Basically I bought a Macbook Pro last night, it died shortly after I turned it on this evening. I've just been to the apple store and was given a replacement. I highly doubt they will replace the replacement should the same thing happen again, so I'd just like to explain everything I did with it since buying it and to know if any of it was wrong:
OK so last night at about 5 I bought my Macbook Pro from the apple store oxford circus... mostly because I'm impatient waiting for my iMac, well anyway I opened it in the store and downloaded a few things like MSN messenger, firefox, set up my email account etc. Spent like an hour using it there.
I then shut it down, took it home, set it to charge @ about 6, and while it was charging, transfered all my music over to it and firefox bookmarks. I then started downloading world of warcraft.
It was a massive download so I left it running overnight with the power settings set to turn the monitor off but leave the actual power on.
In the morning (6.30am) it was fine, while I was getting ready I watched TV on this website: http://www.tvcatchup.com/ (I've just thought, this is a continuously streamed flash video, like youtube I guess but ongoing... would this cause a Macbook to break? I can't use it on my PC because my PC crashes whenever I do, same with youtube which is why I wanted to switch to mac)
I turned it off (at around 8.30am), and stored it safely in my underwear drawer while I was at work
so my nosey flatmates wouldn't be tempted to steal it.
I got home at 2 or 3pm, watched some more flash videos (while charging) on this website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv and then http://www.tvcatchup.com/ till around 4pm.
I just left it on, not using it for about an hour then at around 5.30pm, I went to check my email on it, was about to open firefox when it suddenly turned itself off. I tried to turn it back on but couldn't. Followed the support instructions on the website on what to do in this event - nothing worked, so I took it back to the apple store.
They were very apologetic and replaced it, but seemed surprised that this had happened - which is what made me think it was maybe something I had done. I didn't want to tell them that at the store in case they thought I was to blame and refused to replace it, so here I am asking you lovely people
So my question again is is anything I've done a big nono that I musn't do on the new replacement Macbook pro? I'd be very grateful to you for any input you can give
OK so last night at about 5 I bought my Macbook Pro from the apple store oxford circus... mostly because I'm impatient waiting for my iMac, well anyway I opened it in the store and downloaded a few things like MSN messenger, firefox, set up my email account etc. Spent like an hour using it there.
I then shut it down, took it home, set it to charge @ about 6, and while it was charging, transfered all my music over to it and firefox bookmarks. I then started downloading world of warcraft.
It was a massive download so I left it running overnight with the power settings set to turn the monitor off but leave the actual power on.
In the morning (6.30am) it was fine, while I was getting ready I watched TV on this website: http://www.tvcatchup.com/ (I've just thought, this is a continuously streamed flash video, like youtube I guess but ongoing... would this cause a Macbook to break? I can't use it on my PC because my PC crashes whenever I do, same with youtube which is why I wanted to switch to mac)
I turned it off (at around 8.30am), and stored it safely in my underwear drawer while I was at work
so my nosey flatmates wouldn't be tempted to steal it.I got home at 2 or 3pm, watched some more flash videos (while charging) on this website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv and then http://www.tvcatchup.com/ till around 4pm.
I just left it on, not using it for about an hour then at around 5.30pm, I went to check my email on it, was about to open firefox when it suddenly turned itself off. I tried to turn it back on but couldn't. Followed the support instructions on the website on what to do in this event - nothing worked, so I took it back to the apple store.
They were very apologetic and replaced it, but seemed surprised that this had happened - which is what made me think it was maybe something I had done. I didn't want to tell them that at the store in case they thought I was to blame and refused to replace it, so here I am asking you lovely people
So my question again is is anything I've done a big nono that I musn't do on the new replacement Macbook pro? I'd be very grateful to you for any input you can give
