Apple mac owners

oooh good on ya! Hope those new Intels are nice! I just got my old iBook back from the repair shop. Sweeties fixed up two nasty problems caused by user damage on the warranty.... gotta luv em.

that's sweet gabe - it took a lot of willpower to avoid being tempted into getting a sexy new macbook pro...

sounds like apple were very nice to you
if only apple uk would be so accommodating to these poor ipod owners.

while i'm here, does anyone have any apple-related forums they'd like to recommend?

specifically for discussion/support on os x, general mac use, photoshop, and illustrator.


cheers,


cole. x
*3moredaystogo*

for photoshop pixel2life.com has some god tutorials apart from that i've been away from the net since i've hand my mac so not much tiem to investigate...

(i got it!)




cole. x

are you posting on it now?

no, but i did bookmark hop last night as soon as i'd set it up

as easy as it was to set-up, i still had some teething problems - the first thing i tried to install didn't bloody work!

double click on the application, it appears bouncing in the dock for a couple of seconds and then disappears again

but i managed to find a replacement app fairly quickly and installed a bunch of other stuff too, including quarkxpress first thing this morning

its sooooooooooooo sexy!


cole. x

I'm super jealous Cole. My iBook just went poo up and I'm stuck in India so I do hope I can get it fixed here.
Ooo those sleek white lines just turn me on.... I wanna I wanna

hehe Coleman,, you had much fun with photobooth on your new mac yet?

yep - i now know exactly what i would look like if i were on bo selecta

i think my imac has a dodgy screen though

spent ages on the phone to apple who assed me to do lots of software things and resets before they would believe me that it blatently has a sh!t screen and that i would have to take it to an apple shop/dealer/fixer upper to get them to look at it.


the problem is that after the mac has been sleeping for more than a few hours, when i wake it up, it has funny lines down the screen that are either discolured, flicker slightly or both.

gonna leave it for a while now that the call has been logged (so they know it hasn't happened because i stepped on it or anything like that) and take it in if and when it gets worse.


cole. x

The only problem with that is that they may just give you a new one - so all your software and configs will go. You should do a full back up before you give it to them...

Sorry if that seems basic - I just know what a pain it is!

Have a look at this: http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

maybe sooner is better than later then seeing as i haven't started transferring all my files from my pc yet.

will apple be angry with me if they find naughty software on my hard disk?

not that i have any of that of course...


cole. x

In the Computer shop I ran (PCs and Macs) I found so much porn (home made was the most fun - when the wife came to pick it up....) illigal software, bank numbers, etc etc.

You learn to ignore it all and just fix the problems. I doubt apple tech support will care at all, but it might be best to back up and remove it anyway...

Now if you took it to PC world of course.... nah I'm sorry low blow lol

And if you don't get on with superduper there always Carbon Copy Cloner,, pretty good and thats what we use for the production Mac's here

little late on posting on this one, so i wont offer my mostley useless advice that i might very well have had

wow you guys know a tiny bit about computers

teach me the ways of the geek

cole my friend all i have to say is that i have a 12" ibook g4 1.2 like someone else on here, cant remember who. i got this around 5 or 6 - 8 months ago.....i think

i will NEVER go anywhere near a pc if i dont have to enough said

and guys i wouldn't mind one of these

http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/...mp;nclm=MacBook

and i almost baught me and my girlfriend a 17 inch power book to share from ebay but it turns out i didnt have the money lol

oh yeh, apple care is definately worth it

i baught 3 years with mine, but i lost the code thing to put in for it and havent looked for it, been too busy

do you guys know if i can still recover it if i have simply been dumb and lost the most important part that comes in the damn box

its late 4:46 in the morning so my posts arent making me sound too clever right here

The registration number should be registered with Applecare as soon as you buy it and 'linked' to a particular computer. That starts a file on a central database somewhere in Appleland that can be accessed by Apple shops anywhere by keying in your computer's serial number (which is under the keyboard, I think). So you don't have to carry your warranty around the world if you travel/everyone knows what's been done on it elsewhere etc. The file even has a pretty picture of your computer model on it..

If you have not already registered that number with Applecare, I suggest *yes* do find it and register, will make life very easy if you ever need to use it.

If you can't find it, call the shop you bought it from, they may have registered it for you (mine did)
Or they may have copied the number onto their invoice or sales system.

cool thanks, i got my beast from the online store so i'll wack an email their way and see what happens

I see young master Nate has used two of my favourite words there.

"wack" and "beast"

ahhh but did he get them in the right order