I highly recommend purchasing AppleCare with the company's money - if it's my own, I'd rather stick with basic hardware and a Linux OS - Ubuntu is growing up, slowly but surely.
Sorry to say, Windows 10 is truly a return to the dark side...
Things are getting a steadily brighter in Ubuntu land, probably not good enough to replace your OS-X based tools for daily professional work (colleagues still send me stuff that just doesn't open correctly in LibreOffice), but worth a look.
I had a 2006 MBP, the mag-lock charging cables (mine and my colleagues) lasted about 6 months - bad strain relief design, something Apple continued for over a decade into the early iPads.
Just a small accessory, sure... now let's talk about the exploding batteries (replaced under warranty, if you knew to ask). Growing pains, yeah.
Now, let's talk about the lack of proper heat-sink compound on the GPU... 18 months into life we started having heat-death of the GPUs on those models - no warranty repairs offered here, would you like to purchase a main board replacement for 80% of the cost of a new laptop?
O.K. - that MacBook Pro model was just a lemon, they had been in the PC manufacturing business for 25 years, but this laptop thing is still sorta new, cut them some slack?
How about their "education model" iMacs that they have the Universities on contract to replace every 2 years - you can get those cheap (like $50) if you know when the dumping sales come around. Thing is, the "education models" are nerfed with max RAM capacities and other things to make them obsolete _even faster_ than the consumer grade stuff. Don't mind working with a 2GB RAM limit in 2014, then $50 is a steal for an iMac - really nice looking machine, just stare at it while you wait for everything to load.
My MacBook Pro came with the AMD GPU with improperly applied heatsink paste... lasted for about 25 months before degenerating into a machine that would have no graphics display after coming up to temperature.
You're not wrong, and the fact that Trump's supporters' median income is higher also does not make them right, or superior, it does possibly mean they are selfish.
The saddest group are the poor Republican voters, like the electrical power lineman I met - hardworking, but afraid to vote Democrat because his boss will punish him (economically) if Democrats win... that's the least American reasoning I've heard in forever.
No, you can't use File Vault safely - if your computer hangs during power down and doesn't power down "gracefully," File Vault can lock your home folder up tight and throw away the key. (Been there, talked with Carlos in advanced tech support, it's toast man, reinstall from original image.)
Apple plays big into this paranoia - write it with ones, write it with zeroes, write it with random data 9 times (or 27 if you prefer...) F-all, write it with whatever one time and you have put the probability of data recovery into the same range as winning the lotto, twice in two weeks with only two tickets purchased.
That's not green, you should send it to a recycling center in China where they specialize in extracting your personal credit information to maximize value from the waste stream.
Or, you know, don't use FileVault on your home folder because that's the quickest way to nearly brick your MacBook Pro and have to reinstall everything from scratch. Been there, done that - decades of practice and they still get it wrong.
I'd like to see what the actual intended lifetime is of Apple products, by design. By observation, they seem to expect most of them to be replaced within 24 months or less, and the designs seem to intentionally self-destruct shortly thereafter.
Why do your kids have access to a device that contains your credit, banking, debit, or other private information?
Seems to me that is the parenting failure right there.
The Amazon Kindle (Fire and otherwise) won't function without linkage to credit information. Amazon promotes this device for use by minor children and provides (apparently less than 100% effective) parental controls to enable parents to let the children use the device without permission to use the line of credit.
When your teenage child lifts your wallet and goes on a spending spree with your credit card, is that your parenting failure? Personally, I'd rather teach them early about limits and acceptable behavior instead of keeping everything under lock and key that they will eventually be able to break. A computer tablet at age 9 seems like a much safer way to learn than a credit card or checkbook at age 17.
Amazon, and all web retailers, need to understand that they cannot enter binding contracts with minors.
Amazon in particular provides the Kindle tablet hardware with (laughably easy to circumvent) parental controls to prevent children from making purchases without parental permission, and yet, it happens anyway. They have cheerfully refunded all purchases that my children made, but we usually catch these things and start corrective actions within 24 hours or less... maybe it gets stickier if the parents don't notice until later.
In any event, the legal question- being decided in the lawsuit- is whether or not parents can be held accountable for contracts entered into by their minor children. That answer has always been: no, and the fact that children inadvertantly came to possess access to the parent's credit information without the parents' permission does not change that.
Two or three times now, our kids have "broken" the Kindle tablet's parental controls and ordered a bunch of stuff (apps, mostly) - so far, all it has ever taken is for us to dig up the (difficult to find) Amazon customer service links, chat with some dude in India for 5 minutes, and everything is refunded within a day or three.
The thing is, if he goes too far in denying world perception of reality (forget the debate about truth: perception is all there is) the world will backlash on him and start to isolate the US the way North Korea and Cuba have been isolated... It won't happen overnight, but with proposed 35% tariffs on trade, he's already starting to do it to us himself.
Absolutely, tweak the EC with more rules, twists, turns and intricacies such that only people who study it for years truly understand how it works. Develop a certified electoral college analyst curriculum and train hundreds of people to interpret what's going on for the rest of us. Surround it in mythos and lore, and then accept on faith that the system isn't bought, rigged or manipulated by people with influence and money.
Or, you know, just make it one vote per adult constituent.
Two paths, as a democracy - if we care enough, we should be able to choose the one we want to take.
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I highly recommend purchasing AppleCare with the company's money - if it's my own, I'd rather stick with basic hardware and a Linux OS - Ubuntu is growing up, slowly but surely.
Sorry to say, Windows 10 is truly a return to the dark side...
Things are getting a steadily brighter in Ubuntu land, probably not good enough to replace your OS-X based tools for daily professional work (colleagues still send me stuff that just doesn't open correctly in LibreOffice), but worth a look.
I had a 2006 MBP, the mag-lock charging cables (mine and my colleagues) lasted about 6 months - bad strain relief design, something Apple continued for over a decade into the early iPads.
Just a small accessory, sure... now let's talk about the exploding batteries (replaced under warranty, if you knew to ask). Growing pains, yeah.
Now, let's talk about the lack of proper heat-sink compound on the GPU... 18 months into life we started having heat-death of the GPUs on those models - no warranty repairs offered here, would you like to purchase a main board replacement for 80% of the cost of a new laptop?
O.K. - that MacBook Pro model was just a lemon, they had been in the PC manufacturing business for 25 years, but this laptop thing is still sorta new, cut them some slack?
How about their "education model" iMacs that they have the Universities on contract to replace every 2 years - you can get those cheap (like $50) if you know when the dumping sales come around. Thing is, the "education models" are nerfed with max RAM capacities and other things to make them obsolete _even faster_ than the consumer grade stuff. Don't mind working with a 2GB RAM limit in 2014, then $50 is a steal for an iMac - really nice looking machine, just stare at it while you wait for everything to load.
I have an original iPad one, the hardware was indestructible, but they managed to kill it with OS upgrades by 2014.
No, removal of the headphone jack is still more in-your-face than this, but they are all signs of a trend...
My MacBook Pro came with the AMD GPU with improperly applied heatsink paste... lasted for about 25 months before degenerating into a machine that would have no graphics display after coming up to temperature.
I think you've discovered their evil plot.
It's the pro desktop - which doubles as a vacuum cleaner.
You're not wrong, and the fact that Trump's supporters' median income is higher also does not make them right, or superior, it does possibly mean they are selfish.
The saddest group are the poor Republican voters, like the electrical power lineman I met - hardworking, but afraid to vote Democrat because his boss will punish him (economically) if Democrats win... that's the least American reasoning I've heard in forever.
No, you can't use File Vault safely - if your computer hangs during power down and doesn't power down "gracefully," File Vault can lock your home folder up tight and throw away the key. (Been there, talked with Carlos in advanced tech support, it's toast man, reinstall from original image.)
Apple plays big into this paranoia - write it with ones, write it with zeroes, write it with random data 9 times (or 27 if you prefer...) F-all, write it with whatever one time and you have put the probability of data recovery into the same range as winning the lotto, twice in two weeks with only two tickets purchased.
That's not green, you should send it to a recycling center in China where they specialize in extracting your personal credit information to maximize value from the waste stream.
Or, you know, don't use FileVault on your home folder because that's the quickest way to nearly brick your MacBook Pro and have to reinstall everything from scratch. Been there, done that - decades of practice and they still get it wrong.
With a sledgehammer.
I'd like to see what the actual intended lifetime is of Apple products, by design. By observation, they seem to expect most of them to be replaced within 24 months or less, and the designs seem to intentionally self-destruct shortly thereafter.
Upgrades are for frugal customers, Apple doesn't want any.
Yep, EPA is a hell of a lot tighter on things they can measure with a Geiger counter than they are for stuff like mercury, lead, PCBs, etc.
As we all are, constantly. Madame Curie knew what she was doing wasn't healthy, too.
Why do your kids have access to a device that contains your credit, banking, debit, or other private information?
Seems to me that is the parenting failure right there.
The Amazon Kindle (Fire and otherwise) won't function without linkage to credit information. Amazon promotes this device for use by minor children and provides (apparently less than 100% effective) parental controls to enable parents to let the children use the device without permission to use the line of credit.
When your teenage child lifts your wallet and goes on a spending spree with your credit card, is that your parenting failure? Personally, I'd rather teach them early about limits and acceptable behavior instead of keeping everything under lock and key that they will eventually be able to break. A computer tablet at age 9 seems like a much safer way to learn than a credit card or checkbook at age 17.
I would consider any contract with the option to reverse to be non-binding...
Tracking shows lots of things arriving at my house that never actually got here... including the humor behind lots of internet jokes.
Amazon, and all web retailers, need to understand that they cannot enter binding contracts with minors.
Amazon in particular provides the Kindle tablet hardware with (laughably easy to circumvent) parental controls to prevent children from making purchases without parental permission, and yet, it happens anyway. They have cheerfully refunded all purchases that my children made, but we usually catch these things and start corrective actions within 24 hours or less... maybe it gets stickier if the parents don't notice until later.
In any event, the legal question- being decided in the lawsuit- is whether or not parents can be held accountable for contracts entered into by their minor children. That answer has always been: no, and the fact that children inadvertantly came to possess access to the parent's credit information without the parents' permission does not change that.
Two or three times now, our kids have "broken" the Kindle tablet's parental controls and ordered a bunch of stuff (apps, mostly) - so far, all it has ever taken is for us to dig up the (difficult to find) Amazon customer service links, chat with some dude in India for 5 minutes, and everything is refunded within a day or three.
Hell of a lot more efficient than a lawsuit.
The thing is, if he goes too far in denying world perception of reality (forget the debate about truth: perception is all there is) the world will backlash on him and start to isolate the US the way North Korea and Cuba have been isolated... It won't happen overnight, but with proposed 35% tariffs on trade, he's already starting to do it to us himself.
Absolutely, tweak the EC with more rules, twists, turns and intricacies such that only people who study it for years truly understand how it works. Develop a certified electoral college analyst curriculum and train hundreds of people to interpret what's going on for the rest of us. Surround it in mythos and lore, and then accept on faith that the system isn't bought, rigged or manipulated by people with influence and money.
Or, you know, just make it one vote per adult constituent.
Two paths, as a democracy - if we care enough, we should be able to choose the one we want to take.