Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Drag and drop?

So I carefully dropped my iphone into a glass of water this morning. Should I take it to an Apple store for repair (i dont have apple care, bought it secondhand). I went to my local sketchy phone shop today to buy a shit backup phone and they said they could fix it for £40-£60 but I dont really want to trust them with all the info on my phone.
Or does anyone else have any suggestions for an alternative?
cheers

Do what you can to dry it out now. Put it in a bag of rice to start with. Then get something like this.

http://www.firebox.com/product/6432/Reviveaphone

Rice is good, silica gel sachets are better, but pop it in a plastic bag and in a nice warm place (airing cupboard is ideal if you have one) and leave it for 48 hours at least.

DO NOT turn it on whilst it's damp.

Yeah what they said. Lass at work got pushed into a swimming pool on holiday with iPod, 2 days in rice it's all working fine.

Rice is tried and tested here, not with an iPhone but same difference, innit!

i dropped it in the water, pulled it out, the phone went to shutdown screen. I shut it down then it tried to turn itself on, apple logo, then off did that 2 more times then just buzzed for 2 mins then turned off. Im pretty sure its fucked.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good macbook pro case with some degree of shockproofing? I've got a 15" retina so I feel something decent is in order for when it leaves the house.

I'll be cycling very carefully when it's on my back!

I use a felt sleeve from Byrd and Belle. Has done the job so far.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good macbook pro case with some degree of shockproofing? I've got a 15" retina so I feel something decent is in order for when it leaves the house.

I'll be cycling very carefully when it's on my back!

I've got a Thule case for my 15", all good so far... I take it to the office/polo on my bike all the time...

I use a felt sleeve from Byrd and Belle. Has done the job so far.

I forget about them, need to replace the lost cover, good shout.

Help plz! Having made two backups (one Time Machine and one bootable SuperDuper), I would like to secure-erase my late 2009 iMac's HD and start afresh with a clean install of Mavericks. I did exactly this recently on my 2010 MPB having also made a bootable copy of Mavericks on a USB stick, and it worked perfectly. Not so with the iMac!

Until last night I was running Snow Leopard. The option to erase the machine's HD was greyed out in Disk Utility. I tried to boot in recovery mode repeatedly (cmd-r) but it would not let me, and just restarts as normal. Is my recovery partition missing? So next I booted in holding down the alt key and was able to install Mavericks over the existing. I still have no options to erase HD and still cannot boot in recovery. Over to you!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5219048

second post.

also from there, you could try this...

you can boot to internet recovery on a mac running 10.7 or later by holding down command+option+R on startup this accesses apple servers directly and has all the functionality of the recovery partition on the HD

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5219048

second post.

also from there, you could try this...

Thanks, but: I installed Mavericks off a bootable installer I made on a USB key. Just an OS installer, not from an HD clone. cmd-option-r does not work either; boots as normal.

Some forum folk are saying that this is a known issue with Mavericks and that installing ML, doing secure-erase, then installing Mav is the way to go; but I don't have ML or in fact any previous version of the OS... Gah!

check the bottom post in that thread about the firmware issue maybe, I vaguely recall having to do something similiar when I installed ram in my macbook aeons ago.

any ideas why my new MacBook air won't boot from my SuperDuper backup of my MPB HD (10.6.8)?

could be the same reason you can't use an osx disc from an iMac in an Macbook?

dunno. Ended up using migration assistant.

Love that, we use it all the time at work. Dunno if it carries over all the junk as well though?

Would this give me a nice clean install without any gunk?

Currently using macbook A
Use migration assistant to set up a new user on iMac B from macbook A
Do a clean install of latest osx on macbook A
Use migration assistant from iMac B to get macbook A back in action

?

I don't know how much legacy crap it carries over. I just asked it to move apps and network settings so I can get on with working. Everything I need for work will be on my dropbox when I link that up.

Back to having a 128gb hd too :-/ ... only real drawback of MB Air

Lacie do affordable Thunderbolt drives btw.... the rugged ones...

There's always something a bit hollow about getting a new Mac. I get excited when I order it.. then when it comes you realise you've basically spent a grand on a pen/screwdriver/tool.

Always the case. You got the same thing, but faster and shinier

Dont say that... I'm getting into the idea of a new laptop and want that good feeling...

I'm contemplating getting the 27" Thunderbolt Display for my Mac Mini.

Anyone have one who can talk me into / out of doing so?