Are Refurb MB's just as good as the brand new machines?

I just purchase a refurb 2.4 MB, and yes I could have saved 300.00 and gotten the 2.0, but I like the backlit keys...
My question is, has anyone ever had any bad experiences with Apple Refurbs?

At work, we've ordered quite a few refurbished Macs to get the previous model so it will work with our current bundle/image of software. I can say, after purchasing 600 original model Macs and 100 refurbished Macs, they refurbished models haven't had any more issues than the original models. I believe that the refurbished models are a good opportunity.
-Doug

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Our HDB tool just stopped connecting to the Azure virtual machine

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Update as promised.
I just went ahead and created a new VM. All is good!!!!
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Where is the advance preferences in the brand new iMovie? it used to be in that button area. i need to do picture in picture!

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IPod 160GB - the good and the bad new

I received my iPod 160GB this morning. Here are some of my first impressions.
The good news:
I was a bit worried about speed issues and/or crashing as posted on this forum, but my iPod seems to work without any major speed issues, and I haven't encountered any crash so-far. The content is about 60GB of music, lots of covers, 2 movies, agenda and contacts. Even cover flow has a very acceptable speed (faster than on my dual G5 PowerMac), though I wonder its suitability with an amount of covers associated with 160GB of music. The only performance issue I encounter when I go back to the main menu, where arbitrary cover art is shown using Ken Burn effects. I guess a bit of caching can solve this issue.
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- Sound quality. A bit more natural and acoustical instead of technical.
- When the screen blanks during playing, it shows a clock, and a battery indicator. When music plays I'd like to see where in the track I am, what number is playing etc., without having to touch the iPod to wake its screen up.
- EU sound limit. With my Sennheiser HD650 and some soft recordings, it is too soft. I hope for a fast update of GoPod, to be able to accomplish normal sound levels.
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- Everywhere album art in the main menu, except for the "Now Playing" menu, which only shows a title.
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- The date is always shown in US format (m/d/y instead of d/m/y).
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Marc

As an audio engineer I must disagree with your conclusions regarding severity of the issue. The variations found (0.1dB) are simply too small to amount to anything significant. 1dB is DEFINED as the smallest volume change that a human can perceive, and 0.1dB is a variation far smaller than batch discrepancies in any group of identical speakers or headphones you care to name.
Furthermore, the so-called “incorrect timing response” is EXACTLY what one SHOULD see given a small change in treble response - this is systems engineering 101, folks. The time and frequency domains are different reflections of the same behavior.
I will add that this “timing response” is far more linear and of a smaller magnitude than any mechanical device (speaker, headphone) you will find on the planet. These mechanical necessities will simply swamp any small variation in the electronics.
As to spatial effects - I will step into deeper waters here and state that any that exist in 2 channel recordings are subject to an awful lot of much larger forces, such as room acoustics, headphone behaviors, and a lot of psychology. Spatial data simply is so poorly represented in 2 channel audio that when it seems to work it is often as not a fluke - the data just isn’t there in a reliable form. When we have recordings that actually represent multi-channel, multi-direction room reflections and multi-channel, multi-direction playback systems we might have something, but not today.
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Brand new machines are not able to boot to Disk or Network

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Hi, are other people still experiencing chipped scuffed iphone 5 brand new just out of box?

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iharoon wrote:
Im writing this review just disappointed in my trust for the company thinking i will let it slide and keep using my chipped phone till a better android phone comes in and this one breaks properly.
This is not a site for reviews, there are dozens of such sites out there... if you want to right a review (you have not do so yet), go there and write one.
iharoon wrote:
Any other people having this issue?
Does it matter? Will that make your issue go away or make you feel better?
Take the device to an Apple store and exchange it or contact Apple Customer support to arrnage an exchange.
iharoon wrote:
I have pictures of the damages along with the imei if anybody wants to see?
We're all users like yourself and frankly I doubt anyone here really cares. Even if they did, all they can do is empathize with you.

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what's interesting tho is that the old battery cycle count was 43 and this one reads 0
It's zero because it's a new battery, and hasn't been through a complete charge cycle yet. The "counter" doesn't use fractions, and doesn't round up. Just like a new baby if you count age in years - they're not one year old until a year from their birth day...
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My T key just got stuck on my brand new Macbook Pro Retina

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Hi
Welcome to the forums, Luckily your mac is new and under warranty, so if its broken return to a mac genius
There is no one from apple on these forums.
http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/geniusbar/

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Try on another computer to help determine if iPod or computer problem.
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Dj Cj wrote:
So I had a 15 MBP (2.4 Ghz) and I just bought a 24" iMac (2.9 Ghz version) I spent all day installing all my software (Adobe Master Collection, Logic Pro, iTunes music) The first time I turned on the machine it started up, but then I tried to navigate somewhere and the computer froze right up..... I held the power button and restarted....
I mainly got this machine to use the Adobe software and Logic Pro..... Now when I went to open up a demo project in Logic, it's giving me an error code "Disk is too slow or System Overload.(-10010)"............... ?????? And the CD drive seems to be making a pretty noticeable loud noise and "clunky" sound.
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Sounds to me like you got a clunker. Take it back to the Apple store, and get it replaced ASAP.
This has nothing to do with Logic... your drive might be all messed up...
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Hello Jpahlphoto!
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