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Apple Releases the MacBook Pro
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Sorry again if this is out of place, jsut not quite sure where to post this, besides this question ultimatly goes towards finding a way to get a macbook pro mwahaha
anyhow, i couldnt find this question on the forum or apples site, what my question is, is that if i buy from a reseller, say BestBuy lol, would i be able to return it straight to apple (within 14 days) for credit towards a macbook pro??
sorry for the out of the blue question, any insight would be very appriciated
thanks
anyhow, i couldnt find this question on the forum or apples site, what my question is, is that if i buy from a reseller, say BestBuy lol, would i be able to return it straight to apple (within 14 days) for credit towards a macbook pro??
sorry for the out of the blue question, any insight would be very appriciated
thanks
jacobj said:Don't knock the Dell. There is a lot to be said for the pile 'em high sell 'em cheap philosophy...better turnover for a start... bloody apple users sometimes keep their machines for 5-6+ years
I will never again use a Dell laptop. From firsthand experience on their quality (I deploy a ton of these things each month.) and as someone who now works as a vendor who does warrantee repairs for Dell I can tell you that their quality has gone downhill faster then an avalanche down Everest. I'd dead serious when I say I wouldn't take one even if you gave it to me for free.
OK I would take it but the box's seal wouldn't be cracked before it was on e-bay. What pisses me off most about the damn things is I swear they have it out for me. Every latitude D I’ve deployed in the last 6 months has grounding issues. As I’m setting the damn things up my wrists get a slight shock. Not enough that it makes me fling back in pain but enough that by the time the system is sent out I’m rubbing my wrists. Then there is the maddening touchpad that went from Synaptecs to Alps. I can’t use them. I mean I REALLY can’t use them. Alps are the world’s cheapest POS touchpad’s even with the drivers and software installed I end up using an external mouse to set the laptop up.
Then there is the keyboard that is bowed. Look at it at a 90* angle and you can see the bowing. This isn’t on just one laptop. I’ve seen this on dozens of models From the D410, D400, and D610. All with the same BS keyboard design. Then there is the blatant rip-off of IBM’s T41 series. The points of commonality on both systems makes me highly suspicious that either Dell purchase the design from IBM or whoever makes Dell’s or they outright stole it.
Then you have internal systemboard design. I don’t know about Apple but as I’ve been learning how to fully pull apart Dell laptops I’ve been taking a good hard look at their systemboards. They are cheap ****. If you ever get a chance to look at a Dell laptop systemboard take a magnifying glass and look at the soldering that has been done on the board. It’s cheap. I mean really cheap. I’m talking given enough time and the current going through these joints will break the solder type cheap.
I’m convinced that was what happened to my Dell Optiplex 2 weeks ago. All of a sudden the systemboard went poof. It not longer works. Thankfully I have an AMD Asus as a backup (Along with my Thinkpad.) to keep me going until my MacBook Pro.
To summarize. I will use another Dell laptop when hell freezes over, I vote for Jeb Bush for President, and Microsoft Open Source’s Windows vista. Wow that was therapeutic. Do I owe MacRumors $20 for that session?
SiliconAddict said:
Interesting, but would you say that this is only true of the Latitude range? The dual core they list (and I have) is the Inspiron 9400 - and I can say that it suffers from none of those problems. Keyboard is fine (although I don't like placement of page up/down), no problems with grounding, and the touchpad is Synaptics.
That's not to say it isn't without it's quirks/annoyances - shipping a restore partition is annoying (ship a DVD - or at least an option to transfer it to DVD - why give over 5gig to something you hopefully won't use?). Uninstalling some of the preinstalled software breaks other preinstalls (causing an installer to popup on every reboot - except you don't have a source for the repair!). And they ship the Toshiba Bluetooth stack - good for Skype, bad for syncs, and causes BSODs!
But with a clean OS install, I've got nothing to complain about so far.
SiliconAddict said:
AMEN BROTHER!!!
They have some soulless contract with our college that's a kickback scheme, to the point they cost more than Apple's offerings but that's another rant for another time. 1 in 5 of the Dull Computers we get are DOA... 1 IN 5!!! We've had other weird issues too and the quality is, well, Dull is the Walmart of computers... cheap, foreign, CRAP! Total crap! Dull are just marketing hype, just because they have a friggin' ad on every web page and on TV every 2 minutes doesn't make them great, they blow their dough on marketing, clearly not on R&D (they use Apple for that) and probably blow most of their income on blow for Michael Dell's small head.
They're worthless, overrated, junk!
There is an ariticle that really scares me on skymac.com! It refers to the last time when the pb's were brand new. It took this person a couple of months to get his new pb after it was released. He stated he ordered it I believe the day the announcement was made. If that's the case we might be in for a long wait. I just hope they get these out tomorrow like they have been saying. I hope everyone keeps us posted as to the status of thier orders. Mine still says shipping Feb. 28.
radian23 said:
people in the UK have ship dates of Feb 7.... let's hope they start shipping out tomorrow (or today?)
I just spoke with an Apple customer service rep and he said that Apple is guaranteeing that the MacBook Pro will be shipped by the shipping date listed on the order status page. He said that there is a chance they could ship sooner, but they will absolutely ship by the date quoted.
Ok, not to diminish your optomism, but the Apple CS Reps tend to be full of ****. I was guaranteed that I would get Tiger on time, but guess what- it came 4 days late. Take anything you hear from them with a grain of salt.guffman said:
samb said:
No one was expecting to actually GET it today, they were expecting it to ship Today. And Several UK People have mentioned that their orders have been pushed back to Feb. 10th.
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guffman said:
That might be true, but they just changed the ship date on my order from Feb 7th to Feb 10th, and there is no way of knowing if its going to slip again...
madmanuk said:
Part of me feels like no real company would keep making due dates they know they couldn't meet to just keep us interested. and these things have to be pretty much done right? so if they say the 10th, it seems like they've got it pretty narrowed down. I mean if they had said March 10th, then I'd think that they really have no clue. But since they just moved it back 3 days, it sounds like they just have a couple things to finish up.
guffman said:
I agree. Unless they end up pushing the date back another time or 2, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they're pretty much on schedule with shipping by the 15th as my estimate still shows. If they start pushing that back, then I'll begin to wonder.
elbirth said:
Agreed....My point is, that real companies don't keep pushing oders back a couple of days at a time, unless there is a real snag. That doesn't seem to be the case here. Back at the keynote, they were shooting for Feb 7 - 15 to get these out and almost hit it by the 7th. When things weren't quite finished up, they moved things back 3 days to do so. Or at least that's what's in my head. Am I crazy?
elbirth said:
I really feel that the fact they moved the UK orders back by 3 days is a good sign. If Apple was anticipating a longer delay, then they would have set the new date to at least the end of the month. No way a company says "it will ship in 3 more days" only to turn around a take much longer. If there was a bigger problem, they would have set the new date with plenty of time to get them out.
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