Maybe this would be a good time to sit down and talk to your GF about your property? AppleCare will not cover accidental damage.
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GF stepped on my MBP and broke display-Apple care cover it?
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Well maybe he shouldn't leave computers on the floor. It's not his g/f fault 100% and I bet she feels horrible about it.
This thread should be entitled, I left my MBP on the floor and my GF stepped on it. OP, Take some responsibility for what you did, it is not your GFs fault nor, is it an Apple manufacturing defect.
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Have you considered an upgrade to GirlFriend 2.0?
That reminds me of this, something that was going around a few years back.
Dear Technical Support:
I am currently running the latest version of GirlFriend and I've
been having some problems lately. I've been running the
same version of Drinking Buddies 1.0 forever as my primary
application, and all the Girl Friend releases I've tried have
always conflicted with it. I hear that Drinking Buddies won't
crash if GirlFriend is run in background mode and the sound
is turned off. But, I'm embarrassed to say I can't find the
switch to turn the sound off. I just run them separately and it
works ok.
GirlFriend also seems to have a problem co-existing with my
Golf program, often trying to abort Golf with some sort of
timing incompatibility.
I probably should have stayed with GirlFriend 1.0, but I
thought I might see better performance from GirlFriend 2.0.
After months of conflicts an both problems, I consulted a
friend who has had experience with GirlFriend 2.0. He said I
probably didn't have enough cache to run GirlFriend 2.0, and
eventually it would require a Token Ring to run properly. He
was right - as soon as I purged my cache, it uninstalled
itself.
Shortly after that, I installed GirlFriend 3.0 beta. All the bugs
were supposed to be gone, but the first time I used it, it gave
me a virus anyway. I had to clean out my whole system and
shut down for awhile.
I very cautiously upgraded to GirlFriend 4.0. This time I used
SCSI probe first and also installed a virus protection program.
It worked okay for a while until I discovered that GirlFriend
1.0 was still in my system. I tried running GirlFriend 1.0
again with GirlFriend 4.0 still installed, but GirlFriend 4.0 has
a feature I didn't know about that automatically senses the
presence of any other version of GirlFriend and
communicates with it in some way, which results in the
immediate removal of both versions.
The version I have now works pretty well, but there are still
some problems. Like all versions of GirlFriend, it is written in
some obscure language I can't understand, must less
reprogram. Frankly, I think there is too much attention paid
to the look and feel rather than the desired functionality. Also,
to get the best connections with your hardware, you usually
have to use gold-plated contacts. And I've never liked how
GirlFriend is totally "object-oriented". A year ago, a friend of
mine upgraded his version of GirlFriend to GirlFriendPlus 1.0,
which is a Terminate and Stay Resident version of
GirlFriend. He discovered that GirlfriendPlus 1.0 expires
within a year if you don't upgrade to Fiancee 1.0. So he did,
but soon after that, he had to upgrade to Wife 1.0, which he
describes as a huge resource hog. It has taken up all of his
space so he can't load anything else.
One of the primary reasons he decided to go with Wife 1.0
was because it came bundled with FreeSexPlus. Well, it
turns out the resource allocation module of Wife 1.0
sometimes prohibits access to FreeSexPlus, particularly the
new Plug-Ins he wanted to try. On top of that, Wife 1.0 must
be running on a well warmed-up system before he can do
anything. Although he did not ask for it, Wife 1.0 came with
MotherInLaw which has an automatic pop-up feature he can't
turn off.
I told him to try installing Mistress 1.0, but he said he heard
if you try to run it without first uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0
will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself.
Then Mistress 1.0 won't install anyway because of insufficient
resources.
Any ideas????
Couldn't agree with you more!!!!
To the OP, learn from this and if you get married an have kids, you will really learn not to keep expensive things on the floor
The next time you ask her to stand on the desk, put your MBP on the floor, safely out of the way.
Does your GF have a laptop ? If so, you should put it on the floor and step on it
Yeah, because that is SO mature.
oh come on, dont you understand jokes
Did you look at the joke I posted in my response above? #34
That was funneee! I'm sure the OP didn't appreciate the humor since he is now stuck with a girlfriend who is jealous of his MBP.
Funny. Seen it before but a fun read nonetheless.
I live in Japan. We put many things on the floor. You just need to learn to not step on them by looking where you are walking.
Or put things that can't handle being walked on somewhere where people won't accidently step on them. Say, close to a wall. It's no defense that people in japan place "a lot of things" on the floor. Hell, I sometimes put my recording bag on the floor too, but I certainly don't put it somewhere someone might step on it. The same goes for a laptop. It's flat and low, in essense a tile. If I were to put something like that on the floor I would stand it up a wall in some area people didn't walk.
Each to his own, though.
I live in California.. we put everything in the air .. where no one can step on them
