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Title: Another (Very) Sick Mac...
Post by: Mayo on October 27, 2006, 08:23:47 PM
Good thing I backed up our G4 iBook last night... this morning the hard drive gave up the ghost.  The iBook is a couple months short of two years old.  Thankfully I am covered with extended AppleCare.

I guess that the iMac won't be going in for repair until I get the iBook back!

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Title: Another (Very) Sick Mac...
Post by: Gregg on October 28, 2006, 06:40:50 AM
Oh no! Do you have a third?

Don't turn it on!

Problems come in threes, they say.
Title: Another (Very) Sick Mac...
Post by: Parker on October 28, 2006, 05:27:15 PM
I just hung up with AppleCare

I think the iPods are the lousiest quality music players ever
forever breaking!

and my 3-month old MacBook had a major battery problem
only retaining 42% of original capacity after 72 load cycles

when my older macbook battery after 125 load cycles hodls 85% of its original capacity
Title: Another (Very) Sick Mac...
Post by: Mayo on November 03, 2006, 06:34:31 PM
The iBook shipped on Monday and would have been back into my hot little hands on Thursday if I had been available to accept delivery of it.  I am presently using Migration Assistant to move everything from my cloned iBook backup to the iBook...

Curiously, the iBook arrived with a fresh copy of 10.3.5 on the new drive; the iBook went to Apple sporting 10.4.8.
Title: Another (Very) Sick Mac...
Post by: krissel on November 03, 2006, 11:38:36 PM
Since the drive was dead they had no way of knowing what OS you had on there. I would guess the procedure is to install whatever OS was originally on that machine at the time it shipped.

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Title: Another (Very) Sick Mac...
Post by: RHPConsult on November 04, 2006, 12:09:46 AM
Mayo:

Are you absolutely certain you didn't return from vacation with a collection of Olde World spectres, goblins or ghosts in your luggage?

Got s better "explanation"?   biggrin.gif
Title: Another (Very) Sick Mac...
Post by: Gregg on November 04, 2006, 04:02:41 AM
QUOTE(Mayo @ Nov 3 2006, 06:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Curiously, the iBook arrived with a fresh copy of 10.3.5 on the new drive; the iBook went to Apple sporting 10.4.8.


I'd be happy to send you the extra .13 (US)
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Title: Another (Very) Sick Mac...
Post by: Mayo on November 04, 2006, 01:26:02 PM
The TSA removed all goblins, etc. from my baggage because they weren't contained in ZipLoc bags...
Title: Another (Very) Sick Mac...
Post by: Parker on November 05, 2006, 02:23:49 PM
that's odd...
they usually install the latest OS when they send it back to you