{"id":460,"date":"2005-08-30T11:03:01","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T01:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2005-08-30T11:03:01","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T01:03:01","slug":"stillhqcom-let-the-apple-service-ranting-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/30\/stillhqcom-let-the-apple-service-ranting-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"stillhq.com – Let the Apple service ranting continue"},"content":{"rendered":"

stillhq.com – Let the Apple service ranting continue<\/a><\/p>\n

(with link to APC mag)<\/p>\n

These seem to be more extreme than what I’ve experienced.<\/p>\n

I should say, that when I have had service done (when there’s not parts coming from sydney or general slowness) it’s been a seemless 1-day affair with the service people not panicing when I say “It doesn’t run MacOS X” when they ask for a password.<\/p>\n

Although why anybody<\/b> would hand over their password to joe-random is beyond me.<\/p>\n

There’s these great things called Boot CDs – it seems as if most apple service technicians know how to use them at least.<\/p>\n

I would much prefer it though if the HD was easy to pop out so I didn’t have to wipe important data before taking it into service (luckily I’ve never had a totally dead machine with important confidential data stuck on it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

stillhq.com – Let the Apple service ranting continue (with link to APC mag) These seem to be more extreme than what I’ve experienced. I should say, that when I have had service done (when there’s not parts coming from sydney … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-7q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":459,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/29\/stillhqcom-did-i-mention-that-apple-service-sucks\/","url_meta":{"origin":460,"position":0},"title":"stillhq.com – Did I mention that Apple service sucks?","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-08-29","format":false,"excerpt":"stillhq.com - Did I mention that Apple service sucks? 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