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LordFoo 06-26-07 07:54 AM


Originally Posted by operator
Eject the bag

Oh yeah. 42x15 is too big :( I want my 16t dura ace back. How's bikechain doing? There was one day I saw only 2 names in the logbook... !

And i've seen like 90% of the peoples bikes i've fixed at bikechain zippin around the city. Hehe!

There have been quiet days and busy days.. toby brought in some sick old frames that are getting all shiny-and-new-ified.. and the reason you've seen 90% of the bikes around the city is that they're all supercycle 1800s! Not sure if you were there on the day where 4 guys all brought theirs in at the same time.

Unfortunately, I haven't been around much due to work and won't be all summer if I get the internship i went out for yesterday.. oh well, I'll look fwd to helping out again in Sept.

somnambulant 06-26-07 08:39 AM

nerdsgirth: someone on your team turned in a 48-minute lap (in lap 8)? Nicely done! Your avg was 59:50, ours was 1:13:37. :P

I did a 1:03:07 and a 1:09:35 (including a couple minutes to strip off some layers and disconnect my light part way through).

cavernmech: looks like they actually subtracted your sleep time when you did a lap right after me. Someone else did our last lap, right? Who was that?

http://www.chicoracing.com/html/inde...rticle&sid=185

ronin2046 06-26-07 08:44 AM


Originally Posted by cavernmech
Filbert thighs shurely.
So myself and my better half decided to take the plunge and bought a 20" I-Mac. I of course was naive enough to think that Mac=no hassles. After roughly 5 hours of use discs won't eject and the browser was doing all kinds of weird things. T.J. the Mac master came by last night to help remedy these problems. After an hour or so of tinkering and messing about with it all seemed fine. Of course 30 minutes after T.J. left the &%$*#$%* thing crashed on me AGAIN with the screen going completely blank. I either got a lemon, am absolutely terrible with anything computer like or just have bad luck. Back to the store with it today. Is it too much to ask that a brand new $2000 Mac operates the way it should?

Should have bought the iMac from me... I would have put a "no lemon" charm on it. ;)

Where did you buy it from?

ronin2046 06-26-07 08:48 AM


Originally Posted by SamHouston
must be a lemon, we gots a 20" imac and it's been hassle free except for a short episode with Parallels, which we decided sucked and don't use now. Thought it'd be neato to run Windows in a window for our shipping software while remaining OSX for all other things, but Parallels fux chit up, and switching from OSX to XP takes about 4 secs less with bootcamp as it does with parallels. So we run XP for shipping and game playing, OSX for everything else = virii free computing.

whatever you do, be sure to ditch that one button mouse with the grippy side buttons, as a former PC lifer person I have never been able to come to terms with mac mice and trying to use them deteriorates a bodies quality of life. I need 2-3 buttons and a wheel, sure it ain't as pretty but it works.

Make the imac work and you'll be better off for it, comparably it is hassle free computating, and prettier, quieter et al

Parallels works excellent for me. Of course, you need to keep downloading new versions, as they keep refining the software. Coherence mode is amazing! Plus Parallels utilizes my Boot Camp Windows partition.

You do need, however, at least 2GB of RAM, to run both OS'es comfortably.

YMMV

cavernmech 06-26-07 09:15 AM


Originally Posted by ronin2046
Should have bought the iMac from me... I would have put a "no lemon" charm on it. ;)

Where did you buy it from?

We got a nice deal and no interest for 6 months financing also. Carbon Computing....Mindy wanted to stay close to home....in retrospect prolly a good idea.

somnambulant 06-26-07 09:44 AM

I just realized that Ronin's sig gif has the NBC logo in the corner. I guess that must have been a blooper show as I doubt they were showing track racing. :)

cavernmech 06-26-07 09:59 AM

So Mindy took the I-mac back to the store and got a condescending "well it is used now" comment when she asked to return it. They will not replace it. They will do their "tests" and try to figure out the problem but other than that if we want them to take it back we have to pay 20% restock fee. I am officially PISSED!!
Ready to go all Bruce Banner on their asses!

operator 06-26-07 10:48 AM

Carbon computing? And they call themselves an authorized reseller? Apples RMA and warranty service is supposed to be very good - or so my friend says - he works at an RMA facility.

nerdsgirth 06-26-07 11:01 AM


Originally Posted by somnambulant
nerdsgirth: someone on your team turned in a 48-minute lap (in lap 8)? Nicely done! Your avg was 59:50, ours was 1:13:37. :P

I did a 1:03:07 and a 1:09:35 (including a couple minutes to strip off some layers and disconnect my light part way through).

cavernmech: looks like they actually subtracted your sleep time when you did a lap right after me. Someone else did our last lap, right? Who was that?

http://www.chicoracing.com/html/inde...rticle&sid=185

Yeah that is our ringer Adam Wade. He hadn't touched a mtbike this year until the race. He borrowed a bike because he doesn't own one! Massive roadie. Note the team uniform from two years ago. He came in 2nd in the first lap that year. He didn't get to Albion till lap 8 this year because of work. Good times!
http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/ pho...57601_3872.jpg

jeremywhitehorn 06-26-07 12:04 PM


Originally Posted by cavernmech
So Mindy took the I-mac back to the store and got a condescending "well it is used now" comment when she asked to return it. They will not replace it. They will do their "tests" and try to figure out the problem but other than that if we want them to take it back we have to pay 20% restock fee. I am officially PISSED!!
Ready to go all Bruce Banner on their asses!

years of working retail has taught me that you just have to keep on complaining. first talk to the top manager at the store and if that fails let me know if you would like help with a tersely written letter. never fails. no way should you be paying a restocking fee on something that didn't work in the first place.

iherald 06-26-07 12:18 PM


Originally Posted by cavernmech
So Mindy took the I-mac back to the store and got a condescending "well it is used now" comment when she asked to return it. They will not replace it. They will do their "tests" and try to figure out the problem but other than that if we want them to take it back we have to pay 20% restock fee. I am officially PISSED!!
Ready to go all Bruce Banner on their asses!

Call 1800 My Apple and get an RMA number from them. If you walk into a store with apple already approving a return, you'll do better.

That said, ultimately, they'll likely try to fix it. And although it sucks, it's reasonable for them to do that.

somnambulant 06-26-07 12:23 PM


Originally Posted by iherald
That said, ultimately, they'll likely try to fix it. And although it sucks, it's reasonable for them to do that.

It could be something as simple as a stick of ram not being seated perfectly. You never know. I assume Mindy left it with the service people there.

TRaffic Jammer 06-26-07 12:27 PM

guys I don't think this is reasonable at all..... if it's a ram issue they should have looked at it immediately!!!
This couple hasn't enjoyed their purchase. The box doesn't work, it's not we've been using it for a few weeks .... it flat out never has worked like it should. New box time...you figure this one out. If some sales rep told me I have to wait potentially upto a month while they out my warranty trying to figure out what's wrong with a box a that has NEVER worked correctly for ANY extended period of time..I'd lose my mind.

iherald 06-26-07 12:34 PM


Originally Posted by TRaffic Jammer
guys I don't think this is reasonable at all..... if it's a ram issue they should have looked at it immediately!!!
This couple hasn't enjoyed their purchase. The box doesn't work, it's not we've been using it for a few weeks .... it flat out never has worked like it should. New box time...you figure this one out.

I agree that this is the best solution, but the problem is that it's not DOA [which according to Apple basically means that it doesn't turn on]. As such Apple won't give Carbon a new computer to replace the one they would give Keith, which would mean they would be stuck with a 'used' machine that they fixed. As such, since the warranty is merely that they will fix any problems, that's all they are likely to do.

It's not to say that we all wouldn't like Keith to have a new iMac; merely that I can understand why it might not happen.

TRaffic Jammer 06-26-07 12:54 PM

I totally get what your sayin' from a supply chain perspective, but as MACS get bigger in popularity and they make more and more of them, these issues are going to increase. If they want to take market share from WINDOWS, they need to stop acting like every piece of hardware could bankrupt the company or retailer. The customer is King, not the iMac.

iherald 06-26-07 12:58 PM


Originally Posted by TRaffic Jammer
The customer is King, not the iMac.

The shareholder is king! As Gordon Gecko is famous for saying "greed is good".

But, I think we all agree that we hope Keith gets the issue resolved so there are two more satisfied mac users out there.

TRaffic Jammer 06-26-07 01:04 PM

:lol: true enough... I just hope Keith isn't dangling someone six inches off the ground.

iherald 06-26-07 01:08 PM


Originally Posted by TRaffic Jammer
:lol: true enough... I just hope Keith isn't dangling someone six inches off the ground.

I think the best way to get results is to pull a Suge Knight. Grabbing Vanilla Ice by the ankles and hanging him over a balcony until he signed over all rights to Ice Ice Baby!

duppy.conqueror 06-26-07 01:20 PM


Originally Posted by iherald
I think the best way to get results is to pull a Suge Knight. Grabbing Vanilla Ice by the ankles and hanging him over a balcony until he signed over all rights to Ice Ice Baby!

:lol:

somnambulant 06-26-07 01:55 PM

hahaha.. indeed!

edit: man.. I was going to go for a spin later to stretch the old legs, but it's currently sitting at 34 with a 41 humidex.

duppy.conqueror 06-26-07 02:20 PM


Originally Posted by somnambulant
hahaha.. indeed!

http://icanhascheezburger.files.word...not-amused.jpg

cavernmech 06-26-07 02:26 PM

I will be going in there and talking to the manager directly. My big concerns are firstly that they blew Mindy off and didn't really offer much of an explanation other than "we will try to fix it" I mean the thing has been on all of 5 hours...surely then could do a bit better from a customer service perspective. Her almost in tears on the street outside, hysterical that we just spent more $ on any other purchase we have made in the last 4 years, because some dip$hit salesman couldn't take the time to assauge her fears is NOT cool with me. Secondly I fail to understand how they can dismiss any request for compensation without even being aware what the problem is. If they at least looked at it first and came to some conclusion as to the problem, then informed us as to the remedy I would feel a little better about all this. Good thing we bought the Apple Care for Dogs sake!

iherald 06-26-07 02:36 PM

Keith, you might want to try 1800 My Apple. Just to keep the pressure on. They'll likely want you to be in front of the machine, but you can just make a complaint about their authorized dealer.

cavit8 06-26-07 03:24 PM


Originally Posted by cavernmech
I will be going in there and talking to the manager directly. My big concerns are firstly that they blew Mindy off and didn't really offer much of an explanation other than "we will try to fix it" I mean the thing has been on all of 5 hours...surely then could do a bit better from a customer service perspective. Her almost in tears on the street outside, hysterical that we just spent more $ on any other purchase we have made in the last 4 years, because some dip$hit salesman couldn't take the time to assauge her fears is NOT cool with me. Secondly I fail to understand how they can dismiss any request for compensation without even being aware what the problem is. If they at least looked at it first and came to some conclusion as to the problem, then informed us as to the remedy I would feel a little better about all this. Good thing we bought the Apple Care for Dogs sake!

I'd hate to ascribe this to a gender thing, but it's possible. Present company excepted, I've found most computer store guys are pretty much at the bottom of the evolutionary totem pole when it comes to service or general social skills. Keep at 'em and do the backup with big brothers 1800 Apple thing.

duppy.conqueror 06-26-07 04:25 PM

failing that send a ****ing molotov cocktail or 3 thru the front window...then call applecare and deal directly ;)

LordFoo 06-26-07 04:45 PM

Update on exploding stuff!

Looks like the demolition is tentatively tomorrow morning at some time between 8-10, weather dependant.. anyone going to toss the dice on showing up this time?

operator 06-26-07 05:39 PM


Originally Posted by LordFoo
Update on exploding stuff!

Looks like the demolition is tentatively tomorrow morning at some time between 8-10, weather dependant.. anyone going to toss the dice on showing up this time?

Yah. Time? Meet? Where?

somnambulant 06-26-07 05:40 PM


Originally Posted by cavit8
I'd hate to ascribe this to a gender thing, but it's possible. Present company excepted, I've found most computer store guys are pretty much at the bottom of the evolutionary totem pole when it comes to service or general social skills. Keep at 'em and do the backup with big brothers 1800 Apple thing.

Mosdef. Particularly ones of the retail variety, present Ronins excepted. :)

operator 06-26-07 05:44 PM


Originally Posted by duppy.conqueror

+lolcats

I_bRAD 06-26-07 05:46 PM


Originally Posted by LordFoo
Update on exploding stuff!

Looks like the demolition is tentatively tomorrow morning at some time between 8-10, weather dependant.. anyone going to toss the dice on showing up this time?

I'm out this time around. Gotta get a couple of the tougher tune-ups done before the heat starts to melt my brain.


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