the OSX partition on my 2009 17" MBP would spontaneously stop working on my home network? It connects to other wireless networks fine and I can browse as normally as a bandwidth leech can, it *connects* to the home network its worked with for a year, but the home network just doesn't connect to anything. A whole lotta "page is not responding" and such.
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Feb 28, 2013 19:18
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Joe Don Baker posted:If you had the serial of the MacBook I could find out. This would help immensely, I'll shoot you a PM when I get it. Thanks a lot!
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Feb 28, 2013 19:28
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kuskus posted:An SA search for "trackpad magic swap" yielded results in this thread: This is only if you bought it from the Apple site or retail store. Officially you're out of luck if you bought from a reseller. THough they did it for me any way when I asked really nicely a few times. Also the mouse doesn't come in retail box. It's in the same packaging as the keyboard and it simply wrapped with a foam thing. I just brought it in and they swapped it without needing a receipt or anything.
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Feb 28, 2013 20:20
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Would getting a 128 macbook air be stupid? My gf is looking at one, but is not sure about 256 or 128. She has a old plastic macbook with 150gb now. She has had that for like 4.5 years. She plans to keep this one a long time too. She will mostly be listening to music on spotify and watch netflix, so not much music/movies on it. She may cut some home videos and edit some photos, she will maybe play some Diablo 3, but not any newer games. If she plans to keep it for 4 year or whatever should she just bite the bullet and get 256? It's quite a lot more expensive. She's going with the 8gb ram whichever she picks. How much does the i5/i7 uppgrade change? Is it worth it?
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Feb 28, 2013 21:10
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Sistergodiva posted:Would getting a 128 macbook air be stupid? The refurb 256gb is $10 cheaper than the new 128gb on the apple refurb store http://store.apple.com/us/product/FD232LL/A/refurbished-macbook-air-18ghz-dual-core-intel-core-i5 So get the 256gb.
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Feb 28, 2013 21:12
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Don Lapre posted:The refurb 256gb is $10 cheaper than the new 128gb on the apple refurb store Sorry, we're in Sweden, so no refurb 
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Feb 28, 2013 21:17
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Sistergodiva posted:Would getting a 128 macbook air be stupid?
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Feb 28, 2013 21:21
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Bob Morales posted:Why not just get the regular Pro with the 500GB HD? You can add 8GB for like $35. She wants an air and she wants a ssd. If it where up to me I would just get her a nice pc :P
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Feb 28, 2013 21:25
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Bob Morales posted:Why not just get the regular Pro with the 500GB HD? You can add 8GB for like $35. I dont see any reason for someone to get a pro unless they just have to have a hard firewire port, not to mention the 500gb isn't solid state.
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Feb 28, 2013 21:25
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Sistergodiva posted:She wants an air and she wants a ssd. If it where up to me I would just get her a nice pc :P If you're going to get 8GB + 256GB Air, just get the 13" Retina 
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Feb 28, 2013 21:25
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Posting from my new 27" iMac. Holy poo poo this thing is sweet. I don't know what to do with all this screen real estate.
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Feb 28, 2013 21:51
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Yesterday my local Apple store agreed to replace my somewhat broken, one year out of warranty Mid-2011 15" MBP. It was a recurrent but intermittent issue and had been more than 90 days since the last repair, so right now I'm pretty happy. It's going to take 14 days to bring a replacement in though as I had BTO upgrades, and given that the machine will still be two year old spec (assuming I'm incredibly unlikely to receive a newer model?) I was thinking about selling it on and replacing it with either a 15" Retina or an Air from our UK refurb store. Prices for completed auctions on eBay for the same model peg it at a pretty small loss over the price I paid in the first place, so am very tempted. Anybody got any recommendations for or against this? The existing machine already had to he high res screen upgrade and I have an SSD to go back in it.
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Feb 28, 2013 21:53
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Neurophonic posted:Yesterday my local Apple store agreed to replace my somewhat broken, one year out of warranty Mid-2011 15" MBP. It was a recurrent but intermittent issue and had been more than 90 days since the last repair, so right now I'm pretty happy. Are they replacing the machine or the motherboard? It would be unusual for them to replace the entire machine with another 2 year old BTO.
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Feb 28, 2013 21:55
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Sistergodiva posted:Sorry, we're in Sweden, so no refurb As someone who also has no access to refurbs I have a 128GB 4GB Air and I LOVE IT seriously it loving owns.
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Feb 28, 2013 21:58
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Don Lapre posted:Are they replacing the machine or the motherboard? It would be unusual for them to replace the entire machine with another 2 year old BTO. Whole machine, I was told to bring the old machine home and carry on using it until they called me to say the new one had arrived in around two weeks' time. At that point they asked me to bring in the broken machine in box with the charger and bits that came with it. Sadly it doesn't boot any more so that was kind of a moot gesture, and I'm confined to an iPad for everything for a bit - hence assessing whether I could manage with a lower power machine like an Air, or go for something more luxury for that extra nice feel on the occasions I need to use it.
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Feb 28, 2013 22:08
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Just got a new rMBP 15". So happy. I havent used a mac in several years and some of the new OSX stuff is pretty awesome
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Feb 28, 2013 22:14
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Mu Zeta posted:This is only if you bought it from the Apple site or retail store. Officially you're out of luck if you bought from a reseller. THough they did it for me any way when I asked really nicely a few times. You got yours from B&H right? I'll probably try that too unless they give me push back.
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Feb 28, 2013 22:34
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Probably, depends on who you get.
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Joe Don Baker posted:Posting from my new 27" iMac. Holy poo poo this thing is sweet. I don't know what to do with all this screen real estate. Get used to opening lots of desktops and swiping between them all the time... Lots and lots of desktops....
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Mar 1, 2013 02:32
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How do the Logitech K750/760 keyboards compare to the Apple branded keyboards? I just snagged an external monitor for my MBP and I'd like to pick up a Mac-friendly keyboard. Wired vs. wireless isn't a big deal, since I'm docking into the monitor's USB hub for my audio interface, MIDI controller and mouse.
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Mar 1, 2013 04:19
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So it seems my 09' MBP 15 is having some issues, since my apple care expired on December and my Macbook looked pretty beat up I bought a new palmrest from eBay, got it installed and noticed the keyboard lights did not turn, sent it back to the tech who explained it was not connected, fair enough, got it back and for a few days worked somewhat normally but it showed signs of degrading performance (the machine never had its harddrive replaced since 2009), then after watching a movie and browsing around it turned it self off, eventually it would only boot on safe mode and finally it would never boot into anything without turning off. Now it refuses to turn on, I hope to God that is a hard drive issue. Any thoughts ?
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Mar 1, 2013 14:23
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Ps. Verbose mode showed "RUNTIME CORRUPTION" and then shutting down... But now when I plug in the charger shows green but nothing else.
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Mar 1, 2013 14:26
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Well it's charging now but it wont start...
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Mar 1, 2013 14:31
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Has anyone had the rubber pieces on the bottom of the MacBook Pro fall off? I've had two fall off now and it's kind of annoying. It doesn't look like Apple replaces them without me paying them to replace the entire bottom case, so I'm not really sure what to do about it.
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Mar 1, 2013 18:43
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keevo posted:Has anyone had the rubber pieces on the bottom of the MacBook Pro fall off? I've had two fall off now and it's kind of annoying. It doesn't look like Apple replaces them without me paying them to replace the entire bottom case, so I'm not really sure what to do about it. http://www.amazon.com/Bottom-Feet-Replacement-Macbook-SILVER/sim/B0055U863S/2
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Mar 1, 2013 18:47
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If you're still covered by AppleCare, Apple will replace them for free.
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Mar 1, 2013 20:38
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The laptop isn't covered. It says currently unavailable.
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Mar 1, 2013 21:04
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Here's the original vendor link: http://www.powerbookmedic.com/Bottom-Feet-Replacement-Set-Macbook-Pro-15-p-17209.html Out of stock and it costs $15 for the set of four. Almost $4 for each foot! Edit: bit of a ripoff since the original kit from Apple comes with 8 feet and a tube of glue.. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Mar 1, 2013 |
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Mar 1, 2013 21:25
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Don Lapre posted:I dont see any reason for someone to get a pro unless they just have to have a hard firewire port, not to mention the 500gb isn't solid state. CD Rom drive wired Ethernet FireWire "Wants something that won't snap" Wants more than 256GB without spending $9,000 These are all real cases that cause regular (remember, normal regular) people to buy the Pro. Will this last forever? No. But the options are there and it's still enough of a difference to land on one and be happy.
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Mar 1, 2013 22:52
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I'd say regular people are more likely to have wifi than ethernet these days, and I'm not sure FireWire has ever been all that relevant to them outside of the early years of it.
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japtor posted:I'd say regular people are more likely to have wifi than ethernet these days, and I'm not sure FireWire has ever been all that relevant to them outside of the early years of it. There's no point in arguing - any or all of those points could make or break the choice between the Air and the Pro - ill agree the optical drive and HDD are more why people would go for it.
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Can anyone please tell me what this blotch is in the middle of my screen? It only shows up against a dark background. I'm out of AppleCare. It doesn't make the machine unusable or anything but it kind of sucks. What are my options? photo by bpetiprin, on Flickr
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Mar 2, 2013 05:35
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Hard to tell cause I'm posting from my iPhone, but it looks like my brother's old pre unibody MBP where the edge of the palm rest/trackpad area caused a little scratch in the middle of the screen.
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japtor posted:Hard to tell cause I'm posting from my iPhone, but it looks like my brother's old pre unibody MBP where the edge of the palm rest/trackpad area caused a little scratch in the middle of the screen. Yup, I'd probably agree with that - my mid-2010 13" MBP has the same thing as well. Out of curiosity would Apple replace the screen because of this (under warranty of course)?
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beergod posted:Can anyone please tell me what this blotch is in the middle of my screen? It only shows up against a dark background. I'm out of AppleCare. It doesn't make the machine unusable or anything but it kind of sucks. What are my options? I have the same thing on my MBP screen, even roughly the same shape of the weird blotch (bought used, and I knew it was an issue when I bought it). I have no idea why it's there. I've tried figuring it out, but there's nothing I've tried to either get rid of it, make it worse, or explain it. Though I just checked, and the main "line" of the blotch lines up with the beginning of the palmrest/end of the keyboard, so you're prob right, japtor. That said, I don't see a scratch or anything, not even a dent, but maybe it's technically behind the screen glass? And if so, are there any guards/covers for the palmrest or screen covers or whatever that may help prevent this from getting worse?
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