Sometimes, unless it's toast in a particularly annoying way. Google how to "reset open firmware" for your model, and see if that works. I have had extremely weird machine glitches with a dying hard drive, and both times was able to temporarily revive the laptop long enough to copy some data off by trying to boot about twenty times and resetting the firmware.
― mh, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't want to be a hater, but my Apple hardware kind of sucks in terms of quality
If it helps balance stuff out: every single piece of Apple kit I've ever bought (starting with a PB5300 in 1996) is still in perfect working order ... well, OK, the first-gen iPod is a bit fucked, but that's because I dropped it. Hellfire, a ceiling fell in on the 5300 and it still works.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
if you don't have a backup and this option is easy for you, i would pop the hard drive and back up before proceeding with anything.
― caek, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
a ticking noise can also be the power supply. Do you hear the drive spinning up at all? Does the optical drive make its whirry eject sound? If neither happens it could be the power.
― stet, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
The hard disk doesn't make any sort of noise at all. The screen doesn't light at all and it can't power USB devices at all.
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeh sounds like some part of the power system is fucked in that case
― stet, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
uh ohxpost
― resistance is feudal (WmC), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
My Macbook hard drive died last week after only 18 months service :/.
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
the power supply died on my old imac and i took it to tekserve and they replaced it in ten mins and apple covered the bill automatically even tho i wasnt under warranty - greatest customer service experience of my life
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
my power supply died yesterday morning so i phoned applecare and had a new one in the mail this morning. that was pretty cool.
― caek, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
why do mac power supplys suk so bad
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
lol get a pc
― admin log special guest star (DG), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
pcs suk tho
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
j/k
― admin log special guest star (DG), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
iphone problem: not sure how long my phone has been doing this but about a week ago i noticed my phone isn't picking up my home wi-fi connection. i had been successfully using my phone with my home wi-fi for several months, and hadn't changed any network settings or anything. my home laptop and my wife's iphone both still recognize my home wi-fi. i have reset my network connections on my phone and restored my phone; neither helped. anything else i should try before taking it to the store? i guess i could take it somewhere else with wifi and see if it is detecting wi-fi at all, as it's not showing any networks at all, not even my neighbors'
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
weird iPhone problem when I try to update my apps: "there is a billing problem with a previous purchase. go to the iTunes store on your computer and select purchase history ... etc"
too bad computer is in for logic board replacement :-/
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 14 May 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I think under Applecare, if your Mac gets serviced three or more times you're entitled to ask for a brand new replacement from the current line-up; not sure, might wanna check with all the Apple fanboys at one of dem Apple fanboys forums.
― Can't stop the dancing chickens (dyao), Thursday, 14 May 2009 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I got a brand new 17" MBP. Hopefully I wont be seriously posting on this thread anytime soon.
― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Thursday, 14 May 2009 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Apple PSU's do indeed suck (inverter boards too). What is even suckier is they won't license the magsafe design so you can't get a Targus or Kensignton or whatever replacement.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Thursday, 14 May 2009 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link
some dude online made a replacement adapter by shoving a paperclip or something onto a regular adapter.
they really shouldn't license the magsafe though, because it hasn't been very safe so far right?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 14 May 2009 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not the magsafe that is unsafe it is the retched short strand braided wire they have insisted on using for far too long. It generates hotspots and can melt and short. This laptop is doing better though, only 2 power supplies in three years compared to the 5 I went through with my G3 powerbook.
― Prince of Persia (Ed), Thursday, 14 May 2009 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been through two batteries on my MBP and my present battery keeps its charge for about 2 minutes. The exhaust fan sounds seriously sick. The locking mechanism on the cover is broken. The right shift key broke, and I was offered a new keyboard for like a $100 - no thanks.
It's a shitty computer, but it's a great computer, and I love it.
― Super Cub, Thursday, 14 May 2009 06:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i noticed my phone isn't picking up my home wi-fi connection
Do you mean it can't see it at all, or it's not defaulting to it? Mine is a PITA with this: for no reason, it'll decide it wants to connect to my neighbour's router instead of mine sometimes and I need to go back in to Settings/Wi-Fi and re-select mine. Unless I'm missing something, there's no "default to this" or "favourite networks" option.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 14 May 2009 08:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm on my third power supply for my mb, the casing has cracked in the way that all mb casings crack, my iphone microphone has a persistent echo, the logic board on my old ibook fried itself, and I've had several generation of ipods die
pc sux tho
― zinguist (cozwn), Thursday, 14 May 2009 09:14 (fourteen years ago) link
my iphone microphone has a persistent echo
Do you mean people you're talking to say "dude, this is echoing to fuck"? If so, dead simple: crank down the speaker volume. A crappy design flaw, I'll admit, but easy enough to avoid.
What am I today, Cap'n Save-an-Apple?
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 14 May 2009 09:40 (fourteen years ago) link
wtflol tht fixes it? shiiiiiiiii-!
― zinguist (cozwn), Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
looked online, apparently lots of people have had this problem and there is no real solution. i took it to the apple store, they saw me an hour before my appointment, looked at it for literally about three minutes, then gave me a new phone, so i don't hate apple
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 14 May 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, installing the 10.6 beta did not work out well at all. So now we again test the limits of restoring the system from a Time Machine Backup. I'll let you know in... 1 hour and 21 minutes, it says here.
― Black bread and Victory gin AGAIN? (kenan), Thursday, 6 August 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
what went wrong?
― caek, Thursday, 6 August 2009 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
It installed, seemed to work, then wanted to update itself. Updates downloaded, seemed to install, but it would never boot again.
― Black bread and Victory gin AGAIN? (kenan), Thursday, 6 August 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not going to spend a lot of time diagnosing weirdness on a beta. If it doesn't work, drop back and punt.
― Black bread and Victory gin AGAIN? (kenan), Thursday, 6 August 2009 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
it works well in vmware, once you install the vmware hackz
― stet, Thursday, 6 August 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
UGH
i have that problem now where the keyboard has made little keyboard shaped marks all over my macbook pro screen. i thought it was just finger grease but neither iklear nor goo gone can get the marks off. any suggestions for a sort of LCD polish that'll take the marks off?
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
this is the unibody glass screen?
― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Thursday, 13 August 2009 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I've never seen that happen before... Not good!
― your vah chef (fields of salmon), Thursday, 13 August 2009 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
no it's an old aluminum body macbook pro
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 13 August 2009 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i have keyboard marks on regular macbook but i'm not very gentle with it at all. i've just sort of accepted it.
― permanent response lopp (harbl), Thursday, 13 August 2009 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm with a matte or glossy display? if iklear and goo gone can't get the marks off, then they may be permanent :*(
― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Thursday, 13 August 2009 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
What the fuck is all this "I can't use ILM because I have a Mac!!" horseshit?
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 29 August 2009 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
?
― akm, Saturday, 29 August 2009 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't open ILM on a Mac...anyone have any ideas?
Zing: A (beta) ILX client for Macs
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 29 August 2009 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
What the fuck is all this "Soulseek doesn't work on Macs" horse shit?
Seek into your soul, you'll find it― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, September 5, 2009 2:37 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinkthat made me chuckle, but i am on a mac--why didn't i wait until 9/10 to switch over from pc! thanks though― iago g., Saturday, September 5, 2009 2:38 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, September 5, 2009 2:37 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
that made me chuckle, but i am on a mac--why didn't i wait until 9/10 to switch over from pc! thanks though
― iago g., Saturday, September 5, 2009 2:38 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
Ummm... I thought Macs were supposed to be good. That's reason enough not to buy one!!
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 5 September 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― fleetwood (max), Saturday, 5 September 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
is that a new thing? I used to use soulseek on a mac all the time.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 5 September 2009 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Snrub, the first thread you linked mentioned that there were platform-independent connection issues and it wasn't OS-related. The second thread is about a program made to view ILX outside of a browser, for those that would prefer such a thing -- no such thing exists for Windows or any other platform, so that would be a mac-positive, not negative.
There are also soulseek clients for mac os.
― mh, Saturday, 5 September 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
both of which have been abandoned by their developers.
― cashew and green pea pulao (fields of salmon), Sunday, 6 September 2009 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
but at least one of which still works just fine.
― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Sunday, 6 September 2009 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
lol soulseek
I am posting from 2009 how about you?
― capn save a noob (cozwn), Sunday, 6 September 2009 01:54 (fourteen years ago) link
also soulseek works fine on mac
http://apps4macs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ssx.png
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 6 September 2009 02:54 (fourteen years ago) link