My sister called round last night for newsgroup tech support

Only issue was it was on a MBP

Never touched a mac before now tbh

After getting over the immense feeling of being up my own ass and coming over all arty, I soon got the hang of it.

They are a strange beast after using Windows for so long.

I don't like the fact that the minimize and what not are arse about tit and the install process is different to say the least, but other than I quite enjoyed myself.

How much can I charge for fixing these things ??:p

Not much, 'cos they don't go wrong

Not much, 'cos they don't go wrong

I beg to differ, I recall Fluffmeisters wouldn't connect to my Wifi before now.

£45 call out sound good ??

The ability to right click with one hand would be good though lol

The ability to right click with one hand would be good though lol

what by placing two fingers on the trackpad then clicking?

what by placing two fingers on the trackpad then clicking?

I blame me sister lol, lack of info there,

Cheers I'll remember that.

£50 quid will be about right for it mate, and yes my MBP was very picky about what Wi-Fi it would or would not connect to, just like the bluetooth that is built in but would not connect to the piephone

Or my 27" iMac (Bought by someone else I might add) that has gone wrong so many times the fecking thing actually knows the route to the apple store and the "genius (my arse) bar", I look at the iMac as more of a 27" monitor now for my Windows 7 PC

Not much, 'cos they don't go wrong

Yep, OK then. Are you actually being serious, or has the irony not made it across the Internet?

Yep, OK then. Are you actually being serious, or has the irony not made it across the Internet?

I heard from someone "it just works"

The ability to right click with one hand would be good though lol

By setting up right click you can...

How much can I charge for fixing these things ??:p

I seem to remember being told that if the mac mini was out of warranty, a flat bios battery would have allegedly cost £100, so based on that and the retail price, I'd say quite a lot.

However, as already pointed out, it just works and never goes wrong so you'll never get any work

Edited 20 January, 201115 yr by cheezemonkhai

Yep, OK then. Are you actually being serious, or has the irony not made it across the Internet?

I was being serious, we have an eMac (6 years old) and an iMac (3 years old), both, as someone else said, just work (runs off to touch a piece of timber).

I was just speaking from personal experience.

I'll +1 on Mac reliability.

We have one of the very first Intel iMacs, 2 x 1st Gen iPod Touch, 2 iPhones, iPad, AppleTV and Airport Extreme, it just works, no crashes, no bugs, no problems.

We're a mac family. I use a 24" 3ghz iMac for work (3years old in April) a MacBook for out and about, and an iPad for presentations. - I'm a photographer, and use 25million pixel images.

My wife has a MacBook for school use (teacher) running windows 7 in parallels desktop.

We've never had a problem with any of the machines, and won't go back to a PC. - they are expensive but work well.

Al.

I'll +1 on Mac reliability.

We have one of the very first Intel iMacs, 2 x 1st Gen iPod Touch, 2 iPhones, iPad, AppleTV and Airport Extreme, it just works, no crashes, no bugs, no problems.

+ another 1 here, only have a 2010 MBP at the mo, but looking into a 27' imac to replace my now hardly used Windows 7 desktop.. I now prefer OSX to windows, and only use windows at work for compatibility. I use my MBP in the office with Windows 7 running under VMWare Fusion.

My MBP was 100% reliable, my 27" iMac is a steaming pile of crap, this is the second one after the first being swapped out and this has had a DVD drive go pop, has lazy pixels and has now developed the fault where it can't find it's system files so every now and again it won't boot, I get a folder icon and have to cold boot it.

Performance has returned now though since defragging the drive, which is great as when it's working it's great.

Ps don't believe they don't need a defrag, OSX is not interested in files over 20mb in size so if you do a lot of raw photo editing the drive takes a beating.

Edited 28 January, 201115 yr by fluffmeister

My MBP was 100% reliable, my 27" iMac is a steaming pile of crap, this is the second one after the first being swapped out and this has had a DVD drive go pop, has lazy pixels and has now developed the fault where it can't find it's system files so every now and again it won't boot, I get a folder icon and have to cold boot it.

Performance has returned now though since defragging the drive, which is great as when it's working it's great.

Ps don't believe they don't need a defrag, OSX is not interested in files over 20gb in size so if you do a lot of raw photo editing the drive takes a beating.

Just out of interest what do you use to defrag? I was under the impression they didn't need it but all the ones i look after are getting slower by the day...

Just out of interest what do you use to defrag? I was under the impression they didn't need it but all the ones i look after are getting slower by the day...

It's not free but it's bloody good mate http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php there is a trial version which will give you a fragmentation report, mine was horrendous and idefrag made a huge improvement .

I mainly use my iMac for large media files and editing photos which it is great for, but I am defragging on a bi monthly basis to keep things tip top

Cheers for that - just run the demo on a MBP and it is stating 0.0% fragmentation!

Cheers for that - just run the demo on a MBP and it is stating 0.0% fragmentation!

You are sorted then mate, mine was over 50% but I am playing aound with some large video files and messing about with photos.

I use disktools pro to defragment the OSX hdd, despite what apple says a defrag can improve performance quiet a lot.

http://www.macwareinc.com/products/DiskToolsPro/overview.html