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Less than 3 months old and the battery is dead. 3 months.
how shit is that? and you just KNOW that the bloke in the shop is going to tell me that its a consumable and that i need to spend £100 on a new one.
Its going back tomorrow....:mad::mad::mad:
(angry? moi? no, bloody livid....)
sideways14a
08-12-2009, 22:35
What is it with Apple and electricity? :p
They dont seem to have a good relationship, there has been a few "issues" with batterys in macbooks, and of course the well documented "issues" with ipods and iphones (er and melting lot)
Maybe apple are working on electricery-2, uses donkey piss from a donkey piss filling station to power your electronic gadgets for a week at a time. Except in a few years we will run out of donkeys and everyone will be running hybrids instead that run on cat piss.
Or some jibberish like that.
PS dont take any of there shit, tell them it goes to the computer press if they play like dicks... :nod:
Problem is, theres a ton of issues with the batteries and even on apples forum, theres people complaining about them!! :rolleyes: :(
Sony battery.....'nuff said...:(
What is it with Apple and electricity? :p
Like everything in the industry its cheaply made in China (not the electricitay :wack:) .. Hence Dell laptop batterys explode and HP screens loose pixels quicker than whores loose there knickers.
Its a product of a company like ever single other company I can name.
"how can we increase profit" ........ "lower manufacturing costs" :indiff:
sideways14a
09-12-2009, 09:26
The less said about Dell crap exploding the better...:D
Well, that was an education....i went in there all ready to have it out with them and the bloke searched on their system for my purchase. Its nearly 12 months ago that i bought it.:eek: :)
Still, its covered by the warranty but i have to book an appointment with the genii to get a new one.
PLugged it in when i got to work today, and the battery is fine.
I'm convinced its a connection problem now, so i twist each of the terminals a touch to see if it improves.
Lo and behold.....its fine....stupid ass connections...:(
I had the exact same problem.
It started off working with a little twist then gave up completely.
Spoke to Apple and they changed it out of warranty :nod:
Got a genii appointment on monday, although i've bought a new one for £45. sorted.
nitrodave
11-12-2009, 17:05
apple changed the battery in my macbook when out of warranty after it died from not using it for 6 months... no questons asked. they even offered to fit a new keyboard and cover free of charge as mine is'worn' yet out of warranty. i don't care what anyone says, apple customer service really is second to none.
:thumbs:
I'm hoping they'll change it, but you never know...:)
Apples warranty is fantastic. They will 100% change it for free if it still has warranty.
Apples warranty is fantastic. They will 100% change it for free if it still has warranty.
Apples customer care and service is top dog in my books ..... their hardware maybe shoddily made and assembled by slaves in China, But what they save in shipping poorly made tat, they give back by having a shorter waiting list than your Doctors and pretty much replace anything at the drop of a hat.
Infact I have an apointment at 6 tomorrow in a store to swap out a chineese harddrive for another chineese hardrive :indiff:
Apples customer care and service is top dog in my books ..... their hardware maybe shoddily made and assembled by slaves in China, But what they save in shipping poorly made tat, they give back by having a shorter waiting list than your Doctors and pretty much replace anything at the drop of a hat.
Infact I have an apointment at 6 tomorrow in a store to swap out a chineese harddrive for another chineese hardrive :indiff:
Good old chinese slavery..the computer world (gates and jobs alike) would be fecked without them....:nod: :thumbs:
Laptop hard drive? i changed mine myself. bit nerve wracking to open up your most prized posession, but quite simples...:)
Macbook pro went from a 100gig to a 380gig hdd..:D
My ebay purchase turned up today, apple battery price=£90...ebay battery price=£44.
I'll still go and get the other one changed, so that when it dies in 11 months, i'll have a a spare.
Laptop hard drive?
Nah, Brand new 27" imac :rolleyes: ..... that lasted a long time then.
I would change it myself, but seeing that I am only 2 days into the warrante, they can do it.
For the best part the drive is fine, boots in 7 seconds, wakes in 2 seconds ... blisteringly quick performance. But put it to sleep overnight and it can take 2 mins to wake up as the drive sits there and does this
wheeeeeeeeee CLUNK ... wheeeeeeeeee CLUNK ... wheeeeeeeeee CLUNK ... wheeeeeeeeee CLUNK ... wheeeeeeeeee CLUNK ... wheeeeeeeeee CLUNK ... wheeeeeeeeee CLUNK ... wheeeeeeeeee CLUNK
not strickly an apple issue, more of a seagate one :whip: .. But I am sure the drive is assembled in China before being put into the mac ... in china ... by slaves
Can i recommend carbon copy for moments like that? Backuptastic! :wack: :D
a mate of mine recommended it to me, bang in an external hdd, carbon copy your drive and then update every now and again.
Seems to be more effective than time machine as this does the whole thing! :)
Can i recommend carbon copy for moments like that? Backuptastic! :wack: :D
a mate of mine recommended it to me, bang in an external hdd, carbon copy your drive and then update every now and again.
Seems to be more effective than time machine as this does the whole thing! :)
nice tip ... I'll give it a go, I am currently reassessing my backup strategy as its as confusing as fcuk ... AND these days hardware is getting more and more unreliable :rolleyes:
Was considering time machine, but it seems a bit "too" apple for my liking, so have currently been manually doing it to a NAS ... ever had to restore a whole OS using carbon copy ? .... or is it aimed mainly at personal data ?
CC literally makes a complete carbon copy of the drive that you target, onto your backup drive.
It does take a while, but then i was shuffling nearly 100gig across to my porsche lacie 250g(firewire happyness..:D).
New battery! :thumbs: win!! :)
I've used CC before, and an alternative one that's also similar (Can't remember what it's called).
Did a clone from one drive to the other, removed first drive and it would boot off the second. It worked very well for upgrading a HDD :)
My work laptop backs up via time machine to my NAS at home. It seems to work OK, I've pulled some files back with no problem but not needed to do a full recover yet - I'd probably rebuild with a fresh copy of OSX and restore my documents rather than trying to rebuild the entire laptop from backup.
Did a clone from one drive to the other, removed first drive and it would boot off the second. It worked very well for upgrading a HDD :)
Tis exactly how i did mine. Booted off me lacie and copied it back...:)
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