digitaldeath
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Yes, I was covered for 3 years (the lifespan I'd give a laptop anyways).
During year two, the hard-drive failed. I rang Apple and had a new hard-drive delivered to my door the following day.
I must be out of my fecking mind.
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Yes, I was covered for 3 years (the lifespan I'd give a laptop anyways).
During year two, the hard-drive failed. I rang Apple and had a new hard-drive delivered to my door the following day.
I've got an angry wife to take care of first. :LOL:
Thanks for the suggestion/reminder though. Any ideas for what to get someone that has everything?
Thanks for the suggestion/reminder though. Any ideas for what to get someone that has everything?
Get him bacon and a vibrator. If he doesn't like the bacon, he can go fuck himself. 
Nah, I got no clue, man, don't be offended
Nah, I got no clue, man, don't be offended
DanLights
Santa Hat Forever
angry wife cause your wasting money on gear all the time? lol
Get your dad a grandson if you haven't given him one yet, that would be a cool present (and expensive)
Get your dad a grandson if you haven't given him one yet, that would be a cool present (and expensive)
I wouldn't call it wasting, more like just not spending all my money on her. Can't write that stuff off. :shrug:
That would mean I have to convince my wife to have sex with me. LOL Married people don't do that sort of thing.
DanLights
Santa Hat Forever
I wouldn't call it wasting, more like just not spending all my money on her. Can't write that stuff off. :shrug:
That would mean I have to convince my wife to have sex with me. LOL Married people don't do that sort of thing.
hahahahahahahaha
well good luck with that one then!
P.S. you don't get enough sex cause you don't waste enough money on her.
Just kidding around with ya
egan.
daylightdies.com
It's been totally worth it to me. I had a battery issue two years in and went to the apple store. I mentioned that my superdrive was picky about media and the response was "if you come back in an hour we will have your computer ready with a new drive and new battery."
Honestly this was the best customer service experience I've ever had.
A friend of mine had a dead pixel on his cinema display and they didn't even plug it in-- they just gave him a new one.
Unfortunately on my laptop I do not have AppleCare...but something broke and Apple fixed it for free for me because it was apparently a defect in the notebook anyway. I lucked out
Any time I have had to call Apple for tech support, they have been awesome...so I would imagine that paying for AppleCare is definitely a a good investment. I just don't like that the original warranty is only 90 days, but I am guessing that may be a common length of time for many manufacturers.
hmm, i have something of a style issue with the new MBP's.. haha. other than that i think they're quite good.
there is one thing to bear in mind (this is probably irrelevant to you, but), the 13" MBP's only have 6bit displays, as opposed to 8bit screens on the 15" and 17" MBPs. if you plan on doing any photo work, then that might not be so good..
but yes, audio forum, it's unlikely that'll be relevant to you!
as for apple care.. i didn't get it, but you do get 1 year support. i've had 5 new batterys since getting mine in january '07 (!!), not had to pay for a single one, and every time they've just sorted it out there and then.
there is one thing to bear in mind (this is probably irrelevant to you, but), the 13" MBP's only have 6bit displays, as opposed to 8bit screens on the 15" and 17" MBPs. if you plan on doing any photo work, then that might not be so good..
but yes, audio forum, it's unlikely that'll be relevant to you!
as for apple care.. i didn't get it, but you do get 1 year support. i've had 5 new batterys since getting mine in january '07 (!!), not had to pay for a single one, and every time they've just sorted it out there and then.
its worth buying the applecare. trust me! MBP`s are probably the model that applecare spends 70% of their time supporting! When i worked for applecare, over half of my calls were MBP`s with hardware issues :s (this could partly be due to the fact its their most popular model)
Well I'm pretty satisfied with the MacBook Pro.
Took me forever to find a Firewire 800 to 400 (9 pin to 6 pin) cable, looked at a dozen places locally and online, anyone that had them were sold out. THEN I found out there was an Apple Store nearby so I called and they had one. Last place I would have fucking looked normally. $35 for it.
So with the MBP and my Profire 2626 I armed PT 8 to record 10 tracks to the internal drive for 90 minutes (4.55 GB session). Took it like nothing which is great because mobile tracking will be easier now. I was always under the impression that you CANNOT record to the internal drive with Laptop, just going by the many threads on the DUC that say an external HD is mandatory.
I did some fairly common sense preparation on the system before doing the test. Keep in mind this is a 2 day old June 2009 model 13" Macbook Pro Dual 2.26GHz with 4GB Ram, results may vary.
System preferences:
-all networking disabled
-Energy saver on Power Adapter, both sliders to Max (Never), all check boxes unchecked.
-Screensaver on Never
PT Preferences:
16 bit 44.1 session
Dynamic transport off
Playback engine: 1024 samples, 2 cpus, 85% usage, ignore errors
Prefs: Operation> Limit to 100 Minutes, Editing> unchecked new tracks default to ticks, Processing> disable elastic audio on new tracks
This is two tracks and 30 minutes more than I'd need for a typical live recording so I'm happy. At least I know I'm not fucked if I forget my drive.
I'll test Reaper with similar setting next.
Took me forever to find a Firewire 800 to 400 (9 pin to 6 pin) cable, looked at a dozen places locally and online, anyone that had them were sold out. THEN I found out there was an Apple Store nearby so I called and they had one. Last place I would have fucking looked normally. $35 for it.
So with the MBP and my Profire 2626 I armed PT 8 to record 10 tracks to the internal drive for 90 minutes (4.55 GB session). Took it like nothing which is great because mobile tracking will be easier now. I was always under the impression that you CANNOT record to the internal drive with Laptop, just going by the many threads on the DUC that say an external HD is mandatory.
I did some fairly common sense preparation on the system before doing the test. Keep in mind this is a 2 day old June 2009 model 13" Macbook Pro Dual 2.26GHz with 4GB Ram, results may vary.
System preferences:
-all networking disabled
-Energy saver on Power Adapter, both sliders to Max (Never), all check boxes unchecked.
-Screensaver on Never
PT Preferences:
16 bit 44.1 session
Dynamic transport off
Playback engine: 1024 samples, 2 cpus, 85% usage, ignore errors
Prefs: Operation> Limit to 100 Minutes, Editing> unchecked new tracks default to ticks, Processing> disable elastic audio on new tracks
This is two tracks and 30 minutes more than I'd need for a typical live recording so I'm happy. At least I know I'm not fucked if I forget my drive.
I'll test Reaper with similar setting next.
MetallyGuitarded
He whom thou art not
Damn, droppin some karmic logic all up on your twins... You can't not do that and not look like an asshole.
Get him bacon and a vibrator. If he doesn't like the bacon, he can go fuck himself.
Nah, I got no clue, man, don't be offended
That's a good one man. That work on wives too? : )
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