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Sun 21 Mar 2010 11:12
Macbook Users - deepwith

Just a bit of useful info really. My hard drive died on my Macbook which is well out of warranty. Took it into apple on Friday and picked it up yesterday. They had replaced the hard drive and up graded it from 60 gigabyte to 160 gigabyte plus replaced the casing as it was a bit scruffy! cost? two trips up to Southampton. also the chap advised me on how best to upgrade the RaM myself, rather than paying them, so I could use Leopard - see, pays to be nice!

For those Mac users, apple are replacing casings on their computers which are showing signs of use/age, so worth a trip into an apple store if yours is battered.

Edited by deepwith on 21/03/2010 at 11:12

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Sun 21 Mar 2010 14:37
Macbook Users - Avant

Many thanks, Deepwith, for passing this on. SWMBO has a Mac and I'm always rather glad that I don't - but opinions will always differ. Some will swear by them, others swear at them.

'Pays to be nice' - indeed. It doesn't mean giving in to bad service, but rather getting a better chance of good service by being polite and yet determined, as you clearly were.

Edited by Avant on 21/03/2010 at 14:38

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Sun 21 Mar 2010 19:06
Macbook Users - WellKnownSid

I've always heard good stories about the apple stores and support - I made the (painless) transition to the Mac about three years ago and never looked back.

If you've upgraded from Tiger, then you'll find TIme Machine a useful feature for the next time your hard drive fails ;) Use it with any USb/FW external drive, or get a Time capsule.

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Sun 21 Mar 2010 19:15
Macbook Users - rtj70

i also upgraded to a Mac last year. a good decision. but i like Unix (i got Linux installed on my first Pc in 1993).

avant you're wrong about Macs. ;-) So far 50% of the moderators have Macs.

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Sun 21 Mar 2010 20:44
Macbook Users - Altea Ego

i also upgraded to a Mac last year. a good decision. but i like Unix (i got Linux installed on my first Pc in 1993).

avant you're wrong about Macs. ;-) So far 50% of the moderators have Macs.

Despotic would be dictators can't be wrong cant they;)

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