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Looking for advice, tips, wisdom: Adding my 1st Mac into the [tech] family...
wraith808:
it should make for an excellent cautionary tail.
-Stoic Joker (June 11, 2011, 04:25 PM)
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Already looking at it as demonic, eh?
40hz:
Actually you are probably stuffed if you want to do much with faulty memory or hard disk as Apple laptops are notoriously difficult to take apart and probably require specialist tools.
-Carol Haynes (June 11, 2011, 04:00 PM)
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For a Mac Powerbook, you'll need a T6 and T8 Torx screwdriver plus an (I forget which size) mini-Phillips. Keep track of which holes you take each screw out of too. They're not interchangeable. There's something like 6 different screws used in the Powerbook case assembly if my memory serves. Talk about smart industrial engineering practices. Is it any wonder they cost what they do? :-\
40hz:
[Desperately scrambling for a "bright side"]
If the entire experience is documented throughly, it should make for an excellent cautionary tail.
-Stoic Joker (June 11, 2011, 04:25 PM)
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;D. Evil. But still ;D.
:Thmbsup:
wreckedcarzz:
[Desperately scrambling for a "bright side"]
If the entire experience is documented throughly, it should make for an excellent cautionary tail.
-Stoic Joker (June 11, 2011, 04:25 PM)
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;D
I bash Apple all the time. I've been a long-time Mac hater. I despise having one damn mouse button. The idea of using laptop parts in a "desktop" system drives me up the wall and I use it commonly as fuel in arguments. But at least when you run into someone that is liek "z0MAI GAWD D00d U haZ a MaC tOo???" you're going to get more valuable intel and help from them than the average Dell customer who wants "lots of RAMS" and "MEMORIES for his files" and bought Norton AND McAfee because he gets "all teh spyware" from his Hotmail inbox (and the Apple hipster is like "lOl We DuN gEt ViRuSeS tHaT OnE gOiNg ArOuNd RiGhT nOw DoEsN't CoUnT cAuSe YoU gOtTa PuT YoUr PaSsWoRd In So It DoEsN't CoUnT lOlOlOl" and then proceeds to Apple+Q his copy of McAfee before the Dell dude notices). And I'd totally take the side of Linux users because I dig the idea behind it all, and the execution isn't half bad either, but then you get with people wearing digital watches and thick-rimmed glasses and start talking about how you'd like to "sudo that chick all night long" while you're in your basement/attic/someone else's basement/attic talking over Skype to 5 other people whom are having "WAY more fun in the Terminal than those newbs running Windows 7 with their DirectX and closed-source drivers and fancy transparent window borders" :P
TL;DR
I hate all the sides, I just hate Windows the least. Not due to the OS, but due to the damn people that use the OS. I guess that holds true to all three though, after typing that out. Heh.
SpoilerThat upper/lowercase "Apple-guy" line pained me so bad typing it. Not just the effort, but it actually killed a part of me.
wreckedcarzz:
Actually you are probably stuffed if you want to do much with faulty memory or hard disk as Apple laptops are notoriously difficult to take apart and probably require specialist tools.
-Carol Haynes (June 11, 2011, 04:00 PM)
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For a Mac Powerbook, you'll need a T6 and T8 Torx screwdriver plus an (I forget which size) mini-Phillips. Keep track of which holes you take each screw out of too. They're not interchangeable. There's something like 6 different screws used in the Powerbook case assembly if my memory serves. Talk about smart industrial engineering practices. Is it any wonder they cost what they do? :-\
-40hz (June 11, 2011, 05:20 PM)
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*Googles for images and bookmarks them* Good to know :) thanks
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