Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Fuck. I've got one of them but misplaced it somewhere, possibly in our flat... Would be lovely with a new nano, if nothing else just to sell it on.

I guess 1st gen nano's will go for quite a bit now on ebay

rang apple earlier and the bloke on the phone seemed to think that it would be replaced with a different 1st generation nano, not anything else.

i won't bother unless it involves a replacement with something better!

Went to the most unhelpful apple store in the world yesterday.
"Hi, it says on the apple website that you're doing a recall on 1st Gen Ipod Nanos"
"Does it? Where?"
(shows him on his fancy pants ipad)
"Oh. You'll need to make an appointment at the genius bar. You might get one this weekend if your lucky. Whats your name."
(waited at the genius bar instead and spoke to a 'genius')
"You need to do all the registration on line. I can't do anything to help you."
"It says on line that I can just bring it in"
"No, you need to do it all online."
"What will it be replaced with? A new nano or an old one?"
"it will be like for like."
"So a new nano or an old one? will they just pop a new battery in?"
"It will be like for like"
"So just another old nano? or a new one?"
"It will be like for like."

I remember when apple shops were empty and helpful, and staff didn't just look on the apple website and type in the exact same question you ask into the help section like anybody could do.

you pay iPeanuts, you get iMonkeys......

"What will it be replaced with? A new nano or an old one?"
"it will be like for like."
"So a new nano or an old one? will they just pop a new battery in?"
"It will be like for like"
"So just another old nano? or a new one?"
"It will be like for like."

I read those responses in the Mac text to speech voice, like that 'I want an iPhone' video.

So I've cocked up big time and need some help! I've basically screwed up my hackintosh install and need to restore it with a Lion USB. The problem is before I do this I need to run a little program called Unibeast on a Mac which installs a little bit of extra stuff onto the USB so it will boot on my PC. This is a problem because I just sold my hackintosh laptop to eyebrows, so I have no other Mac.

Nobody I know has a Mac (as far as I know) so could I use someone's Mac to do this? They'll be beer or cake in it for you, plus eternal gratitude...

Macrumors are reporting the people are already receiving their replacement iPod nanos ....

Refurbished old models, not new ones.

Nobody I know has a Mac (as far as I know) so could I use someone's Mac to do this? They'll be beer or cake in it for you, plus eternal gratitude...

Where are you based? I have two macs in shepherds bush.

Oh yeah, I should have said that, thanks. Newington Green, work in Canary Wharf.

I can be at LMNH in less than ten minutes from home so someone who hangs around Look Mum with a laptop would work.

Thanks though and if I don't get a nearer offer I'll happily ride to Shepherd's Bush. Just not via the Westway like last time :/

Went to the most unhelpful apple store in the world yesterday.
"Hi, it says on the apple website that you're doing a recall on 1st Gen Ipod Nanos"
"Does it? Where?"
(shows him on his fancy pants ipad)
"Oh. You'll need to make an appointment at the genius bar. You might get one this weekend if your lucky. Whats your name."
(waited at the genius bar instead and spoke to a 'genius')
"You need to do all the registration on line. I can't do anything to help you."
"It says on line that I can just bring it in"
"No, you need to do it all online."
"What will it be replaced with? A new nano or an old one?"
"it will be like for like."
"So a new nano or an old one? will they just pop a new battery in?"
"It will be like for like"
"So just another old nano? or a new one?"
"It will be like for like."

I remember when apple shops were empty and helpful, and staff didn't just look on the apple website and type in the exact same question you ask into the help section like anybody could do.

They'll replace what you have wit ha new one. Same.

They'll replace what you have wit ha new one. Same.

... so presumeably, they are refurbished, or they've gone into production to make brand new modified mk1 nanos!?!?

Anyone here able to swap out a DVD drive for a solid state drive on a MBP 5,1?
Obv can pay in beers or monies...

Oh yeah, I should have said that, thanks. Newington Green, work in Canary Wharf.

I can be at LMNH in less than ten minutes from home so someone who hangs around Look Mum with a laptop would work.

Thanks though and if I don't get a nearer offer I'll happily ride to Shepherd's Bush. Just not via the Westway like last time :/

Will a hackintosh Dell Mini 10v be adequate?

TBF getting an appointment with a 'genius' when the Apple store opened on Regent St was like pulling teeth, and not in a good way.

Anyone here able to swap out a DVD drive for a solid state drive on a MBP 5,1?
Obv can pay in beers or monies...

;) c'mon Chris, you can do it!

Ha, I bloody can't! I doubt I could even replace the drive despite watching you do it... Thinking of swapping out my DVD for a second HD- Solid state to boot and run apps from... maybe... and links that could point me in the right direction, guessing I need a conversion kit of some sort?

yeah there are loads of optical drive caddy converters:

caddys

you get the idea from this video:

video

whats your model number of your mac?

Boom!
Cheers man, it's a 5,1 I think... way pre unibody!

no prob, ah well theres not much different in the half bodies just two panels to come off.

you can find out what model of 5,1 mac you have in system info within the about this mac menu, just find a caddy that is compatible with yours e.g. :

MB766/A
MB470/A
MB471*/A - Late 2008

MB470/A
MC026/A
MB604*/A - Early 2009

then just use Disk Util to format the drive - you can do it no prob, if you need a hand give me a shout - ill be back in the uk on the 4th dec

You know I will end up having to give you a shout right? Ha..
Cheers for all the tips...
Where are ya atm?

In Palo Alto with work :D right next to San Francisco!

Tough times! Hope you were able to take yer bike...

haha nah I did think about it, but left it to late! ill just need to think of a good business reason to get sent out again..

Will a hackintosh Dell Mini 10v be adequate?

Sorry, I forgot to look at this thread, it would have been thanks, but in the end I went round to Sumos and used his. What I was trying to do failed anyway, in the end I reinstalled Snow Leopard, made a bootable Lion USB with it as a rescue USB, wiped the HD again, recovered using my time machine backup to 10.7.1 then upgraded to 10.7.2 the right way, which was actually really easy and worked perfectly first time.

So everything is now good again and I have iCloud, although I'm not sure what I'm actually going to do with it, being Google Mail/Calendar/Contacts dependent.

I'm very impressed with time machine FWIW, the backups are well worth making. If you have Lion it's also really worth having a bootable Lion USB drive, just in case.

Time machine FWIW?