I HATE APPLE

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People only care because it is Apple!

So as it stands, I’m out $400 (which as a poor college student, I’d like back)

If you can't afford to be out $400 (+ the price of whatever laptop you'll replace that one with) you are not budgetting proper.

― Courtney Gidts (ex machina), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Why?

Turns out all I have to do is bring my receipt to the Apple Store, they'll do a 1:1 exchange and add whatever iPod I want to the receipt so I can get a rebate.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

My MBP has suddenly started with the high-pitched CPU whine after 11 days (low/no-load = whine, open PhotoBooth or another high-CPU usage program, it goes away). Genius bar people are useless. Maybe [email protected] will help.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

We need this as a warning here!

WARNING: Genius bar people are useless!!!!!

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

There we go.

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Could you add one about first-gen Apple hardware being pieces of shit? Thanks.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

HAHAHAHAH jon, that's superb.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

we should do this on hair dye threads

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Contacting [email protected] totally works.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

what happened?

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?q=sjobs%40apple.com&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

I got a call from the Executive Relations dept. asking about the details (I sent a long e-mail describing everything that happened), they contacted the store I originally bought it from, and now I can go in this weekend, talk to the MOD and they'll exchange it without the restocking fee that the other store wanted to charge me.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

I think I love Apple again. Unless this MBP doesn't work either.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

do you have a 17 or 15?

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Can you post your email? With embarassing/personal shit removed?

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

15", lemme see if I can find it.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

we installed windows on our laptop. it's the first time i use it. HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU HATE APPLE IF THERE'S WINDOWS? just try windows for five minutes and feel the lurve for apple return.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 16 June 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

the processor is whining because it wants to be put out of its misery

― lf (lfam), Saturday, 17 June 2006 05:02 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

New Mac v PC ads

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 8 July 2006 09:06 (twenty years ago)

did they actually broadcast them?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 8 July 2006 09:15 (twenty years ago)

these can't be real (although i said that about the original ads).

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 8 July 2006 10:02 (twenty years ago)

just saw the other ones

these ones are not real

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 8 July 2006 10:13 (twenty years ago)

real ones aren't much better though, haha

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 8 July 2006 10:17 (twenty years ago)

ok, i have a problem with my macbook pro :-( suddenly last night i seemed to lose my internet connection, and i'm having a lot of trouble getting it back. i'm connecting wirelessly to a netgear DG834G router, and have been doing so for months. the connection shows 5 bars, but after being connected for 5 mins or so i seem to lose the ability to browse the web etc, although logging in to the router on other machines shows that my laptop's still connected. any ideas?

i've googled and found tons of problems with macbook pro airport stuff, but they all seem to happen straight out of the box, and don't seem to involve the wireless connection appearing to stay valid. hopefully this is just something really stupid...

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 13 July 2006 06:54 (twenty years ago)

cant you go to the login page?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 13 July 2006 06:58 (twenty years ago)

Have you specified DNS servers explicitly in the network setting page? The OS X networking stack seems to have this problem where it looses knowledge of cached DNS servers.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:02 (twenty years ago)

does login page = the router's admin page? if so, then no.

DNS servers - no, will do so. weirdly i noticed that my fixed IP address has changed, which seems really weird.

related, hopefully easier q: my first idea for a workaround was to connect via an ethernet cable. on xp, this would just work - you plug in and go. nothing happened on my mac, though! what do i need to do to use ethernet with the router?

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:20 (twenty years ago)

Is your Mac set to acquire an address via DHCP?

Try doing this for the ethernet interface when connecting with the cable and see what address the Mac picks up and if you can get to the management page.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:26 (twenty years ago)

ha, now it seems like i can get a connection within a foot or two of the router, but not across the other side of the room (still shows up as being connected, but doesn't work). bizarre.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:33 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, you could try forcing the router onto a different wireless channel, there maybe something causing interference. Is there another router with the same SSID in your block? You could try changing the SSID as well.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:42 (twenty years ago)

just looked again, and it had lost my static ip address again; so i put that back, and nothing happened, so put in the DNS servers as ed suggested, and it's been working for 5 mins. only annoyance is that if i try to go to the router admin page it tells me that there's another admin logged in (presumably me on the other ip address a few mins ago, as the other machine is off).

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 13 July 2006 09:17 (twenty years ago)

reboot the router

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 09:25 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i feel a bit superstitious about doing that! i'll do it once i've done everything essential...

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 13 July 2006 09:57 (twenty years ago)

s there another router with the same SSID in your block?

how would i find this out? i'm pretty sure it must be something like that, as it seems like i'm fine except when i put the computer in one corner of the lounge (which is unfortunqtely where i usuqlly work!).

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:33 (twenty years ago)

When you set up your router did you change the name of the network (the SSID) to something unique?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 10:34 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

20" core duo iMac purchased a month ago now incapable of staying up long enough to ask me what language I prefer the system reinstaller dvd to talk to me in

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

ouch

I'm relived that my battery isn't one of the recalled ones

― Ed (dali), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

did not feel that another lemon hardware issue was worth reviving the thread but I'm on hold for applecare and they just made me listen to "Ready Steady Go." I don't know what the hell the rest of this shit is but I think there was some barenaked ladies at the beginning of this ordeal and really honestly this is bar none the absolute worst hold music I've ever, ever had to deal with in my entire life of having my time wasted by waiting on understaffed CCs.

BTW the only reason I am ON HOLD is because the brilliant "Concierge" system completely fills up within hours of store opening at both Pentagon City and Clarendon. I have a hint for you fuckers, don't sell broken-ass CPUs if you can't hire enough techs to fix them. FFS.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I fully intend to be incredibly rude to any Genius Bar staff I'm forced to talk to that don't just take the box away and give me a new one with store credit for the price difference between wired and bluetooth peripherals.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

10.4.7. is a stinker.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

every upgrade with an odd third digit has been a complete horror, AFACT.

I'm not looking forward to hearing about this "restocking fee"

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

they are totally getting you back for slagging on them; BLACKLISTED

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

are they also totally getting me back for giving them thousands and thousands of dollars over the years? was waiting for you to show up and tell me something like how if I don't like listening to oakenfold over the phone I should just stay away from nextstep-based OSes

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Serious question: do all your hardware problems happen with fairly recently purchased stuff? Bathtub curve?

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

CAPTAIN SAVE AN-OS

― S-L-U-G (plsmith), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck the restocking fee bullshit. If they try to pull that on you, go home and e-mail the address I posted above. Someone from Executive Relations will get back to you in the next day and the Genius Bar/retail people can stick it.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I've basically figured out that every single problem I have personally witnessed with OSX has involved:

1) yes, that vital odd-third-digit as mentioned above
2) ITUNES

The computer was wanky to begin with (a brand new out-of-the-box no programs added computer shouldn't be refusing to wake up from sleep?) but as soon as we opened ITUNES for the first time IT STARTED EATING ITSELF ALIVE WTF? I just laugh at it at this point, especially when it wouldn't even accept the system disks or open in safe mode anymore :D

― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, guys I totally agree with you about iPhoto being a slow turd now!

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, I still have the version that tells me I should upgrade to the newest iLife. It's faster than that one, right?

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

yeah flickr + ringo punch iPhoto in its big stupid nuts

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

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