I already advised you of my opinion yesterday, however I have to say unfortunately this is what happens when you work with Best Buy. This is one of the main reasons why a lot of the retail stores are closing. However, congratulations on the new Mac Mini. I am very excited for you!
http://empoweringtheblind.com Empowering the blind, one step at a time. On Feb 4, 2013, at 4:37 AM, Chris Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I did it! I actually? did it! Just two days ago, on Saturday, I went up to > Best Buy and with a chunk of extra income I had this month, I bit the bullet > and bought me a mac mini! So now I have my 13 inch mid 2010 white macbook, > and I also now have this mini. I am taking the mini back to swap, as Best > Buy messed up though. They gave me an opened box mid 2011 model. They > didn't even tell me it was opened. Imagine my horror when I got home and > tried with its serial number to register it. It told me the purchase date I > entered was not correct. When I called Apple, they told me it had been > purchased by someone else over a year ago. We went and looked in the About > this Mac page and saw it was a mid 2011, not the newest 2012 model. That > really pissed me off. Anyway, I called Best Buy and spoke with the manager. > He was extremely apologetic, and said if I could run it up there, he'd swap > it for no cost for the correct newer 2012 model. I love this system as is, > but it's only got the I5, 2GB ram, where what I wanted was the I5 4GB ram. > NOt only that but I discovered this morning earlier when trying to charge my > IPhone, that one of the USB ports is bad. I'm not very happy about this > transaction, but, here is the bottom line. It's gonna get swapped, and then > I'll use Migration assistance and move all my stuff from the macbook back > over which won't take but maybe an hour or so, so really, I'm honestly not > very concerned as far as losing data. I have this thing right now hooked up > to my 5.1 home theater system via HDMI, high deff, and I gotta tell you, > sitting here now typing this e-mail on the thing… this is amazing! I never > thought Alex could sound so good through a set of surround speakers. I > shutter to think once I get the new system with the 4GB ram how good this > will be. I actually don't even have my windows desktop hooked up any more. > If I absolutely must do windows, I have a Dell Inspiron system I can use in a > pinch, although I'd rather not, if I can help it. LOL! > > Anyway, I am so glad to finally officially be a full mac user! I still find > myself wanting to fall back on Windows, but my guess is now that I don't have > an easy way to do so, in time I'll get more used to things over here. I know > what I'm doing, it's just a bit awkward. > > Anyway, just wanted to share. Hope that was OK. > > Chris Gilland > Founder of CLG Productions > http://www.clgproductions.com > Phone: 803-760-7136 > Toll-free: 1-888-405-3185 Mon-Fri 8A.M-5P.M Eastern Standard Time except > weekends and holidays > > E-mail: ch...@clgproductions.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
