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Did you enter real information when you switch on your mac at the first time?
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What shops/sellers? If you are buying Macs from BestBuy (in US), they probably won't even ask for anything, unless you finance with them. If you buy from Fry's (US), they ask you your address and name and phone number, to create an account for you. Those information will appear on a invoice, which you'll use to pay for your computer. But those are for different purpose than those info you'd enter later on your Mac.
You'll have to enter your name, address, email, such on your Mac the first time you switch it on anyway. And this usually doesn't take place in front of the sales person.
Unless you plan on setting up your office in the middle of the store, the sales people aren't going to see what info you put into the machine. Take it home, open the box, plug it in, then enter your info.
Um..Maybe I would switch it on in the store, so I may need to enter the information there
i'm thinking along the line of... testing the system to see if there's any problem with hardware and stuff?
Maybe I'm just weird. But I usually have some kind of opening ceremony whenever I open a new computer. Because I feel the new computer is special that way.
You know...somehow...
http://consumerist.com/consumer/notag/457-million-credit-cards-stolen-in-tjmaxx-breaches-248112.php
http://consumerist.com/consumer/notag/millions-of-visa--mastercard-accounts-breached-227097.php
http://consumerist.com/consumer/notag/90-of-us-account-holders-think-bank-security-sucks-166105.php
maybe i'm just a consumerist whore, but those are just three stories on one website about massive security breaches. nevermind all those other horror stories on consumerist about BofA and Citibank and other banks' customers and how they got their safe deposit boxes raided, someone stole a check and the bank still let them cash it, etc...
And half of it is user error anyway. People click on things and open things they shouldn't be clicking or opening, they don't update their malware scanners, they can't tell the difference between legitimate and well forged phishing emails, and it doesn't help.
Of course, the end user shouldn't be the one responsible for this, but it's a difficult uphill battle, and better safe than sorry even if there was a way to deal with such emails and malware.
Ohh my god, do NOT do this if an Apple retail store is nearby.
Best Buy has the most ignorant dumb****s on the face of this planet. Every time I wander around Best Buy while someone else I came with is shopping, I always end up floating around the Apple section, and you absolutely cannot do anything on them (BAD!!! bad bad bad, BB should be doing what the Apple retail stores are doing by letting customers do whatever the hell they want, not bolting down a laptop to the table and turning off all the cool features). Nevermind the incompetent employees who always start out apologetically "I don't know anything about Macs...", and the ripoff that is Geek Squad.
Should I say I'm glad where I live the Best Buy doesn't have any Apple computers?
The Torrance Best Buy doesn't have any Apple computers either. I was there the day after Thanksgiving.
I'm not by any mean recommending anybody to do finance at Best Buy. I'm simply pointing out that would be the only situation in Best Buy where they would ask for your personal information.
The Torrance Best Buy doesn't have any Apple computers either. I was there the day after Thanksgiving.
I'm not by any mean recommending anybody to do finance at Best Buy. I'm simply pointing out that would be the only situation in Best Buy where they would ask for your personal information.
Ditto.
Exactly, I don't know why anybody wouldn't do so in the first place.
During the registration process of a new computer or new system installation you can hit cmd-q to skip the entire process and go straight to the user account setup.
I had no idea! Thanks for the info! I have to say that the (seemingly unskippable) registration smacks of Microsoftism, and really ticked me off the first time I saw it. It should ASK if you want to register, and give a clear button not to (in which case I probably would have
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I do enter my real information on my Mac and I also register it because I buy Applecare with it.
Most place in the US do no WANT you doing this. Maybe an independent reseller/store would be cool with it. But overall, you are going to get dirty looks if you try to open it up and set it up after buying in a US store.
Difference being i would say is if you are in the Apple Store and have requested help doing stuff with the genius bar.
Other it's "here's your hat and coat what's your hurry?"
Of course, if you were using a credit card that wasn't your own to buy the computer you might not want anyone to see your "real" name and i'd hope you weren't doing THAT.