Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

I'd forgotten about that. Although taking your hand off the keyboard, picking up the pen and tapping the screen seems slow.

Just over three weeks to get your battery replaced for £25...back up to £45 in January.

Got my iPhone SE (bought mid-2016) simply swapped for a new one yesterday as they said they had issues when trying to open it up, which was a result - whole process was around two hours from dropping off to being available to pick up.

Got mine done a couple of weeks back. Not sure what difference it’s made but feels anecdotally as if the battery lasts longer when not being used. Don’t feel like I have to have the phone constantly on charge.

Mine was night and day

Huge fan of mine. I've got the S4 and my oh has the S3. Hers definitely looks like a significantly dated design if that matters. Get the bigger screen unless your dad has tiny wrists.

did they wipe the phone and reinstall everything?

He's a gas engineer so big rough hands, i'll get the big one. Think i'll get the 4 and avoid the 3.

As mine was swapped out for a new phone I needed to reinstall the lot from fresh - upgraded to the 50GB iCloud for 79p a month before going in and did a big back-up.

I think if they had managed to replace the battery my data would have been fine, as the guy picking his battery replaced phone up next to me still had the wallpaper and everything as handed in.

Worth backing up, basically.

did you make an appointment in advance or just walk in?
keen to have my 5s done, thanks for the heads up

Booked in advance for Bluewater just to secure a slot, but there was someone in front of me that was a walk-in and was told it'd be around two and a half hours. Would have thought better to book a slot then you're guaranteed to be seen!

My wife got her iPhone 6 sorted this morning...appointment at 09.20 and was ready at 10.40 - original phone returned with new battery and no data loss, although she was asked if she had backed everything up just in case (which she had).

Can book a slot online here.

Magic need to get it booked in and will back up just incase.

Anybody know why when Safari on my 2013 MacBook Air has a little moment, ie spinny wheel or something which takes a little too long to load... BBC iPlayer on my iPad crashes? They're both on the same network, but it happens daily for some bizarre reason.

Vague price ideas for my early-2011 15" Pro? 2.2 i7, 256GB SSD and 16GB of RAM. Battery is super dodgy but that's about it.

Tricked out 13" is on the way.

Probably not a lot TBH. I sold a similar specs 2011 MBP minus the SSD for £450 about 3 years ago... Maybe a couple hundred?

Entire new keyboard on my MBP June 4th, the surface of the "D" key is already lifting, Apple say that they only give a 90 day warranty on repairs, so I can get fucked.

It's £360 to replace the keyboard, out of warranty - therefore if they wear at the same speed, on average it'll cost me £1,000 a year on keyboards.

How old is your MBP and did you buy it from Apple directly? If so, throw the consumer rights legislation uk at them, that effectively gives you 6 years warranty as long as you can proof you havent been punching the keyboard or havent been typing with a hammer.

From my experience, their default position is to ask for money, you throw the law at them, they say no, you insist, they say no, you ask to speak to the manager, they then take your machine to the back, probably pretend to consult someone, they make you wait for as long as they can get away with, they eventually come out fully compliance with the law.

Tried it many times over the years, yet to paye a penny to Apple for any and all repair.

Anyone bought a replacement battery before? I see lots of similar looking sites, none of which look entirely reputable. Looks like the swap is simple enough (A1237 Air). Just don't want to create an IED...

I've replaced a screen on a 4S, was pretty straight forward.

Why not do it through apple before NYE?

macbook air as opposed to iphone. its from ~2011ish so well out of apple doing it age.

aha. Seems pretty straight forward according to iFixit. I'd get their replacement battery. They should be big enough to be trustworthy

long shot but does anyone know what this part is?

edit: got it, airport board

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I'd like to upgrade a Macbook Pro (late 2011). Max out the RAM and install an SSD etc. Can anyone recommend somewhere that can do it all for me?

Is there a specific reason you'd like someone else do it for you?
It's practically just a few screws you have to pull out and that's it. iFixit.com also has quite good guides with side informations and photos of which screws to unscrew

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