Here's the kicker: they give him a support number to call so that he can give his information, address, etc. At this point there's nothing more we can do.so we are going to give you a new macbook."Īs he's telling me this I'm thinking well he's probably getting a refurbished one from a year or two back.nope, brand new, that years model. They said it was on this truck but it wasn't. Finally the manager came out and said "Here's the deal, we don't know where the part is. A week later he walked in asking about it, to which he had 3 different people, including at least one manager working with him to find answers. He kept calling for a status and they said they are still waiting for the part to come in, that it was coming from Texas. Well his local apple store (in Boston) had the thing for about 3 weeks. He was well out of warranty but figured he couldn't afford a new Macbook so he might as well bring it in and spend a bit to replace the airport. The best story I have witnessed was a friend of mine who had an older 2004-ish White iBook. I didn't realize expect anything but just thought I would mention it. There was only one time they didn't help me when my 6's screen was scratching up from just normal wear in my pocket. To this day I have been impressed with Apples customer support. This subreddit is not endorsed or sponsored by Apple Inc. If you'd like to view their content together, click here. This fundamental difference in audience is why we support two communities, r/Apple and r/AppleHelp. Apple SubredditsĬontent which benefits the community (news, rumors, and discussions) is valued over content which benefits only the individual (technical questions, help buying/selling, rants, etc.).
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Or in the case of the consumer this means you keep folders for large imported or created data and you ritually offload and archive this data for safekeeping, not only to safeguard the data in case your macbook has a HD crash, or gets stolen, but importantly in keeping the ‘breathing room’ open for your computer to operate, expand, create files, add applications, for your APPS to create temp files, and for general operation.Welcome to r/Apple, the unofficial community for Apple news, rumors, and discussions.
Professionals who create and import very large amounts of data have almost no change in the available space on their computers internal HD because they are constantly archiving data to arrays of external or networked HD. You should never be put in the position of considering “deleting things” on your macbook SSD in order to ‘make space’.
In the case of a Macbook Air or Macbook Pro Retina with ‘limited’ storage on the SSD, this distinction becomes more important in that in an ever rapidly increasing file-size world, you keep vital large media files, pics, video, PDF collections, music off your SSD and archived on external storage, for sake of the necessary room for your system to have free space to operate, store future applications and general workspace. If your not using it every 2 weeks or so, it really doesnt need OWC sells SSD upgrades for your macbook AirĬonsider storing large media files OFF your computer and on an external HD. Thats not memory (RAM), thats your SSD, your storageĬan be done yes, but very expensive and very impractical idea