Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

So got a call back from a manager from the apple store and they are gonna see me 1st thing tomorrow morning... they are now saying the issues are software related... Let's see...

Booked my 2011 macbook in for the logic board replacement next friday, exciting times! Need to remember to put the original hdd back in before I go

Do you have to?

I'm not entirely sure if it has to be original but at the moment there is no hdd in there at all. I think you have to show them it isn't working first so it needs some kind of hard drive in it

Anyone want a 2004/5/6/ish iMac (21" from memory). Free to someone that'll use it.

I let a friend borrow it a few years ago and she's moving so it's somewhere in West London for takes.

I see... coz I was gonna say I didn't bother putting the original ram in and they didn't seem bother...

Run disk first aid and fix permissions?

So the verdict is they are gonna find out what is the cause of my Mac not waking up from sleep by carrying out 1 last day long test, and if that fails, they have hinted, not saying in so many words, I will get a replacement Mac. Funny how the technicians disagreed with each other in front of customers, this goes to show how little some of them know about computers...

you're the one sending a computer back because it took 22 seconds to boot.

lolz ; )

When it happens pretty much everytime it wakes from sleep, when it only takes less than 10 secs to boot from off, and when you have spent over £1k on a machine, yes. Posh 1st world problem.

Did you try turning it off, then back on again?

What permissions?

Thanks

As it happens, no... should I?

Google Mac disk first aid or fixing disk permissions OS X. It's dead simple.
Sorry, would elaborate but on my phone.

Can't tell you what permissions are, but they need repairing from time to time it seems...
Use finder to track down Disk Utility, then in the left panel click on you OSX install on your main drive. The main window under first aid should then show option to verify permissions and repair disk permissions. You don't need to verify first, just go ahead and click repair. Let it do its thing...that's it...

fucking OSX. Just in the last week my MBP loses wifi every ~1 hour or so. Reboot doesn't help.
It seems it's the wifi adapter going into suspend mode again randomly.

SOS. My mid 2010 mbp gave up the ghost today. Was plugged in at work and showing 0% charge (although magsafe was lit up.) Clicked battery status in toolbar and it showed 'not Charging' so I unthinkingly flicked the charger in an out - usually solves whatever pickle it's in. Obviously the machine shut down. Now the battery pack is showing no power - Machine will boot to grey apple and progress bar but then clicks off from 0 power. plethora of magsafe adaptors constantly showing bright green for full charge - presumably why it won't boot. I've tried a PRAM reset and reseating the battery.

Is it likely just the battery gassed? It was well overdue replacing. Or could it be more sinister?

Most likely you need a replacement battery, but it could be an SMC/PMU problem which would require a logic board replacement.

It't not unreasonable to assume a battery that old can just give up the ghost without a song and dance by way of warning right? That was my only fear - the transition from fully functional, to dead.

I had a 2007 MBP whose battery suddenly died. I feared the worst, but was an easy fix after all.

I don't know if you can run that model with the battery removed, but you could try that to remove on thing from the equation.

Sounds bad. Likely motherboard failure.

Afaik, when a laptop battery is excessively old, or damaged in some way, using it can damage the hardware that detects it and controls its use. So you might have broken that fing, ennit.

Dear Apple, could we please have updated MBP's today please. Thank you.

Back cover of iPhone 4S cracked, feared an expensive kit purchase. £2.89 on eBay including tool and P&P. Bargain.

Would crack again.

Highly unlikely there'll be a new MBP today I'm afraid. Intel are yet to release Broadwell chips in the same class as those used in the current MBPr's :(