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- ********0
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if 1 green bottle should oxidentlly crawl.
- Concrete0
0 green bottles o' beer on para's HD, 0 green bottles o' beer. HD's down - whilst noones's around throw the fucking thing on the ground!
- UndoUndo0
vespa's a girl??
damn I thought she was a plastic manequin
- ********0
to-day is the day when the sa-ah-ailor gets his pay - n' he goes rollin' rollin' rollin' home.
- skelly0
happened to me twice. almost 1000 digital photos, gone.
after about a week of wanting to vomit, you get a sense of having a fresh start.
- ********0
happened to me twice. almost 1000 digital photos, gone.
after about a week of wanting to vomit, you get a sense of having a fresh start.
skelly
(Oct 12 06, 04:54)Yeah, know what you mean, it is strangely liberating... not that I ever want it to happen again!!
- chossy0
it's common for apple to keep the old one and really I don't see a problem with it, your drive is fucked so you get a new one and the old one gets given back as an exchange fair enough in my book, however what would be gay is if they kept hold of it and didn't give it back to you if you have chosen not to replace it.
I have had to replace my drives at work several times fortunatly for me I have them all configured to raid 5 so I will never lose any data when one of my drives blows up.
Apple care has actually saved us a few hundred pounds.....If you are still wondering what to do about your drive paraselene as I couldn't be arsed reading your whole thread, you should take the drive and use it to kill and maim pretty much any cunt that works at apple.then throw a cup at them.
- chossy0
actually thats fucked in my book. If you have to pay for a replacement drive (which I have never had to do with my apple care....) then you absolutely have the right to hold onto the old one, cunts.
- rafalski0
The disk keeping rule might be there to prevent fraud among apple employees. If there was no evidence left, servicepeople's friends would be getting new drives more often..
Or is it only my twisted suspicious mind?
- ********0
logical statement:
apple -> gay -> cunts!
- paraselene0
this is my question, exactly!
chossy, raf, everybody, my options, as put to me by applecare (yet to test this out in person at the store on saturday, though, they might not be all this horrid) are as follow:
1. get new drive, they keep old drive, i pay nothing.
2. get new drive for free, they outsource data recovery from old drive to a third party, i pay for this service, which STARTS at £250 (that's if they don't get anything off of it).
3. get new drive, but have to pay for it if i want to try and either take the old drive somewhere cheaper or do data recovery on my ownnow, i want to have the functional new drive for free. i am HAPPY to give them the old drive, but i am NOT happy for them to determine when, where and how i recover my own fucking data off my own fucking drive.
do you see my problem with this?
i'm thinking that if i sweetly offer to send the old drive back in once i've finished with it OR say to them, 'look. that's fine. how about you lot open up the case for me, give me MY hard drive, i go get some data off of it, meanwhile you keep your faulty product there as collateral or whatever and then i'll bring you your OTHER faulty product once i'm done trying to salvage MY ENTIRE LIFE AND LIVELIHOOD off of it and you can fix everything, keeping the old dead hard drive for your files, and give me back a functional machine. hopefully.'
they can't deny me THAT, can they?
they can't FORCE me to do my data recovery on their terms, can they?
:l
- mr_snuggles0
For the sake of Carver & Wendell, at least the Macho Data is not lost, I had the presence of mind to back it up on my calculator watch...
- paraselene0
(the reason i don't try and recover any data before taking it in is that this could invalidate my applecare insurance, so that's not an option.)
- myobie0
if you know someone else with a mac, then you can try the old firewire transfer thing
boot up you computer holding the T key, it will flash a firewire symbol on the screen
then use a firewire cable to connect your laptop to the other mac and your HD should mount on their desktop...i did this before replacing my wife's HD myself....
she didn't have applecare at all...but i got all her data off...
just don't click on any folders that you don't absolutely need, cause if they are corrupt or something it will freeze the finder and such on the other mac
hope that helps, good luck
- myobie0
also the firewire thing definitely does not void anything
it's a feature of a mac
so it's worth a try
you could even try it at the apple store with another mac there
- ********0
I have problems with my Mac at work almost every minute of everyday, I also have problems with my 'Apple' I-Pod (as everyone else does).......
I HATE APPLE!!!
I don't give a f*** how pretty my computer looks... if it doesn't work well and breaks down all the time, then what the f*** use is it to me looking good!
...If Apple concentrated as hard on making efficient products, as they do on what they look like, life would be a lot easier for us all!
...My Mac is a massive paperweight, littering my desk!
*rant over :)
- UndoUndo0
good info from myobie!! thats gotta be worth a try eh
just watch you dont get too badly burnt when teh battery explodes :D
- paraselene0
the thing is that i am only such a dedicated mac user because i have always been a mac user. my first mac was a hand-me-down from my sister when she left for uni in 1986 and i have never owned anything except macs since that time. i am on my fourth machine now, and i'd say that's pretty damn good innings for twenty years of sustained daily computer use and lots of international travel.
the thing is, right: this is the first and only time that i have ever encountered either faulty hardware or poor service on the part of apple.
they used to be the best, most reliable machines that money could buy. they'd last you five, six, seven years with nary a fault, you could plug the damn things straight into the wall in cuba, for chrisssake and they'd tick along just fine. nothing fazed them.
but obviously this is a case of the company resting on its laurels and turning out shoddy product. from the ipod to the 15" powerbooks to the new intel machines, these more recent generations appear to have retained all of the style but absolutely none of the substance of their predecessors.
i wouldn't mind so much, but i'll be fucked if i'm switching to pcs.
sure, they're cheaper, but they're disease-riddled, cheaply produced and suffer from so many regular faults that it makes one's life much more miserable.
look at my loss of sunny disposition since i had to start using them on a daily basis!
look at moth!
indisputable evidence.
okay, rant over. sorry!
:l
- paraselene0
absolutely, myobie!
i'm totally going to take everyone's advice. thanks all!
:D
- UndoUndo0
LOL @ 'look at Moth'!!
I certainly wouldnt be this grey if it werent for pcs.
I completely agree para - probably the reason i use pcs is becuase I started with em. its what ever takes yr fancy really - although the 'would you work at a studio that did have macs' comments make me wanna puke,
I hope it all works out - im sure you'll be able to charm em at applecare