Quote :

"Apple's most recent problem with screens dying was an Nvidia issue that affected other laptop manufacturers."

It was not the screen dying, it was gpu overheating caused by the use of some cheap ass materials to make the gpu (not sure what part, but I think it was the wafers). Second, even though Nvidia was blamed for this, they are a fabless company and any manufacturing defects shouldn't be their problem. TSMC is the real culprit in the problem, since they are the fab company that Nvidia uses.

1/25/2009 3:08:24 PM

Seriously, you could have bought another drive, dumped your drive's contents, and wiped your drive with Helix or something equally as good or even better in roughly half a day's worth of work.

I hate to inform you, but most tech savvy corporate laptop users do this. I know a lot of engineers that have two separate drives so that when they send their laptops to IT for work, they don't have to deal with any issues.

1/25/2009 5:38:58 PM

^seriously.

1/25/2009 5:57:07 PM

Im a full time student now. I am not buying another drive. If I was still working none of this would be an issue at all.

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"You can't just compress the important stuff into a secure archive with strong encryption?"

This originally was my plan, but they say they MUST have the admin password. If I can get around them requiring the admin password then it woudnt be so much of a big deal, however they can get around that if they really wanted to.

Id rather have them remove the drive and Ill bring the drive back in after the display is done.

My larger problem, mostly philosophical, is that theyd do all of this without question if I gave them 100 bucks for Pro Care. But apparently since Im an average customer, Im not good enough for them to comply with the request and THATS what sincerely pisses me off.



[Edited on January 25, 2009 at 6:23 PM. Reason : .]

1/25/2009 6:07:56 PM

Never argue with idiots. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

1/25/2009 6:47:28 PM

^^So get non-OS encryption application. Encrypt it with a password other than the admin's.

I mean it's fine if you want to waste both of your times over a principle... but I can guarantee who will win this battle every time. And it isn't you. Like it or not, you are just another number, another customer who thinks they are more special than the next guy. If you put an employee in the position of doing what you tell him (right or wrong) or doing what his boss tells him, you aren't getting shit.

1/25/2009 7:10:00 PM

Can you recommend such an application to do that, preferably free?

I was just going to take the whole "documents" folder and just move it to my external drive.

I really dont have time to waste on going back and forth, but Id like to make the issue known enough for someone at Apple to say "hey he's got a point. we should look in to this".

1/25/2009 9:16:27 PM

http://www.truecrypt.org

i use it for everything. financial documents, porn, etc.

1/25/2009 9:40:02 PM

LOL, porn


hahahaha

1/25/2009 9:42:32 PM