Just scored a free remote for my MacBook.

[dopey220]

So, I lost my Apple Remote months ago. Today I was at school and asked the Network Administrator if the remotes for our school's new iMacs were just lying around somewhere. He said they were, and gave me one without even hesitating. Sure beats the hell out of spending $25 on a new one.

 

[Jasonbot]

Your school has macs My school is so primitive, all we get is new Celeron PC boxes...

 

[daneoni]

Your school has macs My school is so primitive, all we get is new Celeron PC boxes...

Ditto.....takes like 4 minutes to launch a freaking browser. Booting up is another story...might as well go have a game of tennis whilst its booting, you'll probably come back to find it at "Loading personal settings..."

 

[psycoswimmer]

Wow, that's a nice find. I wonder what they do with all of those extra remotes...?

My school had Power Macintoshes. I want to say it was something like 5500/225? We still have one in the computer lab. Then we got Pentium III Gateways running Windows 98. (This was in 2000...) They run awful. I finished my Word assignment a couple weeks ago in class and asked if I could go on the old Mac. I opened Photoshop (version 4 or 5) and it ran beautifully. Well, pretty fast for that Mac. I ran a couple of filters and everything and it worked nice. I can't imagine running Photoshop on my school's current computers though.

 

[AVID]

Our uni has about 30 powermac G5s dual core lined up just for our department. (alas, no remote controls)

 

[Collin973]

My department uses all kinds of macs. All the professors are given an iMac and each of the classrooms have a titanium powerbook connected to a projector in the ceiling. And last semester in the lower computer lab, there were 25 or so G5's with nice 20" apple displays and now there are 20" intel iMacs. I was really pleased to see the use of macs at my university.

I wondered what they did with those G5's. I wouldn't mind find 1 or 25 in a dumpster!

 

[Shaduu]

My department uses all kinds of macs. All the professors are given an iMac and each of the classrooms have a titanium powerbook connected to a projector in the ceiling. And last semester in the lower computer lab, there were 25 or so G5's with nice 20" apple displays and now there are 20" intel iMacs. I was really pleased to see the use of macs at my university.

I wondered what they did with those G5's. I wouldn't mind find 1 or 25 in a dumpster!

Probably gave them back to Apple in return for a discount on the iMacs.

 

[Collin973]

Probably gave them back to Apple in return for a discount on the iMacs.

well I guess I don't need to walk past the dumpsters anymore...

 

[dopey220]

Your school has macs My school is so primitive, all we get is new Celeron PC boxes...

It's because I'm a graphic design major. For a community college, it's a great program. We have Core Duo iMacs in the labs (Mac Pros in the room where my 3D modeling class is), along with the latest software. It puts the design programs of surrounding universities to shame.

The iMacs are actually replacing the eMacs we had until a couple semesters ago. When they were replaced, they were sold to the students for $75 apiece. Check out my sig for specs.

 

[wardc03]

free remote

So, I lost my Apple Remote months ago. Today I was at school and asked the Network Administrator if the remotes for our school's new iMacs were just lying around somewhere. He said they were, and gave me one without even hesitating. Sure beats the hell out of spending $25 on a new one.

I came across this topic and I DO realize that it is old. But I just wanted to tell everyone that I called Apple today to see if my new MacBook Pro came with a remote and they said, "No, but ya know what? We'll just give you one!" So they just shipped it out with free overnight shipping! I couldn't believe it. They just straight up gave me a free remote for my MacBook Pro. I have used mac for quite some time now but now I think that I am a Mac Junkie for life.
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[alphaod]

We still have iMac G5s, but they said they are due for an upgrade this summer. We do have Mac Pros, but that's just in some clusters.

 

[Greenhoe]

My College Upgraded just a year ago to Single Quad Core Mac Pro's with 23in Cinema Displays.

All the Graphic, Web, Computer Based Classes now have the Mac Pros, where all other classes have old Pentium Dells with 512 Ram which take 20 mins to load up.

I'm very happy we got the Cinema Displays as we use to have to work on 17in Monitors with the G5s.

 

[ChrisN]

The library and computer lab at my school both have iMacs and they are great but they automatically boot into Windows and I usually forget to go to Mac :/

ChrisN

 

[kastenbrust]

I came across this topic and I DO realize that it is old. But I just wanted to tell everyone that I called Apple today to see if my new MacBook Pro came with a remote and they said, "No, but ya know what? We'll just give you one!" So they just shipped it out with free overnight shipping! I couldn't believe it. They just straight up gave me a free remote for my MacBook Pro. I have used mac for quite some time now but now I think that I am a Mac Junkie for life.

Sometimes they do that because once they made a mistake and wrote on the Apple site that all computers come with a standard remote included.

Infact i think its still on the site somewhere, maybe in a video by that guy who always starts saying "Hi im john and i work in one of the Apple retail stores"