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Use Boot Camp
by mrmacfixit 
- 1/13/10 4:47 PM
In Reply to: Can I wipe a mac? by sportsstud35
and create a very large partition for Windows.
Boot into Windows.
Stay there.
But, one has to ask, if you hate Mac's and everything Apple and have never had good luck with them, why would you consider getting one to turn into a Windows machine?
The hardware would be the same, you still would not have any luck with them.
When was the last time you used one?
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hmm
by sportsstud35 - 1/13/10 6:22 PM
In Reply to: Use Boot Camp by mrmacfixit
Well my last time using one was about 3 weeks ago - trying to get my girlfriends up and running, Shes been through 4 in little over 2 years and has been treated terrible by their customer support.
I owned one about a year ago, and again, died and no help from support even though it was alittle more then 6 months old- but because I put windows on it to run some programs for school my warranty was void.
but this one is a $1500 laptop that I can get for $200 to hold me over for a while, and a good move up on the processor speed.
the hardware for the most part seems to be okay, its the os that has alot of issues, and some hard drive but for the processor for 1 or 2 school programs it will work, hopefully
Not true about the warranty!
by mrmacfixit - 1/14/10 9:49 AM
In Reply to: hmm by sportsstud35
"I owned one about a year ago, and again, died and no help from support even though it was alittle more then 6 months old- but because I put windows on it to run some programs for school my warranty was void."
Installing windows on your Mac does NOT void the warranty. Not even close.
A dead machine is a dead machine and is covered by the warranty, as long as you did not drop, kick, irrigate or sit on it to cause it to die.
So, was that really a true story or just a tale from someone who hates Macs?
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voids warrantee
by tek-ed - 1/15/10 5:17 PM
In Reply to: Not true about the warranty! by mrmacfixit
Yeah, but if you smoke around your Mac, that *DOES* void your warrantee!
Ed
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bad customer service
by sportsstud35 - 1/15/10 8:53 PM
In Reply to: Not true about the warranty! by mrmacfixit
I'm aware that installing windows should not void the warentee, which is one of my issues with mac. It was infact the sales person and the store manager at my local apple store who said it. I could tell from the minute they booted it up to see the issues I was having of random shut downs. The minute they saw windows come up their attitude changed from willing to help to you sol. I later called apple customer serive, filled a complaint, and felt as if nothing was done, as a few days later I got the same reply from that store,
The ha
that's a story change.
by mrmacfixit - 1/16/10 7:30 AM
In Reply to: bad customer service by sportsstud35
You initially claimed that the machine died, now the story is that you took it in for random shutdowns and it booted in the store.
While it is true that the Apple Store, or Apple, will offer support for a Mac running Windows, no more than Dell will offer support for one of their machines that is running OS X, all you had to say was that it shut down randomly while running OS X.
There is no "should not void" it is a definite "does not void". Just don't expect to get support for Windows from Apple. Microsoft would have been a better place to contact or one of the forums.
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(NT) Read the original post
by mrmacfixit - 1/16/10 7:31 AM
In Reply to: Wipr Mac without keeping your privacy at stake by tompatricka-23280893969061158131433399934175
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