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Parents threw box away! Resale? Disk??

WillEH

WillEH

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Feb 8, 2011
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Hi,

Had my MBP 2011 box stored at my parents house, told them to just leave it, etc. God behold they threw it away, it had all the disk for SL, etc. ( want to go back from Lion to SL )

Can't dwell on the past.

My question now is, in the future when I want to sell it, if I ever do, how much do you think it will effect the resale? Also any possible way I can get another SL disks? or do you think it's going to have to be a new one?

Just some simple questions :)

Thanks!
 
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You can get replacement Restore DVDs from Apple for 15 to 30 USD (contact via telephone) or you could get a Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Upgrade DVD for 29 USD, if your Mac came with a version earlier than the one on the Upgrade DVD (10.6.4 I guess).
The resale value will be diminished by maybe 50 USD, nothing more.
 
WillEH said:
Hi,

Had my MBP 2011 box stored at my parents house, told them to just leave it, etc. God behold they through it away, it had all the disk for SL, etc. ( want to go back from Lion to SL )

Can't dwell on the past.

My question now is, in the future when I want to sell it, if I ever do, how much do you think it will effect the resale? Also any possible way I can get another SL disks? or do you think it's going to have to be a new one?

Just some simple questions :)

Thanks!
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Can't blame your parents when it's their house and you left it there. So really it's your fault. Either way you can get replacement CDs.
 
norrismantooth said:
Did you just install Lion? Spotlight goes through a 2-hour indexing phase, which could cause it to seem slow. I've been on Lion for 2 days, it's as fast as SL was.
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Been on it since day one, slow boot up time, fans going crazy, heat going mad! Sluggish, etc.
 
norrismantooth said:
Did you just install Lion? Spotlight goes through a 2-hour indexing phase, which could cause it to seem slow. I've been on Lion for 2 days, it's as fast as SL was.
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Really depends on the machine I guess. My C2D with 2GHz and 4GB DDR2 RAM doesn't really like Lion and Lion is still a bit buggy, thus going around the bugs will slow one down too.
For instance, to use Mission Control via a third party mouse and a mouse button, I have to click the assigned mouse button twice/thrice to invoke MC, something which never happened with Exposé in Panther and upwards or Spaces in Leopard and upwards.
I will test Lion further, but my current workflow seems to be really hampered by Lion (thus I only use my home machine for Lion).
 
For the record they "THREW" your box away.

When I buy used stuff I really like to get the box and such so, yeah that sucks.

Lion is just as fast as SL - without your iLife disks the pervious person is correct, even if you downgrade you'd have to do a clean install and would lose those apps. Don't know if that's a big deal though.

I'd call Apple customer support and tell them what happened, there's a good chance you'll end up with new disks for free if they have them.
 
Fry-man22 said:
For the record they "THREW" your box away.

When I buy used stuff I really like to get the box and such so, yeah that sucks.

Lion is just as fast as SL - without your iLife disks the pervious person is correct, even if you downgrade you'd have to do a clean install and would lose those apps. Don't know if that's a big deal though.

I'd call Apple customer support and tell them what happened, there's a good chance you'll end up with new disks for free if they have them.
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Shocked that I even spelt that wrong, just done a lovely 16 hour shift at work when I wrote that, forgive me :D
 
If you want them for free, I'd imagine you could just say that your discs are damaged/not working properly and they'll send you replacements for free (you need to call Apple support; you can't go to the Apple Store or they'll tell you to call).

My discs actually did malfunction and they sent me replacements for free, without having me send back the old discs.

Once you get your discs, back up the disc image files on your computer, so you never have to worry about losing/damaging those discs again.
 
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