I HATE APPLE

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http://uk.gizmodo.com/5801275/you-cant-upgrade-the-hard-drive-in-the-new-imacs

thats what external drives are for i guess. as a mbp user i have 3 external drives - 1 500GB, 1 1TB and I just got a new 1TB. its pretty ridiculous but it does get you in the habit of saving your docs externally so if the thing dies im not going to cry over lost data.

i should back stuff up one tof these days.

nothing shocking in that macstories / fortune article to me, that just sounds like how a successful company should be run, frankly.

Really need to stop listening to Gruber's podcast. This week he "doesn't get" why a Google Chromebook costs $20 a month to rent, he's "never heard" of the iFlow iPhone app and he's "really surprised" Steve Ballmer is still CEO of Microsoft. Co-host Dan Benjamin "doesn't get" how you copy music onto an Android phone. It's amazing how these technological savants managed to adapt to iOs after being raised on Macs.

Gruber is a zombie best ignored. If ever he announces anything of worth all the tech sites pass it on anyway.

Daring Fireball is still in my RSS feed (mainly cuz it mostly consists of quickly read one-liners) but yeah it's getting increasingly cringeworthy

It's just told-ya-so posturing and a level of arrogance that makes Jobs look humble.

i have my first appointment with a genius tomorrow. hard drive died. i've already replaced it myself, but i want them to pay for the new drive, so i'm putting the dead one back in for my genius date. i think this is actually my first hardware problem in the post apple store era. any tips for getting what i want given i know the problem and fix?

Dan benjamin's even worse imo

make goo goo eyes at the genius xp

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How long did your hard drive last? I've got a 4 year old iMac that I'm dreading dragging to the Genius desk when the HD fails. (I'm a pedestrian)

9 months?

love it when a paranoid backup strategy comes together. mechanical hard drives are like parking on the hard shoulder imo.

Not too sure how the long-term life of SSDs is going to pan out, either. Lots of reports of failures from people using them in servers, so maybe there'll be a rash of laptop SSD deaths in a few years.

I've encoded all my data into a vat of self replicating DNA

Thanks to threads like this I have min. two backups of everything now. Where travel photos are concerned I've put in place redundancy up the goona — two backups at home, one in the spare room, one in the car and one at the wife's office. Six copies, not counting highlights on the ipad, P's facebook &c.

^^^ knows what's up

didn't know that about SSD hds. they were my great hope.

ive thought about making an I HATE JOHN GRUBER thread many times.. the dude is so fucking insufferable. someone needs to make an rss feed that strips out any of his commentary and just passes on his links

And yet we're all still reading DF...

I unsubscribed last year sometime, but I enjoy watching you guys grouse about it.

I unsubscribed last year sometime, but I enjoy watching you guys grouse about it.

To be fair though, I agree with him about Ballmer being a plague on Microsoft.

I have no idea what kind of leader Microsoft needs, although Ballmer is probably not it.

I would kind of be a total moron to buy an iPhone 4 right now if I have a 3gs, right?

I recognize this, but keep telling myself I could probably resell it and buy yet another phone at the end of the year if I felt it necessary.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/05/11/green-day-rip-this-joint
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/05/11/cameron

ladies and gentlemen, mr john gruber.

― caek, Wednesday, May 12, 2010 1:43 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have my first appointment with a genius tomorrow. hard drive died. i've already replaced it myself, but i want them to pay for the new drive, so i'm putting the dead one back in for my genius date. i think this is actually my first hardware problem in the post apple store era. any tips for getting what i want given i know the problem and fix?

― caek, Tuesday, May 17, 2011 8:47 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol this was great. the (cute) genius just said, "yes, hard drive", checked there was one in stock ON IPHONE and then i went and got a coffee while they put it in. they also cleaned off the "general dirt" they euphemistically described my dead skin/sneezes as. A+ would visit again.

when the genius bar appointments go well, they go great

I took one in and just said "bad hard drive" and the guy said "smart status?" and I was all like "failing!"

After that it was just me heading out and coming back the next day since they had an installation queue.

based upon experience (and then confirmed by an apple genius friend), the apple geniuses have the power to choose whether or not to comp a repair out of warranty. i like this because it's pretty easy to smile, be nice and friendly

speak for yourself

i know i know computers have a way of making me irrationally angry (ive broken a few computer things with my fist X:)

but u gotta take a chill pill if u want free apple stuff

my great regret is not purchasing an applecare warranty

but my mbp is coming up on three years anyway so

Buy them aftermarket on ebay or somewhere, if you do. Some are the same price, but the markup for resellers is huge so there are always some shady ones who sell it for cheap.

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I would kind of be a total moron to buy an iPhone 4 right now if I have a 3gs, right?

I recognize this, but keep telling myself I could probably resell it and buy yet another phone at the end of the year if I felt it necessary.

― mh, Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:55 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark

wont you lose your upgrade eligibility for a year? Some asshole tried top smash my car a few weeks ago and i swerved so sharply my 3GS went flying. When I picked it up I realized the power button, headphone jack, mute switch and volume bar weren't working. i called ATT to see if I needed to sign up for another two years if I got the $45 3GS. She said that to get the $45 deal I would have to sign up. To get a 3GS without reupping my contract it would cost me $250 for the new 3GS plus $300 something for some kind of sticking with my current contract fee. Worst part was that if I went for the $45 + 2 year contract deal i wouldn't be eligible for upgrade until May 2012.

Anyway in the end I just opened the phone up and found a loose connector. I plugged it back in and everything works just peachily. Took 10 minutes. Sure beats 2 years or $550+.

So yeah. Just wait until September or if you cant wait get an ipad 2.

Nah that's straight up bullshit they let you upgrade at 18 months. My shitty plan was to get a discounted 4 now, flip it for $400 or a little more when the new one's been out a bit, and pay full price for the new one.

Yes, stupid plan, just wanted to waste lots of money.

heh my dvd drive stopped working one day, wasn't recognized in osx. opened it up, loose cable, plugged it in voila.

but now it won't take DVDs, pretends it's already got one. fuckin A

Mh ATT allow you to upgrade in 12 months (i assume because apple bring out a new phone each year). The thought did cross my mind to get the 4 but I'm still kind of pissed that they had everyone calling it 'iPhone 4G' when ATT wouldn't release 4G for another 9 or 10 months which was a moot point anyway because the gen 4 can't even run 4G. Also, I've been waiting almost a year for iPhone 5 and adding on another 9 months because I wasted my upgrade would be ridiculous.
However, flipping it isn't the worst idea. I checked out 3Gs' on EBay expecting them to be super cheap but they're all around $300 I guess because they're all jailbroken which takes what? 10 minutes?

Anyway, if iPhone 5 isn't 4G capable I'm probably going to lose my shit come September

lol the hd they replaced last week has failed. took it in this morning but they don't have the part in stock. should be in in 48 hours.

in the meantime, two hdds in a week seems suspicious. has anyone ever heard of a problem with a computer (software or hardware) that kills the hard drives connected to it?

get ready to lose your shit xp

are 4g networks up in the US yet?

Not in any widespread useful way. In the largest cities, you can't get full extended 3G speeds, so the data infrastructure needs upgraded, not just the towers.

its a weird situation. i mean has anyone decided what 4G is yet? we know it must have a speed of 1GB per second download. Now the latest LTE is that fast so is that 4g now? sprint came on the scene, what, 3 years ago? claiming some kind of 3G/4G network but it was actually just wimax and had a download speed of 10MB per second. crazy blatant lies. Even now their '4G' doesnt reach the standard 1GB per second. anyway verizon release a LTE network that meets 4G standards a little while back and ATT just released the same thing. how many handsets are actually 4G capable is another story altogether.

i haven't been following this thread but the next iphone probably won't be 4g

why not? i mean are they really going to hold out until 2012? I think south korea almost have 5G down and ready to go

i don't know really have any info, i just feel like that's what i heard someone say? that they might want to wait until 4g is more of a thing or whatever? idk

(i'm totally out of my depth)

OMG theyre going to pull a sprint on us:

http://www.iphone5rumours.com/2011/05/may-6th-iphone-5-will-likely-be-4g-yet-not-any-faster/

"This news caught most people by surprise, mostly because it was under all of our noses this entire time. 9to5Mac reported today that the next iPhone; presumably the iPhone 5, is very likely to be 4G.The report states that AT&T has been calling older 14.4 Mbps HSPA devices as ’4G’ in their stores and marketing campaigns although 4G was traditionally thought to be reserved for devices that are more than the 14.4 Mbps that they currently are.

Technically, smartphones should be performing at a noticeably higher speed to be called 4G, but since smartphones like the HTC Inspire 4G and Motorola Atrix 4G have called themselves ’4G’, AT&T has gone ahead and changed the definition of what 4G is as a smartphone that carry speeds up 14.4 Mbps (cue Shakespeare’s ‘what’s in a name?’ line)."

14.4 mb IS NOT EVEN CLOSE AT&T. FUCKERS.

The tech that t-mo is advertising as 4g is the same speed as the higher-speed 3G you get on AT&T etc

why not? i mean are they really going to hold out until 2012? I think south korea almost have 5G down and ready to go

― Serial Chiller (sunny successor), Tuesday, May 24, 2011 8:03 AM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

I always feel like it's kind of misleading to point out east asian countries have more advanced cell phone networks. most east asian countries are the size of rhode island, it's much easier to upgrade the infrastructure when the country is so small. america's fucking huge!!

why not? i mean are they really going to hold out until 2012? I think south korea almost have 5G down and ready to go

― Serial Chiller (sunny successor), Tuesday, May 24, 2011 1:03 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the first iphone didn't have 3g despite it being widely available even in the usa. 3g had been in use in the consumer markets in europe and asia for ten years before iphone, and you can't buy 4g phones anywhere in the world yet afaik. i don't think 4g is a possibility for the next iphone. i don't think western consumers care yet either.

maybe if apple were based in korea (or basically any country except one with a cellular network/industry like lol usa) they'd be a leader rather than follower on this stuff, but apple has never really been motivated by standards in use outside the us.