I was thinking the same thing, it isn't exactly warm there. I guess that 70 Fahrenheit is hot when you consider the average high come winter time is -10 Celsius.
I've done self repair on laptops before, and never even had a job come close to approaching this price. The part you quoted wasn't the model number I needed as well. All the lower pans don't have the same exact mounting points and dimensions, hence the different model numbers. No, I will not buy a used pan sight unseen online, that is ridiculous.
I didn't blame Apple for the fall of the laptop. It was actually knocked off a table in the middle of the night by a cat and it was closed and turned off. I'm taking Apple to task for engineering such an easily damaged product. Why do you think they have motion sensors in the hard drive? For falls perhaps? The drive fell due to gravity and wasn't thrown. It is normal use to expect a product to survive an unaided fall, i.e. one that is due to gravity and not something like a purposeful forceful throw.
Guaranteeing from a drop wasn't brought up, perhaps somebody so smug should learn to read? It is my belief that the product should be engineered to take a fall that can happen in everyday life. I'm not saying that Apple pays out because I drop a laptop, I'm saying that a laptop should be able to take a waist height drop because there is a fairly decent chance it could take one in its lifetime. I haven't said Apple should cover this under warranty, I'm saying they should make a sturdier product.
I'm marked redundant if I bring the story up again so just read my many posts.
I know you can buy the lower pan for approximately $200 online but those are all used parts, you can't find new ones.
Scenario...
Coming to a stop on the bike, about to learn my backup was not zipped up.
Swinging backpack forward over shoulder as I applied the break, slow speed 5-10 mph.
14" iBook comes flying out of backpack, from over 5 feet in the air with forward momentum.
14" iBook hits concrete, on a corner, even have photographic evidence of it if you really need it.
I plow over iBook.
I dust off iBook and note huge road rash gouges on corner and tire track across top. Assume I just bought a new iBook for my wife. Open it up and it powers on and never had a problem. the old cheaper iBook was much more durable.
Well obviously not everyone will read every post so I am doing so repeating. As it is, I need to stop posting before IT notices all my Slashdot traffic.
I've had laptops survive worse. My wife had an iBook G3 that I ran over on my bike, and it turned me on to Apple quality when I didn't have to run out and purchase her a new one because it still worked. Now I'm just terribly, terribly annoyed.
The details have been covered, falling from a table on to a padded carpet surface. Not a hard surface, not concrete, tile, or unpadded industrial carpet, a padded carpet surface. It was closed too and not in use. Your experience doesn't invalidate mine. Hell, as already covered today, I bought this MBP because of the quality I had seen in Apple products previously.
I've thought about it. I do have warranty left. The one bottom they had was a used one the last time I looked, I don't think they can get new Apple product.
Yes, blame the victim. It has to be me. Your experiences do not invalidate mine. I've abused the hell out of my laptops in the past and never had these kind of issues. It fell from a table on to a padded carpet surface. I've done worse with less consequences before. I don't expect my case to bend and crack from the abuse, especially when it is advertised partly on its hard aluminum case.
I can acknowledge that the laptop was abused. As I stated previously, I've abused a laptop or 5 in my day, but this is just ridiculous for the amount of damage caused by the surface it contaced. This wasn't tile or concrete or dirt, this was padded carpet. Oh well, lesson learned. Don't pay the premium when it doesn't get you too much in return. I can afford the repair, I just refuse to get it done out of principal. I can't pay $610 to replace a bottom case when the machine originally cost $2000. I can't justify over one quarter of the original price for what amounts to a cosmetic repair. Even though I can afford it, I refuse to give Apple the money. I almost gave in.
I would expect a plastic case to possibly show damage, especially considering that your office carpet is probably not like my home carpet. I have two other dents that I couldn't tell you where they came from because it hasn't been dropped any other time. The case is simply not durable.
I ran over my wifes old G3 iBook on my bike, and I ain't a small guy. The fact that it still worked with only a scuffed corner and a tire mark was a testament to Apple and made me consider buying one for the first time. If a laptop can't take a 3 foot drop, it isn't fit for everyday use. I've abused laptops before, this is just the most fragile, while being the most expensive at the same time.
I'm thinking of buying a Speck case protector and it may actually help keep the protruding frame in place while also protecting the soft as butter frame. Seriously, I thought this case was a little more durable that it has turned out to be.
I wanted one bad too. Now I wish I didn't pay the premium when I discovered just how easily the case of my MacBook Pro is damaged. I have three dents including on that has rendered my optical drive unusable. I paid $2000 for a laptop that is not as durable as advertised. I'm going back to a non-apple laptop with Linux when this one has gone through it's useful life. The only thing that brought me over to Apple was OS X and now the quality is pushing me back. The smugness of the Apple Store and the Apple Authorized repair shops has also driven me away. The asking price of $610 to replace the bottom case was also a deal breaker for me. Apple just isn't worth it and I feel stupid for having taken a drink of the kool-aid.
I have a MacBook Pro that is less than a year old. It took a 3 foot drop on to padded carpet and the bottom case corner by the optical drive got bent. The machine works fine, just no use of the optical drive for me now since the fragile case bent. The drive itself works, it is just that every disk inserted and ejected gets a scratch on it now. Apple wants $610 to replace the bottom case pan. I think I'll be looking back to a non-Apple laptop running Linux the next time I'm in the market for a laptop. $2000 laptops shouldn't have such fragile cases. I've dropped many a laptop in my day and never had a case get bent.
Look up the pay rates for the Denver PD. You are of course right, DA's that live in areas with poor paying jobs don't have much of a tax base to take their income from.
Where do you live that the DA only gets $35K per year? I'm assuming she is an assitant DA, did you leave that of? After 4 years of servicet the police make $60K per year here.
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I was thinking the same thing, it isn't exactly warm there. I guess that 70 Fahrenheit is hot when you consider the average high come winter time is -10 Celsius.
Says the anonymous pussy.
I've done self repair on laptops before, and never even had a job come close to approaching this price. The part you quoted wasn't the model number I needed as well. All the lower pans don't have the same exact mounting points and dimensions, hence the different model numbers. No, I will not buy a used pan sight unseen online, that is ridiculous.
I didn't blame Apple for the fall of the laptop. It was actually knocked off a table in the middle of the night by a cat and it was closed and turned off. I'm taking Apple to task for engineering such an easily damaged product. Why do you think they have motion sensors in the hard drive? For falls perhaps? The drive fell due to gravity and wasn't thrown. It is normal use to expect a product to survive an unaided fall, i.e. one that is due to gravity and not something like a purposeful forceful throw.
I find it hard to swallow as well, hence my anger.
Guaranteeing from a drop wasn't brought up, perhaps somebody so smug should learn to read? It is my belief that the product should be engineered to take a fall that can happen in everyday life. I'm not saying that Apple pays out because I drop a laptop, I'm saying that a laptop should be able to take a waist height drop because there is a fairly decent chance it could take one in its lifetime. I haven't said Apple should cover this under warranty, I'm saying they should make a sturdier product.
I'm marked redundant if I bring the story up again so just read my many posts. I know you can buy the lower pan for approximately $200 online but those are all used parts, you can't find new ones.
I have a picture of it: http://www.blemishedapple.com/
It could be argued that a redesign is an admission of a previously flawed design?
Scenario... Coming to a stop on the bike, about to learn my backup was not zipped up. Swinging backpack forward over shoulder as I applied the break, slow speed 5-10 mph. 14" iBook comes flying out of backpack, from over 5 feet in the air with forward momentum. 14" iBook hits concrete, on a corner, even have photographic evidence of it if you really need it. I plow over iBook. I dust off iBook and note huge road rash gouges on corner and tire track across top. Assume I just bought a new iBook for my wife. Open it up and it powers on and never had a problem. the old cheaper iBook was much more durable.
Well obviously not everyone will read every post so I am doing so repeating. As it is, I need to stop posting before IT notices all my Slashdot traffic.
Yep, I've done worse with others. I wouldn't recommend a MBP, based on my experiences, if you need a durable laptop.
I've had laptops survive worse. My wife had an iBook G3 that I ran over on my bike, and it turned me on to Apple quality when I didn't have to run out and purchase her a new one because it still worked. Now I'm just terribly, terribly annoyed.
The details have been covered, falling from a table on to a padded carpet surface. Not a hard surface, not concrete, tile, or unpadded industrial carpet, a padded carpet surface. It was closed too and not in use. Your experience doesn't invalidate mine. Hell, as already covered today, I bought this MBP because of the quality I had seen in Apple products previously.
I've thought about it. I do have warranty left. The one bottom they had was a used one the last time I looked, I don't think they can get new Apple product.
Yes, blame the victim. It has to be me. Your experiences do not invalidate mine. I've abused the hell out of my laptops in the past and never had these kind of issues. It fell from a table on to a padded carpet surface. I've done worse with less consequences before. I don't expect my case to bend and crack from the abuse, especially when it is advertised partly on its hard aluminum case.
I can acknowledge that the laptop was abused. As I stated previously, I've abused a laptop or 5 in my day, but this is just ridiculous for the amount of damage caused by the surface it contaced. This wasn't tile or concrete or dirt, this was padded carpet. Oh well, lesson learned. Don't pay the premium when it doesn't get you too much in return. I can afford the repair, I just refuse to get it done out of principal. I can't pay $610 to replace a bottom case when the machine originally cost $2000. I can't justify over one quarter of the original price for what amounts to a cosmetic repair. Even though I can afford it, I refuse to give Apple the money. I almost gave in.
I would expect a plastic case to possibly show damage, especially considering that your office carpet is probably not like my home carpet. I have two other dents that I couldn't tell you where they came from because it hasn't been dropped any other time. The case is simply not durable.
I ran over my wifes old G3 iBook on my bike, and I ain't a small guy. The fact that it still worked with only a scuffed corner and a tire mark was a testament to Apple and made me consider buying one for the first time. If a laptop can't take a 3 foot drop, it isn't fit for everyday use. I've abused laptops before, this is just the most fragile, while being the most expensive at the same time.
I'm thinking of buying a Speck case protector and it may actually help keep the protruding frame in place while also protecting the soft as butter frame. Seriously, I thought this case was a little more durable that it has turned out to be.
I wanted one bad too. Now I wish I didn't pay the premium when I discovered just how easily the case of my MacBook Pro is damaged. I have three dents including on that has rendered my optical drive unusable. I paid $2000 for a laptop that is not as durable as advertised. I'm going back to a non-apple laptop with Linux when this one has gone through it's useful life. The only thing that brought me over to Apple was OS X and now the quality is pushing me back. The smugness of the Apple Store and the Apple Authorized repair shops has also driven me away. The asking price of $610 to replace the bottom case was also a deal breaker for me. Apple just isn't worth it and I feel stupid for having taken a drink of the kool-aid.
I have a MacBook Pro that is less than a year old. It took a 3 foot drop on to padded carpet and the bottom case corner by the optical drive got bent. The machine works fine, just no use of the optical drive for me now since the fragile case bent. The drive itself works, it is just that every disk inserted and ejected gets a scratch on it now. Apple wants $610 to replace the bottom case pan. I think I'll be looking back to a non-Apple laptop running Linux the next time I'm in the market for a laptop. $2000 laptops shouldn't have such fragile cases. I've dropped many a laptop in my day and never had a case get bent.
Look up the pay rates for the Denver PD. You are of course right, DA's that live in areas with poor paying jobs don't have much of a tax base to take their income from.
Where do you live that the DA only gets $35K per year? I'm assuming she is an assitant DA, did you leave that of? After 4 years of servicet the police make $60K per year here.
with the first chords of Aces High playing in the background...