Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:33 pm Post subject: Re: RE:Desktops at university?
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...or, fixing it yourself. My girlfriend's MacBook (1,1 revision) lost its hard drive a while ago. It made a wonderful scraping and not-spinning-up sound, then displayed a flashing folder icon on the screen - I guess that's the equivalent of "hal.dll not found" in Windows. We replaced the disk and installed Ubuntu (while the new hard disk was in the mail, she ran entirely off the LiveCD). There are some lingering issues - webcam needs some sort of proprietary driver, I haven't had time to make mouseemu do right-click and middle-click correctly - but overall it's working out well for her.
Wouldn't you just reinstall Mac OS X?
ecookman
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:02 am Post subject: RE:Desktops at university?
or windows
wtd
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:20 pm Post subject: Re: RE:Desktops at university?
For what it's worth, this is fairly consistent with the rest of the industry. Cheap $800 Toshiba laptop has a motherboard that'll probably run $500 or so. If I were doing that repair out of warranty, with labour, shipping and handling and all other costs factored in, I'd probably charge at least $800 before sales tax.
x30Jx
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:18 pm Post subject: RE:Desktops at university?
I think I have come to my conclusion:
I am going to sell my PC, this summer, and but a 2009 Mac Mini with the cash. Meanwhile, I will be saving up for the Macbook Pro I will be buying just before University. This will allow a few things:
Me to have a backup computer in case anything goes wrong
me to get a mac ASAP
me to have a computer that can be used as an almost dedicated entertainment system, but also torrent downloader, video converter, and will enable me to multitask more efficiently.
Cult of Apple, here I come!
endless
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:40 pm Post subject: RE:Desktops at university?
Welcome to the dark side, you will discover powers you never thought possible.
x30Jx
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:57 pm Post subject: RE:Desktops at university?
can I stop those I love from dying?
Oh my god I am such a nerd. Someone get em out of the basement and drunk RIGHT NOW.
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