Author Topic: Another (Very) Sick Mac... (Read 2284 times)

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!

Gregg · « **Reply #1 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.

Parker · « **Reply #2 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

Mayo · « **Reply #3 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.

krissel · « **Reply #4 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.

RHPConsult · « **Reply #5 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"?

Gregg · « **Reply #6 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)

Mayo · « **Reply #7 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...

Parker · « **Reply #8 on:** November 05, 2006, 02:23:49 PM »

that's odd...
they usually install the latest OS when they send it back to you

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