My Power Mac is now fuckedRefuses to turn on. Dig through the documentation Apple doesn't want you to read and you find it's either a RAM issue or a CPU issue. Their engineers are advised to yank the CPU and check none of the pins are bust. Great - if they weren't before they probably will be after that.
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boris the spider,
Tue 19 Jun 2012, 0:00,
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:(((For the kind of money they ask, their machines should be absolutely flawless. I wish they'd spend more time concentrating on whether their hardware works properly, rather than fucking about with OMG-ultra-thin-but-no-drives-or-anything-useful, dodgy music players, tarted-up magic slates, phones that you can't use to make phone calls, cloud TV or whatever their latest distraction is
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black,
Tue 19 Jun 2012, 0:12,
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they are a bigger phone company than a computer company nowI think they rely on the rabid apple fans to see no faults and buy all things.
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discomeats This canoe,
Tue 19 Jun 2012, 0:14,
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Unfortunately trueI'm typing this on a Macbook Pro and I've liked the machines I've had, but the overzealous worship that goes into so much of this is frankly alarming. Apple make nice computers - so do Sony, and so do Toshiba and HP at the higher end of their ranges.
That said, I wouldn't mind one of the Core i7 Macbook Airs for when I travel. I travel a lot and I like the idea of a computer that's actually faster than my MBP, weighing 1.5kg less. Though with the work I do the SSD might be fucked with weeks. Hmmm. This might not be as good an idea as it first looked.
(That said, I wouldn't mind one of the Core i7 Macbook Airs for when I travel. I travel a lot and I like the idea of a computer that's actually faster than my MBP, weighing 1.5kg less. Though with the work I do the SSD might be fucked with weeks. Hmmm. This might not be as good an idea as it first looked.
boris the spider,
Tue 19 Jun 2012, 0:18,
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To be fair it is seven years old nowbut even so :( It might just be a couple of RAM chips buggered in which case life is easy. If it's the CPU I may as well sell it back to Apple for the enormously generous £30 they'll give me.
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Tue 19 Jun 2012, 0:15,
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Seven years?Was the G5 really all that long ago? :'(
OH GOD WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black,
Tue 19 Jun 2012, 0:20,
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It's a late 2005 modelSo about six and a half years. They went all-out Intel not all that long after, I think.
What's even more alarming is they haven't bothered changing the case since. They probably should - it weighs a motherfucking ton.
(What's even more alarming is they haven't bothered changing the case since. They probably should - it weighs a motherfucking ton.
boris the spider,
Tue 19 Jun 2012, 0:24,
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