Is Mobile Me Worth the Expense?
This is only my second post here, so please go easy on me!
I just got my new iPhone last week. I signed up for Mobile Me, but I am wondering if it is really worth the expense. Can a few people out there lend their expertise as to why or why not I should go ahead and subscribe when my free trial is over?
Thanks!
You should probably wait to see what Apple say's on Monday. They released a press release stating that "iCloud" - their next generation cloud services offering will be unveiled.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/05/31wwdc.html
How this impacts MobileMe remains to be seen.
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My daughter bought me an iPad 3, when it first came out, for Mother's Day. She was talked into buying the Best Buy Warranty instead of the Apple warranty. For the past 3 months I've been having nothing but trouble with my iPad so my daughter said I needed to hurry to Best Buy before the expensive extended warranty runs out.
I went to the Best Buy on 62nd and Broadway (NYC) and, after waiting and hitting the counter a couple of times, was able to speak to a tech. I use the title tech loosely here.
He first said that my problems were a result of the new software update, then it was too many apps, next it was "Hey, after two year the battery is going to be slow". So, essentially, it will lock up, freeze, shut itself off, need to be charged twice as much as it used to and be unresponsive to my finger tough (as well as my stylus). He himself saw the issue as he would have to swipe a number of times to clear the screens - so he ran the "Geek Squad Triage App". According to my app, the ipad is fine.
So now, after an hour of watching him just move screens and open apps, and putting my entire iPad back to factory default, I was told "Oh well, we can't do anything at all unless we see the issue happen in front of us." "You have to recreate the problem and then we will take it and send it away for repairs."
This was NOT what my daughter was told would happen - she was assured that if there were a problem, and they could not fix it there, they would take the iPad and replace it with a refurbished iPad - which APPLE would have done. They need to do some honest advertising - you will have to bring the iPad to us, we'll stare blankly at it for awhile, we'll reset it, we'll open and close apps and then send you home saying good luck.
I am beyond furious and intend to file complaints with the store, the Geek Squad Co., the BBB and, just to be certain that people are not taken advantage of again - as my daughter was - at every location I can find that asks which Warranty to choose, or allows me to review this warranty.
Shame on you Best Buy and Shame on you Geek Squad - you've taken advantage of a young person, not to mention a wounded veteran, to make a couple of dollars more off of her. She is absolutely heartsick that this happened - and I could not be more angry if I tried.
Up until now I've always went to Best Buy for all of my electronics, my TV, my Computer, my Laptops - but after this I cannot justify going there again.
Stay away from any Extended Warranties or Geek Squad members at Best Buy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Dear Ftrainryder,
I’m sure if I had received such a nice gift, like an iPad with Geek Squad Protection (GSP), I would also be angered after being turned away when trying to receive service. Please pass my apologies onto your daughter if she feels that she was misled when purchasing the GSP for your iPad.
The information she was given about the protection plan is correct. This being said, the Geek Squad agent should have sent your iPad out for service if he was experiencing the same issues as you had described. I am so very sorry that you didn’t receive that option.
The agents are supposed to do what they can to replicate the problem our customers are experiencing with their products before sending anything out. It sounds as though he spent a healthy amount of time troubleshooting with you and testing your device. The Geek Squad app is a good tool that both employees and customers can use to test the widespread functions of our mobile devices. The issues that he spoke of can happen; however, they generally aren’t issues you will always experience after owning a device for an extended period of time.
I would like reach out to the store leadership at the Upper West Side (Store 1448) about your recent visit. As such, I’ll be sending you a private message to get some more details from your interaction with the agent. To check your private messages, click on the envelope in the upper right-hand corner while logged into the forums.
Respectfully,
JD|Social Media Specialist | Best Buy® Corporate
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Is a MacBook Pro w/ Retina display worth the price?
Apple community-
Looking at purchasing portability for school- going to work on an MFA in graphics/web/new media, and need some assistance. I've an iMac from 2007, seems to run flawlessly, but looking at options for taking school with me while at work- I'm currently travelling five different states in my current position. The new MacBook Pro with Retina display looks stunning, albeit expensive, but has many features that worry me.
For instance, everything is completely bolted/soldered/non-upgradeable, so any desire of modification needs to be purchased pre-production, right? Also, the big issue with their PCIe "Flash based" storage... exactly what is this, and why is it so freaking expensive? I've read different reports on Apple using various manufacturers, so not every MacBook as the same storage model, no third party attempts at upgrades, etc.. If I'd like to install numerous, monstrous programs, such as the entire Adobe Creative Suites, 3D Max, Maya, Final Cut, and so forth, I'll need a high capacity memory drive, as I assume most, if not all of these, need a root drive to install, and not simply an external hard drive. I still make CDs/DVDs, so a SuperDrive is another $80.
Chatting with an Apple representative, she stated that there is "only one model that will run my software at peak performance," which was the 15-inch model, starting at $2k; also, my software needed a "dedicated graphics card," I'm not too certain that it needs all that, and a high-end PC laptop could certainly run all of my demands- but let's face it, this is an Apple discussions community, and I'm plain simply accustomed to working on an Apple computer. Plus, I don't really care for Windows 8.
Should I possibly aim to purchase an older model used, something without Retina, but with more storage? Is Retina that big of a deal for a laptop? I also considered the possibility of just toting a Mac Mini with a 13-inch Cintiq tablet; though it does need a constant power supply, it's still quite portable.
Thoughts? Am I just overthinking this? I've been expecting a MacBook to be expensive, but this could be pushing it a bit.
Cheers!guiparent,
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I am going to buy myself a MacBook Pro in the near future and was wondering if the new Retina Display model would be worth the extra cash. I will mostly be doing photo/video/music editing.
if you're not in a big rush - why not hold off until Adobe and Microsoft releases an update to support the Retina Screen.
Don't get me wrong - the Macbook Retina is a good and videos look great - but when it comes to Photoshop, it's a little blurry and the fonts in Excel and Word is pretty blurry too.....I own one....
In any event, if it's something you can live with - then by all means - go for it.....
Otherwise - get the non Retina Macbook Pro - it's cheaper, and it's user upgradeable in both RAM and Hard Drive.
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How to delete the automatically created receipt in the expense report
Hi experts,
I am getting an error "no expense type for estimated costs has been defined. cannot save" while creating a travel request for an employee.
Base on the reply from Raynard which posted on Re: FM for trip exp
It's because "The estimated cost in plan and request are now included into fund management. So if you have active funds management, the entered estimated cost are used to make availability check and commitment. Therefore you must create an expense type in view V_T706B1. Under 'amounts are' you have to choose 'estimated cost, no reimbursement to employee'."
How ever, because the linkage with funds management, I faced the problem and also ckecked out the reason from SAP Help that "After the trip takes place, the user needs to manually delete the automatically created receipt in the expense report."
Anybody can provide the solution how to automatically delete this receipt before user create the expense report??
Thanks
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Check the BADI "TRIP_WEB_CHECK" method "USER_CHECK_GENERAL_DATA".
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I have the imac, ipad 2 and iphone 4 - all are updated to ios 5, lion and have just moved from mobile me to the icloud. I am having no end of problems synching my calenders. Ical on my iMac is perfect however when I sync with my ipad, birthdays and subscriptions appear twice even though they are a single entry in ical. Some events are completely missing on the ipad calendar and since upgrading I cannot even use the ipad calendar to delete events even though I have tried resetting it. In the ICloud calendar there are no birthdays or subscription events showing up at all, most of my events from years ago are missing yet all events from the last year are there.
When I enter an event into my icloud calendar it does not show up on either my ical on the mac or ical on my ipad.
When I enter an event on to my ical from my mac it does not show up in the calendars in either the icloud or the ipad.
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1st Mobile Infrastructure Meet-The-Experts Session on 20-Sep-06
Hello mobile SDN community,
The NetWeaver Mobile development team is now hosting "Mobile
Infrastructure Meet-The-Experts" sessions. The first session with
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mobile application consultants and mobile application developers
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to "RKT Live Expert Sessions" where a specific topic is
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this topic. A "Meet-The-Experts" Session focuses more on
questions than on presentation. Here speakers give a short
introduction to the topic (approx. 15 minutes) on a high level
and then discuss questions brought up by the audience. It is
highly appreciated if you contribute with a number of
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<b>When is the next one scheduled and what is the topic?</b>
The first session is dedicated to the topic "Mobile
Infrastructure - Configuration" (J2EE/ABAP configuration, CCMS,
SSO, security, compression, File/DB persistence and amount of
data, device types, etc.) The speakers are Nameeta S Kustagi,
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at 5:30 pm IST which is 2:00 pm CET/8:00 am EDT/5:00 am PST.
<b>How about the level of questions? Can I ask "stupid" questions?</b>
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or have extensive MI knowledge gained in a MI project. For some topics, basic
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(Link: http://service.sap.com/rkt-mi => Live Expert Sessions).
<b>Can I send my questions beforehand so that the speakers can prepare for it?</b>
You are welcome to include your questions in this forum thread. These questions
will get priority in the session. Please post your questions in the thread until 24 hours
prior to the event. Of course, you can also ask questions during the session.
To do that, please indicate that in the conferencing tool using the "raise hand" button.
<b>How to I dial-in and what conferencing tool is used?</b>
We are using WebEx for transmission of slides, etc. Please note that a small installation
need to be performed at your PC to participate in this session. For the audio a
conference call is used. The details can be found below.
<b>I cannot participate live - will there be a recording of the sessions?</b>
Yes. The download location will be posted in this thread after the session.
<b>Will there be future sessions?</b>
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NW Mobile Administrator.
<b>Dial-In details:</b>
Slides, etc. http://sap.webex.com
Meeting Number: 747408777
Meeting Password: miexperts
Audio:
Access Code: 952750#
Dial-in numbers:
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Denmark 45-3271-4886
Finland 358-969-379-712
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UK 44-208-609-7400
US 1-718-354-1240
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Thinking it might be a licensing issue, I purchased and downloaded a new copy of Office 2011 from Amazon and installed it on my new MBP. Same issue once again.
I tried to remove all copies of Office 2011 from the MBP, but the instructions provided by Microsoft required about three page and seventeen steps and the page was somehow corrupted and would not print in its entirety, nor would it e-mail as anything other than a link to the corrupted page. Not trusting my memory, I decided not to try this without adult supervision.
I used Disk Utility to repair Disk Permissions, as described on an existing thread regarding the same problem, but to no avail.
I removed and later replaced the "Microsoft User Data" folder from the Documents folder, but that was no help.
I have copied the short version of the "Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0," below, for those of you with a deeper knowledge of the internal workings, or non-workings of things Mac when crossed with things MS.
Error Signature:
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS
Date/Time: 2014-08-28 03:31:31 +0000
Application Name: Microsoft Word
Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.Word
Application Signature: MSWD
Application Version: 14.4.3.140616
Crashed Module Name: CoreFoundation
Crashed Module Version: 855.17
Crashed Module Offset: 0x00018442
Blame Module Name: MicrosoftOleo
Blame Module Version: 14.4.3.140616
Blame Module Offset: 0x000017f3
Application LCID: 1033
Extra app info: Reg=en Loc=0x0409
Crashed thread: 0
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http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macword?auth=1
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macword/microsoft-wor d-for-mac-2011-will-not-open-error/ecc42616-6f49-40bb-b8f5-e21c711ea359 -
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Running Server 4, Yosemite 10.10
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I am trying to move from Mobile me to The Cloud which requires version OSX 7.1. My version is 10.6.8 and is fully updated using the instructions provided on how to perform the transfer to the Cloud. What do I do next to get to the 7.1?
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
If your computer meets the minimum requirements, you can purchase and download OS X 10.7 'Lion' from the Mac App Store online. It is also available on a flash drive at about double the price of the download.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
Specs, minimum hardware requirements, and upgrade paths for OS X 10.7 'Lion' are also listed here:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
Even though Lion runs in 2GB system RAM, 4GB or more is highly recommended.
Also be aware that Apple recently announced the next version of OS X, 10.8, called 'Mountain Lion', but no firm date for availability, other than 'coming this summer.'
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hello - i am considering two macbook pros
NEW - http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=ME294LL/A&step=config#
REFURB - http://store.apple.com/us/product/G0ML1LL/A/refurbished-macbook-pro-27ghz-quad-c ore-intel-i7-with-retina-display
The refurb actually has a faster processor and a larger hard drive. From what I understand, the big difference in cost is the new macbook pro contains "512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage" versus the refurb "768GB Flash Storage".
Is the PCIe flash storage really worth the extra cost (and smaller size)?
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Is she wrong - are these actually going to people's homes, being used, then returned and resold?
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Hi,
I'm considering a new iMac 24, but not sure if the speedier on is worth the money.
Currently I use a MacBook Pro 2.2 for Final Cut Express with a 23" cinema (mostly DV, some HD) and that works okay, but won't play back in real time when I composit video.
Anybody know if the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS will help in that area?
Thanks,
KCThe speedier video card is great for 3D stuff, but it won't matter a wink for Final Cut Express, which barely makes use of the video card.
Keep in mind that Final Cut is using the CPU, not video card, to perform the editing, decoding, and encoding of the video. The only time the video card comes into play is during playback of the video, and any of the video options available for iMacs will handle that just fine.
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