I HATE APPLE

googling around it seems like airport hoisting itself on its own petard seems to be a pretty common problem. ugh

yeah, just won't turn on.

that happened to my nano after I tried using some dodgy chinese usb charger with it. did you try holding down the play button/center button for 5 seconds?

dyao, you could try deleting all memory of those SSIDs from the system keychain (use keychain access in /Apps/Utilities)

thanks, caek. I just trashed my airport prefs file and it seems to be working okay now. but yeah there are a bunch of entries in my keychain too, I'm gonna clear those out just to be safe.

when I am br0ed I will do a clean install of SL, I guess.

I think it's iphone tethering that's fucking things up tbh.

A few months ago I started getting a screen flicker on my Macbook. I sent it to the depot and they replaced a ton of stuff, but after a week of having it back the screen was starting to flicker again and in a couple weeks the Macbook stopped booting correctly. I'd have to turn it off and on multiple times to get it to boot up. Finally on Tuesday it totally gave up the ghost and I brought it in for a second round of repairs. They said they'd send it back to the depot, but when I check the website or call tech support to check on a repair status they say it's still sitting at the store. Super frustrating.

is that a MBP? the screen flickering is a common problem (happens on mine all the time but no other symptoms yet, knock on wood.)

Normal black macbook

Turned my macbook on this morning and apparently "No airport card is installed". No time to investigate beyond booting from known working backup of hard disk (where the problem is still there). Looking forward to resetting PRAM, running hardware tests from boot CDs, etc. tonight. The best bit is that AppleCare expired 1 month ago.

maybe the physical connection got unseated? I had a disappearing DVD drive that boiled down to an unseated connector. (also found two loose, unaccounted for screws when I opened it. don't have AppleCare. knock on wood)

are you near an apple store?.. go in and speak nicely to one of the geniuses, they have the power to repair it under warranty if they think you are worthy/cute/not an asshole.

yeah, i will give that a shot if the various softwarey fixes suggested online don't work out. and if that doesn't work out i will probably pop the case myself. done it before for other repairs so should be fine (and i can hear the CPU fan needs cleaning anyway). failing THAT i will go to the apple store and try to speak german at them.

none of the pram, smc, taking the battery out nonsense worked. booted from the OS install cd -- still no airport detected, which is pretty definitive. have to assume it's a hardware failure. was expecting this to cost €100, but remarkably a replacement card is €20 so assuming that fixes it (and it's not a subtle hardware problem, e.g. a fucked logic board) this may not actually cost that much. going to take the opportunity to replace the fan.

My (intel) iMac suddenly went stone dead last night - like there was a power cut, which there wasn't. Twice I booted it up and it was ok for a while and then failed each time.

Seems fine today - on 3 hours so far without a problem. It's still within Applecare warrantly upto September. Is it worth getting seen to?

This kind of thing happens to my iMac sometimes, I always suspect it's due to internal overheating, since it usually occurs in the summertime. How's the temperature in the room? If it's happening every single time you start up, I'd send it in, at most you're just wasting some time since you have Applecare.

It's still within Applecare warrantly upto September. Is it worth getting seen to?

yeah dude if it's still covered then have it seen to. that's the point of insurance!

UGH

macbook (about 3.5 years old) started shutting down without warning on sat morning - took it into apple store, dude seemed confident that the problem was the hard drive. all important stuff backed up and under warranty so fine. got it back, realised how inconvenient rebuilding your laptop so it's just how i like it is going to be, and then the fucker STARTED SHUTTING DOWN AGAIN. am so livid - really really need to have access to a laptop most days for work, 4 days without was pushing it, and it turns out they didn't even fix the problem? no idea what's going wrong now. it was fine for about 5 hours this morning and then just started shutting down with no warning every 5 minutes. this with a brand new hard drive and, i think, battery. taking it in again this afternoon and this time my mode will be confrontational and possibly furious.

is it overheating? does it get really hot?

it gets hot, but it always does surely? no hotter than it's been getting for the past 3.5 years

true - but one possible reason is that accumulated dust/grime is causing it to get so hot that it shuts down automatically. I would maybe download something like smcfancontrol or istatpro and let us know what temperature readings you're getting.

it's 67˚C atm...

seems normal - if it gets above 85-90 it'd be cause for concern...

other than that dunno - suspect it's a faulty logic board but I'm no apple tech.

yeah there seems to be a number of things it could be - the connexions betwixt hard drive and rest of computer seems likely. it had a good innings last night when i was just using text edit + google chrome, but the problems started when i was watching youtube clips and using itunes. since my first post here it's actually been fine - i turned itunes off! so it could be that.

what's infuriating is the apple so-called genius being so confident it was the hard drive, and that having no effect at all.

oooh youtube flash video - flash video will peg your cpu at 100% usage and cause your temperature to rise pretty fast. try it out and see!

i will if i can - have to go to appointment w/apple store now! you may next see me in court, where i will be charged with the actual murder of any/all apple employees i face today

it was the fan, apparently. first so-called "genius" bar replaced my hard drive for nothing. are there any reasons that apple employees don't all need to be horse-whipped?

not that i'm aware of

Ha! Great time for a revive. I just ordered a new macbook yesterday morning and when I went to open my 5-year-old ibook last night, i had to take out the battery and press the power button a bunch of times and open and close it a bunch of times in order to get anything. Like it knew I betrayed it.

has anyone had quicktime X fuck up the aspect ratio of a movie? it played fine on vlc but quicktime wanted to squash 2.35:1 to something more like 16:9.

Isn't there a button on the control bar to do that? It formats widescreen movies to fill your screen. You might have clicked it accidentally, though I'm not sure if it remembers the preference.

my macbook air makes a lot of noise when it plays flash. googling revealed that it is the fan that is making noise. also I would have problems with the date not being saved when using the battery so that the date would have to be reset upon restart. so now I don't use the battery unless I have to.

yeah, flash is terrible on osx, often uses 100% cpu, which inevitably turns the fan on.

did you try resetting the SMC for your battery/time issue? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964 and while you're at it you could try http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379.

While ago my Macbook started to crack near where my wrist rests. My Mac-phile cousins told me there was a super-double-secret-extended warranty covering just such an occurrence, and indeed, Apple fixed it for free, replacing/reinforcing where necessary. But now the damned thing is starting to crack again, and it really bugs me.

yup, I've got that too; haven't got round to taking it in for a fix yet

i've had that three times. they don't reinforce it. there is no fix. it's a design flaw that was fixed in the unibody macbooks. it's worth getting fixed. you get a brand new keyboard. looks like new!

So I can get it fixed multiple times, in perpetuity?

on mine the edges of the wrist rest thing sort of fell off. i don't really care though. also some of my keys are deteriorating! F and C especially, they are bumpy. must be something corrosive about my fingers.

so get a free new keyboard!

yes, you can do it in perpetuity if my experience is anything to go by. they have seen it 1,000,000 times. (although i haven't tried this year, which is four years since i bought it, i.e. out of the usual warranty.)

Apple doesn't replace individual keys out of warranty, though. They tried to sell me on a whole new keyboard for a couple of scuzzed letters, despite no guarantee that the same problem wouldn't happen again.

thanks, caek. I will look at those support threads and experiment.

This is starting to get ridiculous:

http://gizmodo.com/5562802/the-latest-examples-of-apples-stupid-editorial-censorship

wow, come on

£499 for an unlocked payg phone

any chance the locked-to-network payg phones will be about £50/£70 cheaper?

new mac minis too, nice

HDMI out, SD reader, the nvidia chipset, and it's tiny
http://www.apple.com/macmini/

$699, or £649 in the UK. FFS.

it does look nice but when i saw the price tag i balked

17.5% VAT is £113, so there's a £62 premium on that UK price.

bring back 2007 when $699 was the equivalent of 30p pls