I bought an Aluminum late 2007 20" iMac and I'm considering returning it. I put in 4GB ram and it ran beautiful for the first 4 months then began the random shutdowns and it took several tries to get it start up without shutting down. Also the wireless mighty mouse is defective, it looses its ability to detect one finger right clicks for long periods of time so I put it in a drawer and have yet to get it exchanged. I did check several forums and guides to make sure I was using the mouse correctly and that it seemed to match others situations where it was deamed defective.

I procrastinated on sending it in for repairs since I have AppleCare and also I didn't realize that I could have it repaired by an Apple certified tech in my own city. The problems began in Feb 08 and I sent it in finally in September when the random shutdowns happened constantly, and I bought an external HD to backup with Time Machine first. It turned out to be a defective logic board and the shop that repaired it was quick and pretty helpful.

About a month after that it is back to its random shutdown and no startup habits, and I took it away to use while I was away with work for a month. I was pretty embarassed to be there with Vista users being able to criticize my iMac for being a peice of junk, considering I had just had it repaired.

I am pretty loyal to Apple products, in my house between me and my wife we have: a MacBook, iMac, Airport Extreme, 2 iPods, 2 iPhone 3G's and I was planning on getting either an Apple TV or Mac Mini to use as a home theatre to replace our satellite tv service for the holidays. I have used Mac's for years and I am generally very pleased although I am feeling pretty embarassed and ripped off considering my defective iMac with defective mighty mouse. I mean paying $1,500 for a computer that has amazing features but can't be used for more than 5 mins without a shutdown (using the wifes MacBook for this).

I have obviously been sold a lemon and still have almost 2 years on my AppleCare and I have read most of the policies and documentation although I want to know from other peoples experiences whats the best option to go for:

1) I have already been looking at getting a Mac Mini and a good size NAS/home server if I am going to make a Mac home theatre. I am also a gamer and have noticed the lack of upgradability in most Mac's so I might just demand a refund for my iMac(I still have all the packaging and everything it came with) and then get a Mac Pro. It would eliminate the need to get multiple devices, iMac for graphics intensive gaming, Mac Mini and NAS/home server for a home theatre and its upgradability would mean a much longer life usage for my needs. I could hook it up in my living room for use as the home theatre, gaming or general computer use and I don't mind using my iPhone (if the wife wants to use the tv) instead since its such a joy to use. I'm wondering how good Apple is about refunding defective Mac's after 1 year when you have AppleCare.

2) Demanding a replacement for my iMac and sticking with the Mac Mini and NAS home theatre idea. This would probably be the most painless option when dealing with Apple and I'd feel guilty to take advantage of their warranty to correct my own short-sighted purchase but I think being a loyal customer that was sold a lemon entitles me to some compensation.

3) Playing another round of Russian Roullette on trying to get my current iMac repaired(if it can be) locally without replacement.

Any advice or suggestions are appreciated, and I know this rants a bit long but this issue has been plaguing me for almost a year.

via MacNN:

Apple's first German retail store is due to open this week, the company has announced. The shop is situated at 1 Rosenstraße in Munich, and will throw open its doors at 10AM local time this Saturday, December 6th. Visitors will of course be able to test Macs, iPods and iPhones; as an incentive to arrive early, the first 2,500 people to come will be given a free Apple t-shirt. Although the store...


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I bought an Aluminum late 2007 20" iMac and I'm considering returning it. I put in 4GB ram and it ran beautiful for the first 4 months then began the random shutdowns and it took several tries to get it start up without shutting down. Also the wireless mighty mouse is defective, it looses its ability to detect one finger right clicks for long periods of time so I put it in a drawer and have yet to get it exchanged. I did check several forums and guides to make sure I was using the mouse correctly and that it seemed to match others situations where it was deamed defective.

I procrastinated on sending it in for repairs since I have AppleCare and also I didn't realize that I could have it repaired by an Apple certified tech in my own city. The problems began in Feb 08 and I sent it in finally in September when the random shutdowns happened constantly, and I bought an external HD to backup with Time Machine first. It turned out to be a defective logic board and the shop that repaired it was quick and pretty helpful.

About a month after that it is back to its random shutdown and no startup habits, and I took it away to use while I was away with work for a month. I was pretty embarassed to be there with Vista users being able to criticize my iMac for being a peice of junk, considering I had just had it repaired.

I am pretty loyal to Apple products, in my house between me and my wife we have: a MacBook, iMac, Airport Extreme, 2 iPods, 2 iPhone 3G's and I was planning on getting either an Apple TV or Mac Mini to use as a home theatre to replace our satellite tv service for the holidays. I have used Mac's for years and I am generally very pleased although I am feeling pretty embarassed and ripped off considering my defective iMac with defective mighty mouse. I mean paying $1,500 for a computer that has amazing features but can't be used for more than 5 mins without a shutdown (using the wifes MacBook for this).

I have obviously been sold a lemon and still have almost 2 years on my AppleCare and I have read most of the policies and documentation although I want to know from other peoples experiences whats the best option to go for:

1) I have already been looking at getting a Mac Mini and a good size NAS/home server if I am going to make a Mac home theatre. I am also a gamer and have noticed the lack of upgradability in most Mac's so I might just demand a refund for my iMac(I still have all the packaging and everything it came with) and then get a Mac Pro. It would eliminate the need to get multiple devices, iMac for graphics intensive gaming, Mac Mini and NAS/home server for a home theatre and its upgradability would mean a much longer life usage for my needs. I could hook it up in my living room for use as the home theatre, gaming or general computer use and I don't mind using my iPhone (if the wife wants to use the tv) instead since its such a joy to use. I'm wondering how good Apple is about refunding defective Mac's after 1 year when you have AppleCare.

2) Demanding a replacement for my iMac and sticking with the Mac Mini and NAS home theatre idea. This would probably be the most painless option when dealing with Apple and I'd feel guilty to take advantage of their warranty to correct my own short-sighted purchase but I think being a loyal customer that was sold a lemon entitles me to some compensation.

3) Playing another round of Russian Roullette on trying to get my current iMac repaired(if it can be) locally without replacement.

Any advice or suggestions are appreciated, and I know this rants a bit long but this issue has been plaguing me for almost a year.

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pIt's a question you've probably asked. Why is it that when you are looking for a house, driving slowly down a darkened street straining to see the numbers on the fronts of the homes or on the mailboxes at the end of the driveways, you automatically turn down the car radio? Why do you need silence when focusing, concentrating? You do so, I suppose, because you instinctively know that music and voices are a distraction. You know on a subconscious level that you cannot focus as well on the task at-hand when there is noise in the background. Noise is a distraction./p pI find that when I am writing, and especially writing something that requires deep thought and consistent logic, I need to remove background distractions, whether that means I turn down the music playing from my computer or close the door to my office to drown out the sounds of squabbling or playing children. I do this without thinking about it. As I strain to collect my thoughts and to put words to them, I automatically turn down the music (as I did just now). I am often surprised, when I have finished my writing, to find that the music has been turned off or the door has been closed. I may have no recollection of doing so. It must be a natural reaction./p pMany years ago I heard a sermon, one of the few I remember from my younger days, in which the pastor suggested that we try turning off the stereos in our cars, especially when we are driving alone, and spend the time thinking or praying. He had apparently developed the practice of praying aloud when driving alone. It earned him some bemused looks from other drivers who saw him talking, apparently to himself, but because he found it a beneficial practice he swallowed his pride and continued to talk to God. I guess this was in the day before bluetooth headsets; today it seems as if every driver is talking to himself. I often make a decision--and it has to be a deliberate decision since I am accustomed to pressing the "play" button immediately after starting the car--to turn off the radio or MP3 player when I drive. I have found such times extremely valuable. My mind can process things and mull things over far better where there is silence. This is particularly true if the song I might be listening to is one that is familiar to me as then, whether I am aware of it or not, I tend to sing along. It is hard to think deeply when singing!/p pIn our culture we have allowed ourselves to become notoriously busy. And all the time, while we are busily going through life, there is a great deal of "noise" in the background of our lives. It may be music that plays when we drive, when we work and when we play. It may be a television that is turned on every time we have a few minutes to spare. Perhaps when we find fifteen empty minutes between picking the kids up from school and beginning to cook dinner we watch an episode of emJudge Judy/em or catch a re-run of emThe Simpsons/em. The background noise may be a Blackberry that constantly beeps and buzzes as it receives emails or stock quotes, even when we are far away from the office. It may be a cell phone that keeps customers or employees in contact with us even on weekends and holidays./p pIt seems to me that, as society continues to move in its current direction, and as we become ever more "wired," Christians have to be increasingly deliberate about moderating and perhaps removing some of this ever-present background noise. If we are to be thinking people, people who think deeply and deliberately about spiritual matters, we simply cannot allow our lives to be overshadowed by the noise of technology./p pI wonder how much we miss because of our busyness. I am often challenged to think just how much of life I miss while I check my email for the seventh time in a given evening or while I follow along online with a football game that I really don't care about. Technology, it seems, is a great distractor. Technology sticks its foot in the door of so many areas of my life. When I sit down to read to my children we may be interrupted by a phone call. As we head outdoors to play, I may do a quick check of my email and spend fifteen minutes typing out a reply that could easily wait until the next day; and then, while I play with the children, I am distracted, mulling over what I might have or should have said. Maybe we duck out of church before the time of fellowship is complete so we will have time to get home, make a sandwich and fluff the cushions on the couch before kickoff time./p pTruthfully, I cannot think of anything that distracts us so fully and completely and consistently as technology. For too many of us, technology is a master and not a servant. It is our owner, not our possession. We let it run and rule our lives. We allow technology to determine the course of our lives, taking us where it leads. We determine our schedules with TV Guide in one hand, a Blackberry calendar in the other. We invest countless hours in online friendships, many of which are shallow and insignificant, while ignoring people in our local churches and communities. Perhaps while ignoring even our own families./p pTechnology is a great servant but an evil master. Technology is proof of the greatness and grace of God and something we ought to be thankful for. But why, then, have so many of us allowed it to rule and govern our lives? Why do we allow it to play such an important, transcendent role in our lives and in our families?/p pIt may be as simple as escapism. Technology, and especially its many applications to entertainment, provide unparalleled opportunities to escape from reality, even if only for a few minutes. Through technology we can leave the drudgery of our lives to listen to music that glorifies freedom or to watch television or film where what happens is far more thrilling than what we experience at home and in the office. The purpose of much of modern technology is to allow us to take our entertainment with us no matter where we go. MP3 players allow us to take thousands or tens of thousands of songs with us in the car or on the train. Video iPods allow us to escape from work or school for a few minutes by watching (ironically enough) emThe Office/em or unlimited amounts of pornography. Portable DVD players allow us to keep the children quiet in the car while we take a vacation. No matter who or where we are, we can use technology as a brief escape./p pPerhaps we use technology to hide. Maybe we hate to be alone with our thoughts. We have become so accustomed to constant noise that, like a baby who can only sleep in a room with a white noise machine softly humming, we can barely stand the sound of silence. Maybe we have lost the ability to think or even the desire to think, and so we anesthetize our intellects, we lull them into inactivity, by replacing them with noise./p pMaybe we need constant noise from the cell phone or laptop so we feel like we are accomplishing anything. Perhaps we have bought into the lie that we need to be accomplishing something significant--something that either pays the bills or leaves us with another bill to pay--at all times. And so we take phone calls during dinner and answer emails in church. We check email compulsively and work while we should be resting./p pOr it could be that we prefer the anonymity and safety of online relationships, relationships that allow us to be almost exhibitionist in what we reveal about ourselves, all the while hiding behind a mask of secrecy. We would rather tell our deepest secrets to strangers on the other side of the continent, strangers we know only by their online personas, than find and nurture deep and lasting friendships close to home./p pWe are busy. We are distracted. Too often we hide behind the noise. As Christians we need to ensure that we are mastering the noise, not allowing it to master us. We need to be in control of our cell phones, Blackberries, laptops and inboxes. 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Konnichiwa...
Im a newbie to ipods..
Hope you can help me.. :o
Thanks! :)

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Even though The Simpsons has a history of satirizing tech culture, and even Apple specifically, last night's episode felt like it was making up for a bit of lost time. It's not just iPods and iMacs...

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Depuis aujourd'hui, le portail captif FON est décliné en version allégée pour tous les appareils mobiles. Ces derniers sont d'ailleurs directement redirigés vers cette version de manière automatique ! Ci dessous un aperçu du résultat depuis un Nokia E61 avec le navigateur intégré :

Pour détecter si votre navigateur est un appareil mobile aux capacités de traitement restreintes, FON s'est basé sur ce script Open Source.

Notez que les iPods Touch et iPhones ne sont pas concernés, ces derniers parviennent très bien à voir le portail captif standard. Et pour acheter des Pass, il faut pour le moment passer par le portail traditionnel, mais cela pourrait changer bientôt.

For instance if I've already bought some applications for my mother's iPod Touch, can they be shared with another iPod? I'm planning to buy one (another Touch) for myself soon. Will I have to repurchase?

hey guys,
through the years I have bought many apple products and ipods and have loved every single one of them. I even have a little ipod collection going. There is one machine that I really want- the original Macintosh that Steve jobs introduced in 1984. Where can I find a good working model? How much can I expect to pay for it? What kind off apps/ programs could i run on it? can I go on the internet with it (I realize that the internet wasn't developed in 1984 but maybe there's an adapter or something that you could use with his machine to connect it to the internet)?

Thanks,
sahni130:apple:

ok i have gone through a number of ipod touches now, due to numerous amounts of problems. the first 2g ipodtouch i got was had a light leak all the way around the ipod. returned it. the new one i got still had light leaks so i returned it again. the third one i now have for some reason lets me push the corners up and down. the touch i currently have now is finally perfect. has anybody else experienced poorly made ipods. im not saying i dont like the new touches, i love the new luxuries it now has, im just really disappointed how nany hardware defects are in them. none of the 1g touches i have seen have had single fault.

Devteam member planetbeing brings us for the first time ever linux on iPhone and first-gen iPods.

I'm pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple's iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. This is a rough first draft of the port, and many drivers are still missing, but it's enough that a real alternative operating system is running on the iPhone. more...

Everything you need can be found on the linuxoniphone.blog and a demonstration video can be seen here: http://www.vimeo.com/2373142

Enjoy ;)

My sister has a small problem with her 12" PowerBook that has kinda grown bigger and bigger. She got a new iPod Nano as a leaving present from her work and when she plugs it in to her PowerBook it won't mount. I said to upgrade iTunes to 8.0 because that's what the new iPods need. But she's running Panther on her PowerBook and while I have a Leopard disc I don't know if it will handle it or if it will even work because it came with my MacBook Pro. Tiger was the way forward but there is no way of getting Tiger, Legally. A conundrum, eh? And if I were to acquire a disc illegally, would I still be able to do updates e.t.c

I'm not sure exactly what the specs are but it has a G4 and I think 640MB of RAM. I thought Leopard required 1GB. I do have 2 512MB sticks from a MacBook and I know they work because I tried them in my MacBook Pro. Does that RAM fit the PowerBook?:confused:

Hello everyone. I've lurked here ever since I bought my iPhone. I started with iPods moved on to the iPhone and finally switched from PC to Mac with a beautiful 24" iMac, and haven't regretted it once.

I've been wanting a laptop for a while now, specifically the Macbook, so I finally took the plunge. I did my research and read the reviews and the mild problems people have had with them. I looked at models in store and couldn't find anything wrong so I bought the 2.0 model.

Now that I've played with my Macbook for a couple days I have to say I'm disappointed with the display. I'm experiencing the same issue as others have had here. The display washes out from top to bottom. If I have a black backdrop or am playing a DVD with lots of dark scenes, Cloverfield for example, I get a bright greyish black lower screen. Other than darks everything looks decent.

So here's my questions:

Is this really a problem with all Macbooks or just some? I have the 9C8C screen does that make a difference?

I have an appointment with a genius tech tomorrow what could they possibly do. Would they replace the screen? I've read the Air screen are excellent would they be willing to put one of those in?

If your still reading I just want to thank you for your time.

I really love this machine but those blacks are killing me. I mean this is a $1300 machine we're talking about here.

Hi,

Has anyone bought or seen the iSkin touch Duo case for 2G (http://www.iskin.com/touchduo/features_pattern.html)?

I have purchased and used other iSkin cases for my older iPods and have always loved them, and am seriously considering this case for my new 2G.