Comments on: First trip to the Genius Bar- bad hard drive http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-trip-to-t/ Sat, 26 May 2012 06:36:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Vicky http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-trip-to-t/#comment-395497 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:47:32 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/first-trip-to-t#comment-395497 My mum bought one Apple machine and she loves it so much.But am so surprised her hard drive could crash any time but since she bought the Apple computer,she has never complained.Well this had made her make regular backups online with safecopy backup because she knew anytime she can lose her data.With safecopy backup.Her files are so secure.

]]> By: Dave Zatz http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-trip-to-t/#comment-395489 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:15:10 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/first-trip-to-t#comment-395489

I’m having my Mom pick up a Mac Mini because of the Genius Bar. I’m going to outsource her tech support to Apple. ;)

I’ve used them once for MBP three issues – they first dude couldn’t help with one issue, but another guy was able to. Two issues were solved, the other they decided I have a bad optical drive which is about $300 to replace and $150 for labor – ouch. While this is a company laptop, I’m not going to saddle them with the bill since I rarely need an optical drive.

]]> By: Taxman http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-trip-to-t/#comment-395490 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:58:29 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/first-trip-to-t#comment-395490

My daughter needs to run Windows for one of her engineering classes, so I ended up giving her my MacBook with Vista in a Boot Camp partition and taking back her 12″ PowerBook that was my computer 4 computers ago. The computer has 1 Ghz processor and 768MB RAM and a 60GB drive. What am I learning? (1) Maybe Windows doesn’t need to permanently reside on my notebook. Right now, I’m just using Safari browser to log into gotomypc.com at office if I need access to Windows. (2)If I don’t need a big Windows partition on my notebook, 80GB is plenty, (3) 12″ PB is still my favorite Apple form factor of all times and Leopard isn’t bad at all even with 768MB RAM, and (4) This is still a pretty useful machine.

So, that being said, I’m more eager than ever to get my hands on a MacBook Air when they arrive at stores.

]]> By: Mike Cane http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-trip-to-t/#comment-395491 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:26:03 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/first-trip-to-t#comment-395491

All Your Disk Sectors Are Belong To Us!

]]> By: John in Norway http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-trip-to-t/#comment-395492 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:21:31 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/first-trip-to-t#comment-395492

Good one!

]]> By: James Kendrick http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-trip-to-t/#comment-395493 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:38:01 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/first-trip-to-t#comment-395493

It said so on his shirt.

]]> By: John in Norway http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-trip-to-t/#comment-395494 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:23:10 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/first-trip-to-t#comment-395494

And this makes Paul a ‘Genius’ in what way?

]]> By: Alan Reiter http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-trip-to-t/#comment-395495 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:04:30 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/first-trip-to-t#comment-395495

Hi James,

I called four Apple stores on the East and West Coasts (for a column I wrote about the MacBook Air) and they all said the same thing: They will be getting units in a couple of weeks. It seems that when Apple is ready to ship the product to consumers — the two weeks that Jobs said — the Apple stores will have them on display.

]]> By: Scott_H http://gigaom.com/mobile/first-trip-to-t/#comment-395496 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:08:58 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/first-trip-to-t#comment-395496

A bad hard drive? Already? Didn’t you just get that thing?

Are you going to be able to wipe the hard drive before Apple replaces it? Apparently, they don’t let you keep the old hard drive after they put your new one in:

http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/12/22/macsAreEvenMoreExpensiveTh.html

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