Apple Certified Refurbished iMac

I am considering purchasing a Apple Certified Refurbished iMac from the Apple store. The refurbished iMac 20-inch 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo for 1099 sounds like a good deal. If you have purchased a refurbished mac, how satisfied are you with it.

I have a 17-inch iMac (2006 model) that I purchased in 2008 from the refurb page. It's the best Mac I've ever owned. Perfect operationally, and looks 100% new. I also bought two refurb iPods in the last two years, and they worked and looked like new as well.
Actually, there must be quite a few buyers from that page. Whenever the 17-inch 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo model came up, they were sold out within a few hours and were gone again, before I decided to buy. After deciding to buy one, I kept checking until I saw it again a week later and purchased it immediately. $849 was an excellent deal. I wanted the smallest screen, because I connected my existing (exceptional) 1600x1200 display to it as my main monitor. The iMac's screen acts as my second monitor, off to the right. This was my solution for Apple not offering a mid-range (not all-in-one) desktop. It turned out to be an excellent solution (even better than the "missing" mid-range desktop Mac), because I wanted a good second display anyway.

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Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

Apple Certified Refurbished Mini - refurb process

Does anybody know what the Apple Certified Refurbished process consists of? The reason I ask is that I just received an Apple Cert. Refurb. Mac Mini today. It was DOA. I've talked to Apple Care and a replacement will be sent as soon as FedEx scans the return label for the DOA machine. I have to wait for that to arrive in my email but that is a good thing. And I was only on hold for about 15 minutes.
I had my doubts about getting an Apple refurb. but after thinking about it, I thought it would mean almost zero chance of getting a bad Mini. I assumed that an Apple Cert. Refurb. would be thoroughly gone over before being sold. I guess I was wrong. Do they even try to boot these machines that are supposed to be thoroughly gone over? Could something have happened during shipment? I know it will be hard to say exactly what happened but I now have my doubts about trying any Apple refurbs. in the future. And that's too bad because you can save plenty of money on some of them. But all the savings in the world doesn't matter if the computer doesn't work.
Anyone have a similar experience or know what is involved in the refurb. process? I was excited to get my Mini today. Now I have to wait until a replacement arrives. I hate waiting for things like this.
Eric S.

This is a bit like asking if anyone has ever had a problem with a new Ford - there are bound to be those who have had bad experiences just as there are certain to be those who haven't. Given this is a forum where people typically come to report that they have a problem and to ask for help, the predominance of posters are going to reflect on problematic issues rather than that their systems have run perfectly.
My own experiences of Apple refurb products has been generally good, after buying a number of items that way over the last couple of years or so. My only issue has been with a G4 iBook that suffered a display fault, which by it's rather obvious nature when the system was first run, rather suggested it had not been tested before being sold. But as with their new products that arrive faulty, Apple responded promptly and resolved the issue. I must say that I would not hesitate to buy a refurb if there was a product I was interested in at a satisfactory price - my problem is that I don't see much in the way of satisfactory prices in the refurb store - particularly not on minis!

Apple Certified Refurbished Products

Why can´t we have Apple Certified Refurbished Products in Portugal? This time I need a 3rd MacBookPro, for field work.

Tell Apple. No one here can answer for them. http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Apple Certified Refurbished iPod shuffle

I was thinking about buying my girlfriend a Apple Certified Refurbished iPod shuffle. What are the advantages and disadvantages of buys one. And is the 512 a good one to get for the money.

possible blemishes basically other wise they should be good to go now the battery will be a bit used so it won't go through 500 charge cycles instead about 450 at the least. but that's about it but a $20 difference is for you to decide.

Apple Certified Refurbished Mac Book Pro RAM

Hello,
is it possible to buy an Apple Certified Refurbished Mac Book Pro listed with 1GB Ram, with 2GB of RAM?
Thanks for help,
lg
Tina

Sounds like BTO. And ask Apple or look in the MBP forum.
Often times, and no guarantee, the Specials do come with more RAM and could have larger hard drive than what is listed.
Otherwise, might want to just place an order for new and configure yourself, or look at what Crucial, Ramjet etc offer in upgrades which may be easy DIY. There are manuals for all Macs from the "Manuals" link at the top.

FACULTY/STUDENT DISCOUNTS ON Apple certified REFURBISHED Macbook Air, FACULTY/STUDENT DISCOUNTS ON Apple certified REFURBISHED Macbook Air

Do I get an additional discount on the refurbished Macbook Air?

Use this link - it is at the bottom of the Apple Store page.

Apple Certified Refurbished Mini - Update

Since my first topic on this was locked, I will post an update here. This one may get locked as well.
The Mini is working fine now. I'm not the patient sort so I decided to pop the top off the Mini and have a look. It didn't take but a few seconds to see what the problem was. The memory module was not fully seated on one end. I pushed it all the way in until it locked, put the top back on and it booted without incident.
Once it booted up and I created the user account, etc., I was surprised to find that instead of the 40GB drive that was supposed to be in there, it has an 80GB drive. That on top of the savings by getting a refurb. makes this Mini an even better deal.
AndyO - in reply to your post on my previous topic, the refurb price was $70 less than the new ones. I thought a $70 savings (15%) was a pretty good deal myself. And now finding out the the hard drive is twice what it was supposed to be makes it an even better deal.
Eric S.

Eric, the reason I said the refurb minis were not what I would consider good value is that as much as they are certainly cheaper than the new models, they've been listed as having 256Mb RAM, in comparison to the 512Mb RAM now installed as the base config on new systems. Given that for serious work 512Mb RAM is highly desirable, and that it could cost more than the $70 savings to upgrade the RAM in the refurb system.... well, I'm sure you can see the reasoning - and that's without considering the refurb 1.42 units that don't have bluetooth and airport while the new models do.
However, if Apple are supplying the refurb minis with additional RAM (and for those who may be fortunate enough to get an 80Gb drive as you did) the price would certainly make a great deal of sense!

Apple TV Certified Refurbished from Groupon

I bought an Apple TV from Groupon and according to them, it will come sealed in box and is an Apple Certified Refurbished product. Is it safe to assume that this will come with the 1 year warranty like the refurbs that you can buy directly from Apple. Thanks.

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure who the vendor is. I guess I will have to wait until I get the product and look up the serial number. Groupon does have a good return policy so I will just return it if it doesn't come with a warranty. Thanks again.

Refurbished iMac

Hi guys,
are refurbished iMac available only at Apple Store ?
Is there any reseller that sells them on INternet ?
Here in Italy the Apple Store offers only few refurbished products.
Thanks.

Hi,
Your request put me in mind of the commercial for a High Def TV set I saw a few years back. As the guy pointed out all the wonderful features with such raves as, "Look At The Clarity!", "Look At The Color!" I sat in my chair chuckling to myself.
What's so funny? my wife asked.
Well, I replied, given the fact that I am watching the commercial on a 10 year old TV set how exactly does he think I am going to see the clarity and the color?
In other words, any shots you post of your screen problem will be interpreted via someone else's montitor and thus the results won't be dependable.
I know that as someone using their iMac to edit color photos any color cast would be unacceptable to me and I would think Apple would repair or replace yours without question. After all if you wanted a yellowish screen you would have stipulated that when you order your iMac.
All best,
Win

-refurbished iMac has a 20GB partition for Boot Vamp with FAT format. I want to remove this and replace it with a much bigger format with NTFS formats?

My (new to me) Apple refurbished iMac has a 1TB hard drive. Running OS 10.6.7 Snow Leopard. When I tried to install a Boot Camp partition, prior to installling Windows 7- 64 bit, I discovered that the machine had a 20 GB Boot Camp partition, too small for what I need. HOw do I remove the 20 GB partition, and replace it with a 500 GB partition?

I have a number of PC and Mac Pro running Windows Pro, and the OS only needs 80GB partition, plus whatever data etc.
New but used does not sound like Apple Store (refurbished) Specials which would be a 'virgin' OS.
I would reformat and do your own clean install.
There may be something wrong and why it was left that way for one thing. May be a problem with the partition table.
Boot from OS X DVD and you can usually try Disk Utility to "-" remove and then repair and get back, and you of course normally should be able to just use Boot Camp Assistant which is one of its functions - not just to create partition.
For normal resizing, or creating the free space you need has to be in one contiguous chunk and not be fragmented, which is hard to imagine that 500GB is going to be intact.
And whatever you do, rule #1 in the pdf guide: backup before beginning.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp

I want an Apple Certified large capacity drive for 2008 Mac Pro

I have a Mac Pro (early 2008) filled with all Apple Certified hard drives in it.
I want to put the largest available Apple Certified hard disk drive into one of the bays.
Apple won't sell me a drive. They say I have to bring in the computer and have their service people insert a new drive.
So... They have the drives. They just insist that they... not I... do the replacement and charge me for the drive and installation.
Three of the drives were replaced BY ME at various times since I bought the computer in 2008. They sold me those drives over the counter in my local Apple Store a few miles from my house.
How can I duplicate that without losing custody of my computer for days while they put in the new drive?
Suggestions:
Can I take out ALL the drives, leave them home, and bring in the empty chassis to let them put the new drive?
Can I take out one of the "shells" that hold drives, empty it of its current drive, then take them that shell and have them populate it?
What are my options?

Memory lane.... ? "Once upon a time, far and long ago... disk drives and controllers had to be closely mated and sourced..."
SCSI drives and controllers, and later SAS, you could make an argument - maybe - and buying a set of drives, with extra spares for later when one of them failed.
Enter stage right: DIY and CIP
SATA drives are off the shelf. OEM does not matter in a system that does not use specialized hardware RAID
SSD drives can require firmware for compatibility so I could make an argument for an Apple SSD which were offered as BTO and because TRIM on 3rd party devices - because OS X looks for an ID in the product string to say "I am an Apple SKU" or not, and that is the beginning and end of that, and only matters with Yosemite for all intents and purposes.
So then you can read up on StorageReview.com and others and see what the Leaderboard has to say as well as elsewhere as far as what storage devices.
But no matter what, the same age old wisdom of having system drive, data, scratch (for those large database sorts and such or editing in graphics and video), backup (so it is online). System = small and fast, 15K SCSI no longer being king, it is now PCIe-SSDs that offer 10x or more faster, and 0.01 nanoseconds delay in seeks and latency with large queue depth for multiple IO's. The ability to load and read lots of files at 1000MB/sec or faster is perfect for system, and writes of 900MB/sec and above don't hurt.
Then use 4TB drives for data, cheap large and still fast and outstanding.
APPLE HAS NEVER UPDATED THE DRIVE COMPATIBILITY SPECS when new drives become available, leading people to mistakenly think or ask and wonder "can my Mac use drives larger than ______ (where 750GB was the largest capacity and was for some odd reason listed as such) instead of something like "SATA II and higher" Where SATA 3.1 (?) is the current version and is backward compatible.
PCIe devices are often listed as "PCIe 2.x" or 3.0 and my Samsung XP941 with Lycom adapter is nice enough to list and state that while it is PCIe 3.0 compliant it also supports and backward compatible with PCIe 1.0 and above. It won't get the same bandwith/performance in PCIe 1.0 - 2.0 but it works perfectly.
The firmware of controllers determine support, and sometimes though less and almost unheard of with standard "rotating spindle" disk drives (NAS and hardware RAID being the exception that makes the rule).
SSD has changed and evolved faster than anything I have ever seen in computer technology and storage specifically. A year seems like a lifetime in evolution. And yet... my old 2006 (turns 9 in August) was discovered to fully support PCIe-SSD like the latest device in the nMP and the XP941. Amazing but I guess Intel knew something when it designed the SkullTrail systems and EFI 1.0 back in 2005. So the latest SSD tech is supported in a 1,1 (thru 5,1) running Leo or higher.
There have been issues with the size and screw holes of 4-8TB drives (and yes you can use those too). And when Apple created Fusion drives for the iMac and had trouble with Windows Boot Camp the changes in formatting using Disk Utility turned into a Windows XP 32-bit problem formatting drives larger than 2.2TB in Mountain Lion 10.8.4 and above. I am still scratching my head over that one. Even as it was documented and confirmed. (And no it does not reflect on 3rd party or only with drives that are not labelled Apple OEM
Others can probably make a shorter more succinct case without the long history and rambling my prose is given to as I wonder around in the cobwebs

Customizing a refurbished IMac

I was wondering if there was a way to order a refurbished IMac and also order a SSD extra drive---sorta like ordering a new one where you have the option of both drives
If not--how can i get this done--old dog that has no experience
lesnorvell 123

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See if any of these places has both in stock*:
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I am looking to buy a refurbished iMac 27", can anyone tell me any defects or reasons not to?

I am looking to buy an iMac 27" from the refurbished section on the apple webstore due to the considerable amount of money to be saved. Can anyone tell me reasons that I shouldn't or differences I will notice or is it perfectly fine?
Thanks
(Sorry if this post is in the wrong section)

Would you recommend I get a
27" refurbished iMac (specs below) $1,529.00 or a
21.5" regular iMac (specs below) $1,299.00
Refurbished 27-inch iMac 3.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i5
Originally released September 2013
27-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology; 2560-by-1440 resolution
8GB memory
1TB hard drive
NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M graphics processor with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
Built-in FaceTime HD camera
21.5-inch: 2.7GHz
Specifications
2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5
Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz
8GB (two 4GB) memory
1TB hard drive1
Intel Iris Pro graphics
Thanks

Invisible SSD on Certified Refurbished

Last week, I bought a Certified Refurbished MBP15. 2.8GHz i7. 16GB. 1TB. online from Apple and picked it up at my local Apple Store. It booted to Yosemite when I opened it.
After getting about half way set up, but with 630GB still free on the drive, it started crashing to a very dark blue (almost black) screen.
I booted to Recovery, repaired the permissions, verified the drive. Then decided to try reinstalling the OS. Upon launch, the installer could not see the SSD to update. Then back in Recovery, it now couldn’t see anything but the Recovery drive.
Was able to boot back to main, and installed TechToolPro. Ran it. No problems found. Although it did go blue/black screen on the last test, for file structure. Installed the TTP eDrive. Rebooted to that (to see if it could see the main drive) but the boot froze 30% of the way across the visual boot meeter under the apple.
Booted back to Recovery and could see the eDrive and the Main drive. Tried to verify the Main drive, but nothing happened when clicking on verify.
Then tried booting via Internet Recovery. It wouldn’t allow me to log onto my network in that mode. Weird.
I’d love to not have to swap this out for another. If I can get connected to my network for Internet Recovery, should I attempt to reformat the drive and start from scratch? Or for the ~$2800 I just spent, should I just exchange it for another refurb?
I’ve bought refurbs in the past because I’m reasonably technical. I’m not a programmer, but you could describe me as that person everyone calls for help with their Macs. Even when the guys at the local (emphasis on local) Apple Store can’t fix it. I can usually figure out how to get things working. But this one has me stumped.
Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks in advance!

Download the correct installer version on another Mac via the store if you have one. Make a USB installer
Create a bootable installer for OS X Mavericks or Yosemite ...
Or
http://diskmakerx.com/
Or avoid wifi, it can be slow/ flaky for installing (it does download +5GB), ethernet may make work better & faster.
See if it can clean install successfully. If it boots & works 100% hang onto it, if it misbehaves in any way again contact Apple & get it returned. Refurbs have warranty so it's not worth fighting if it isn't stable.

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