tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post3886721382562205635..comments2024-03-20T10:01:20.599+00:00Comments on Dave Gorman: I. Hate. Apple.Dave Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02260701102207639816noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-79011106158289203992009-09-23T17:27:44.932+01:002009-09-23T17:27:44.932+01:00"I will never let Apple Computer dictate to m..."I will never let Apple Computer dictate to me what I can or can't do with my own data or electronic devices. My data is my own."<br /><br />Good for you -- as a happy Apple user, that goes for me too. And they've certainly never told me what to do with my data or devices.scottishwildcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08042267560075921334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-52772318382780525482009-09-23T15:39:22.202+01:002009-09-23T15:39:22.202+01:00I've never bought an Apple product and never w...I've never bought an Apple product and never will. I promise.<br /><br />I will never let Apple Computer dictate to me what I can or can't do with my own data or electronic devices. My data is my own.<br /><br />Maybe you could have a look at GNU Emacs?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-14184515953465907512009-09-08T09:17:49.549+01:002009-09-08T09:17:49.549+01:00In reply to Dougalan who said "...Turns out t...In reply to Dougalan who said "...Turns out there's a little known Euro law giving a statutory guarantee of 2 years on electronic equipment."<br /><br />Its actually a misunderstanding of the EUs use of the word guarantee. In the first place this law doesn't apply in the UK as we have the Sale of Goods Act which overrides this and has a 6 year time limit. <br /><br />BUT<br />This (and the EU law) means that you can claim a replacement/refund/repair within 6 years of you purchasing it IF you can prove the item went wrong in the first year. However after "reasonable" return time you may only be entitled to a reduction in the price of goods reflecting the use had up til that point.<br /><br />More information can be found here :<br />http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/after_you_buy/know-your-rights/SGAknowyourrights/<br /><br />No more Daily Mail YOU HAVE RIGHTS misinformation please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-74439763414911970372009-08-27T12:42:05.379+01:002009-08-27T12:42:05.379+01:00I can't beleive that guy doesn't like pean...I can't beleive that guy doesn't like peanut butter.<br />What a meany. I love peanut butter and think everybody else should too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-74737665784871352062009-08-26T17:13:26.103+01:002009-08-26T17:13:26.103+01:00Thank you Apple fan boys for your dogged support. ...Thank you Apple fan boys for your dogged support. Dog biscuits available to all the faithful at the Apple store for only $999. All biscuits are distributed under licence and remain property of Apple corp. Spares and support available exclusively from Apple corp. Warranties may be invalidated if your biscuit is used for any purpose beyond those specified by Apple corp in your user agreement.SteveJobshttp://mgfgtg.blog.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-65054849033893363392009-08-26T09:20:01.159+01:002009-08-26T09:20:01.159+01:00Well said Dave. I'm a fellow Mac user (and hav...Well said Dave. I'm a fellow Mac user (and have been for over 18 years). I really appreciate my Mac user experience and find the experience a lot calmer than using a PC. However I also struggle with the <i>"Thou shalt not utter blasphemy against the all powerful Mac"</i> attitude of some users.<br /><br />At the end of the day it's just a computer... and yes they always go wrong just at the wrong moment.<br /><br />Now if somebody can just tell me how to sync my Mac and Blackberry properly I'll be even happier. I had one of those "screaming at the side of the road" moments yesterday when I lost all my contacts off the Blackberry.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10818122532639192253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-30856622754035035702009-08-25T17:37:35.927+01:002009-08-25T17:37:35.927+01:00Dave, if you think you got it in the neck check th...Dave, if you think you got it in the neck check this out http://is.gd/2y9xzakhen3sirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02214410330185353441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-85981298697423965662009-08-25T17:30:09.518+01:002009-08-25T17:30:09.518+01:00Oh dear Anonymous, you really are worked up about ...Oh dear Anonymous, you really are worked up about the fact that someone who'd just spent more money than he wanted to on a solution that was required quickly had a little moan on the internet about it. Let it go. I have.<br /><br />You say: <em>If you had bothered to think for a minute, renting an Apple laptop would have been far quicker and far cheaper than buying another one whilst waiting for your laptop to be fixed</em><br /><br />Actually it wouldn't. Because by the time my computer (it's a desktop) would have been fixed I would have been hundreds of miles from home and unable to collect it or take delivery of it. But it's really by-the-by... it was a rant borne out of frustration because of my particular circumstances - a severe lack of time and a computer that decided to fail at the exact worst time. Writing it is no different to screaming a scream of anguish by the side of the road because your car's just broken down and you're now going to be late for something important. <br /><br /><br />(Especially if being late for that something was going to cost you dearly and especially if your cars manufacturer had a policy that only allowed their garages to fix things for you and at a slower pace than a regular garage might fix a similar fault on another car... but I digress) <br /><br />Surely being angry at inanimate objects that frustrate us is - while deeply irrational - normal behaviour. I wouldn't trust someone who's never cursed at something for "letting him down."<br /><br />I'm sure my rant will do Apple no harm and I'm sure that if anyone from the company were to stumble across this entry they would see it as nothing more than someone letting off steam because of the cursed timing of a component's failure.<br /><br />But having people leap to their defence as though every word ever typed on the internet has to carry the same weight of importance as every other word ever typed is, well, faintly ridiculous. A diva-ish rant? Perhaps. But that's more prejudice about my job than anything else because I suspect a plumber feeling similarly let down would have a similar rant and not be accused of being divaish.<br /><br />I'm just letting off steam. You can do the same somewhere. Go on... I think you probably need it. Just don't make it too divaish. D xDave Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02260701102207639816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-15217881267578908692009-08-25T15:09:36.902+01:002009-08-25T15:09:36.902+01:00Dave, Dave, you like me are self employed so it...Dave, Dave, you like me are self employed so it's a business expense (let accountant it sort out) — nothing lost OK. Get Apple Care after 1st year or is that two (see dougalan) just in case. When next bus load of Wonga arrives from Tour / Voiceovers / Endorsements (I'm thinking Iceland here) get your parents something from Refurb store in time for Christmas. Again accountant can sort you out. <br /><br />But as already suggested, shouting "Don't you know who I am!" i the middle of Regent Street store may work, and I don't think all those YouTube vids of you being ejected from the Apple store would harm your career. Quite the opposite in fact!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-80346271966619962342009-08-25T13:24:07.970+01:002009-08-25T13:24:07.970+01:00Hi Dave
Thanks again for coming to Andover, i th...Hi Dave <br /><br />Thanks again for coming to Andover, i thought you show was really really good. I have'nt laughed as much as that for ages. You really did'nt have to be so nice to Andover it really is not as good as that! <br /><br />Good luck with the actual tour!<br />RichardRichardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-60347451907981349372009-08-25T12:57:39.196+01:002009-08-25T12:57:39.196+01:00Quote: "Where I think it is reasonable to fee...Quote: "Where I think it is reasonable to feel ire towards Apple is in relation to their closed shop. If it was any other kind of electrical appliance that had failed I could probably have found someone to repair or replace the part this morning."<br /><br />What utter bollocks. You clearly know nothing of the proprietary nature of non-Apple laptops if you think you can just walk in somewhere with a 4 year non-Apple laptop and get something like a motherboard changed there and then.<br /><br />If you had bothered to think for a minute, renting an Apple laptop would have been far quicker and far cheaper than buying another one whilst waiting for your laptop to be fixed (in what is a reasonable turnaround time compared to some HP and Toshiba repairs I have managed).<br /><br />You have no sympathy from me with this "diva" rant of yours.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-3752059183232875822009-08-25T05:12:29.089+01:002009-08-25T05:12:29.089+01:00I will give you the very thing that you are lookin...I will give you the very thing that you are looking for - my reaction. Ooh, you hate Apple. I hate peanut butter. It is so banal to stumble on this kind of crap. You should thank Apple for giving you something to bitch about and actually have people give a shit. If you had the same experience with Lenovo, nobody would even read your blog. PR whore.<br /><br />And yes, I am too lazy to put in my credentials, so I am going anonymous. Want to email me for comment, here it is: eldon.tyrell@mac.com<br /><br />Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-89656724833589575332009-08-25T02:48:17.455+01:002009-08-25T02:48:17.455+01:00David,
It's not like your data is permanently...David,<br /><br />It's not like your data is permanently gone. It's still on your hard drive, just like the last time your machine booted. Go buy a SATA to USB adapter from Fry's or online. It will cost you all of $15 or $20 bucks. Then remove your laptop hard drive, plug it into the adapter, and you can use it on any other computer just as if it was an external drive. I've used this technique 3 times in the past year, as two of my wife's PC laptops (a Dell and a Compaq) both died within 2.5 years of purchase. (The Compaq actually died outside of a year, and we didn't find out about the Class Action Lawsuit until a it was too late.) Then a friend's 2.5 year old HP died last month, and he was able to recover his data with it as well. 4.5 years isn't great for a Mac, but compared with the shit laptops everybody else is making these days, it's hard to complain.<br /><br />I've got a Macbook going on 3 years and a Powerbook that is going on SEVEN years. (Original PB G4, although none of the batteries work any more and it has sustained severe frame damage from multiple drops, it mostly sits on a desk these days.) I'm just now porting some of my software development work from the old beast since Mac OS X 10.1 isn't really a minimum requirement for anything these days.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08073689194764226267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-87971526680095566032009-08-24T21:42:12.104+01:002009-08-24T21:42:12.104+01:00I've lost a few apples of various guises after...I've lost a few apples of various guises after less than 24 months and with their customer service being no help at all unless i was prepared to make a 3hr journey to one of their stores, i've just stopped buying them.<br /><br />I doubt me avoiding them will help, but hey.... a matter of principle!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-68305389262833534142009-08-24T19:17:49.821+01:002009-08-24T19:17:49.821+01:00Think we need more "zen" practices.
We ...Think we need more "zen" practices.<br />We spend more time with computers than cars.<br />When you drive a car and it broken on your trip, you'll want to die.<br />Even with computers the angry goes to higher levels too.<br />Apple computers are the best of the planet but eventually the service centers don't make the thing as we expect like car sellers. <br />I suggest to buy on other city or country whatever.alehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01364865205433549125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-63518208274771002902009-08-24T18:41:00.325+01:002009-08-24T18:41:00.325+01:00http://www.singingcatservices.co.uk/
If you want ...http://www.singingcatservices.co.uk/<br /><br />If you want us to take a look at your old Mac, we'll be at your gig in Cumnock in a few weeks. Drop us an email.Anonymoushttp://www.singingcatservices.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-83154054396443155602009-08-24T18:26:16.017+01:002009-08-24T18:26:16.017+01:00Hi Dave,
Have you tried this: www.coreyarnold.or...Hi Dave,<br /><br />Have you tried this: www.coreyarnold.org/ibook/<br /><br />It worked for me, and apple wanted to replace my logic board... (ibook g4 2005)Niknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-14509595933321779932009-08-24T18:25:54.671+01:002009-08-24T18:25:54.671+01:00Ooo, that really, really sucks.
At least it looke...Ooo, that really, really sucks.<br /><br />At least it looked pretty when it died though...<br /><br />I know fancy types have PAs to sort out mini-crises, but it'd be nice if us ordinary folk could just call someone up when things get a bit complicated. They come around, sort out a problem, and leave with everything in its place.<br /><br />Unexpected guest coming around in an hour? No worries! Emergency PA will tidy the flat and sort out appropriate drinks and nibbles.Emmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-26324781762434246722009-08-24T18:20:11.503+01:002009-08-24T18:20:11.503+01:00You think you hate Apple, try living with a Dell l...You think you hate Apple, try living with a Dell laptop that by the way you've only owned for a year but still for some reason refuses to stay on for more than half an hour at a time, either due to overheating or due to Vista hating you so much that it decides to suffer an unspecified fatal error and sit for hours going to blue screen for NO GOOD GODDAMN REASON. And it works perfectly when you wipe the hardrive and 'restore to factory condition'. But only for a week. And it is so generally bollocks that you take a perverse sort of delight in watching it bounce when you accidentally drop it down the stairs because it doesn't make it any worse and <i>damned</i> if the thing don't deserve it. *deep calming breaths*<br /><br />(I want a Macbook, can you tell? I'm jealous even of your crappy old computer.)Sophianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-51966190327026912992009-08-24T17:25:48.912+01:002009-08-24T17:25:48.912+01:00To be fair, try getting a replacement logic/main/m...To be fair, try getting a replacement logic/main/mother-board for anyone else's 4.5 year old computer. There's a couple of family computers that have been written off (and been dismantled to recycle the parts) because it was impossible to find a new board anywhere, at any price. And they certainly didn't have a posh London store where I could drop it off at, I'd have had to sit around waiting for a courier to pick it up.<br /><br />Horrible when it happens, especially at inopportune times, but thankfully you won't have lost (much) data and now you have a shiny new computer. :)kitelesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03421199984790253249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-3816797716333298182009-08-24T17:23:01.361+01:002009-08-24T17:23:01.361+01:00Dave, you did a good thing with the Time Capsule. ...Dave, you did a good thing with the Time Capsule. Imagine if you didn't have that? No one ever thinks backup is worthwhile until too late.<br /><br />Regarding Apple, you can pay for a support contract from some third parties. I know you can get business contracts that cover laptops anywhere in the UK with an 8 hour response time. It also covers returning the laptop to its previous state (i.e. data restore etc.) I'm presuming Dave Gorman is a business as well as a person.... (refrains from making a joke about you being limited! Oops, too late)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00026760700134547385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-84808151263692709522009-08-24T17:13:48.086+01:002009-08-24T17:13:48.086+01:00I think I among others may have responded unfavour...I think I among others may have responded unfavourably to Dave's post. He was upset about his computer, and merely wanted someone to talk to, someone who would listen. It is not unreasonable for him to have posted on a site where generally his fans go, they should be a comforting ear. Dave I'm terribly sorry about your Mac, times like these suck, it's horrible when you feel something catastrophic has happened and you can't see the way out. You're a strong person though and I think you can come through it. Try to relax at some point today, have a drink, call a friend.<br /><br />Stu.Stuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15842271769668809752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-44005921103568572782009-08-24T17:11:54.881+01:002009-08-24T17:11:54.881+01:00It's highly unlikely you'd have been able ...It's highly unlikely you'd have been able to find anyone to replace the logic board in any kind of laptop there-and-then.<br /><br />However, as others have said, any competent repair shop should have been able to remove the hard drive from the Mac, whence you could have attached it via a hard drive enclosure to any other Mac you could beg, steal or borrow while yours was fixed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-5373492771425056512009-08-24T17:01:10.992+01:002009-08-24T17:01:10.992+01:00@Anonymous: I'm not "troll baiting" ...@Anonymous: I'm not "troll baiting" anything and if you think I am then perhaps it's you taking a blip of a rant too seriously rather than the rant itself. <br /><br />I'm just ranting because *today* the failure of an Apple component has cost me dearly. In terms of £ as well as time. I don't have time to do everything I have to do... and instead of having 4 days to do it in, I now have 3.5. <br /><br />And because in these particular circumstances, where time was of such value and importance, it has cost me far more in £s than it should have done.<br /><br />Where I think it is reasonable to feel ire towards Apple is in relation to their closed shop. If it was any other kind of electrical appliance that had failed I could probably have found someone to repair or replace the part this morning. It is Apple's exclusivity that meant that the only timely solution was the most expensive one. I think the world would be a happier one if I had been able to have someone change the logic board for me this morning. That this wasn't possible has forced me into the extravagance of a new computer... which is faintly ridiculous and ire-worthy.Dave Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02260701102207639816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588205362847565197.post-5350112706865795572009-08-24T16:41:41.755+01:002009-08-24T16:41:41.755+01:00Dave, you are being a dick by troll baiting about ...Dave, you are being a dick by troll baiting about Apple.<br /> <br />Apple kit dies no more or less than any other tech. Personally I think 4 years for a laptop is pretty good going for an active traveller such as yourself. <br /><br />All technology fails, it is just a matter of when - something you must realise because you purchased a time capsule to backup with.<br /><br />Buy yourself another Mac, feel good about your purchase and enjoy another few years of Appley goodness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com