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Sooo...
I have a MacBook. Its pretty hot, i like it. My boss gave me a "project" to see if we can make this work on our campus. We have a few special needs...
1. We need to be able to run in a dual boot enviroment. I have my mac running XP and OSX right now... a few tweaks and i think i will get it perfect.
2. Right clicking, lol. This is a thorn in my side... I currently can hold the "option" button and click to simulate a right click, but according to the masses.. (or the kids at the desk, thats too much work) sooo i need to come up with a fix to that.
3. Repairs.... repairs are a huge thing. I would like to see a 24 hr turn around time on laptops... Apple MAY provide this... but i dont know. I think we would become our OWN depot. Which would speed up the process, but again, i really have no experience with that.
So I am asking the eZabel community... What do you all think? Any suggestions on tweaks I can make to this system to make it work better? Suggestions? Arguments?
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whoah. i just got a macbook pro (2.16ghz, 15" widescreen) so sweet. I love it. first thing I did was install ruby 1.8.4 (it comes with 1.8.2) and then rails. and then downloaded trial version of textmate. pretty slick.
ok, actually, the first thing i did was move the dock to the left side of the screen. hello!! its a widescreen! everyone should have their dock on the left.
I had a crazy experience buying it too. maybe I'll post a journal article. basically I got a $2674 (2499+tax from Apple.com) for $2149 total.
BUT! they were a bait-and-switch outfit and I had to trick them into shipping it to me.
Pfmp.. argh... macbook, poopoobook.. already in for logic board replacement :-(
that sucks, how long did you have it for before logic board went out?
It stared with random shut offs couple of days ago... so 6-7 weeks.
I think its a malfunctioning temp sensor.
I love calling Applecare... I talk the talk, within 30 seconds I had a case number and got transfered to a specialist. Another quick convo, and dropped it off at a depot within the hour.
Sounds like alot of people are having this problem...
You too? My logic board on my powerbook went about 3-4 months after I bought it.
my old ibook needed its logic board replaced, then it needed replaced again, then i got a mac book, i hope this trend doesn't continue
no way could the hd/keyboard/monitor/wireless swap be any easier than a dell lattitude..
ram and mobo are quite simple on the lattitude as well...
never opened a macbook... but it doesn't look like it'd be simple.
Snore.....
What kind of time table?
Since there has been so much ballyhoo about the right click. Hopefully that will be taken care of with the roll out of Leopard (OSX 10.5), when BootCamp should be out of beta. (Public demo should be at the WWDC starting Aug7)
24hr repairs... define that... with Apple when I have had a problem I ship overnight they have it the day and ship back over night, is that quick enough?
BTW have you cracked one open yet?... I like it alot, RAM & HD super easy swaps. The only repairs would be for logic board swaps and screens.
If you needed a repair one could always swap hard drives 10-15min max. End user would be good to go.
well... its kinda... hm i dont know how to describe it. Its something my boss LIKES, but i have to get it all working perfectly first before we would go ahead with it. So id say i have sometime to play around with it.
24 hour turn around, aka kid drops laptop off, tuesday afternoon, recieves laptop BACK in his hands wed afternoon...
no i havent popped this one open yet... im scared to. lol
Nice... time to play.. :-)
24hrs hmm... the only way would be in house or run a shuttle to a bigger Apple store than in Rockaway, then again I don't know where your local depot is... maybe close. [if you guys get Apple portable certified, i will either be soo jealous or have to to it myself LOL]
This is what I a mean by crack open LOL not that scary....
it's easy to change the memory? cool. I'm thinking of getting a low-end MacBook Pro refurbished and upping the memory myself.