12-17-2010 04:44 PM
I'm helping my sister (remotely; in another state) buy a MacBook Pro 13". She went to Best Buy and the Best Buy salesman told her that an Apple employee came into their store and opened all of their existing units in the cage with iLife '11. Has anyone ever heard of this?
I just want to make sure she didn't just purchase a used laptop. It would be easy for them to claim it was opened because of the update when its actually an open-box return. I asked her to examine the laptop for signs of use - she claims it was still sealed in its plastic bag and that all of the accessories, etc.. were unused. Which also begs the question, how was it updated if the bag around the laptop inside the box was sealed?
Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? I would think Apple would just have you use their Up-to-Date program instead of sending around people to update laptops at retailers.
I'm very concerned! Anyone know for sure Apple employees are going around across the country store by store opening boxes when they have a program in place (Up-to-date) to send you a disc instead??
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12-17-2010 09:58 PM
At my store we have an apple employee that does open the laptops but reseals everything. The laptops have plastic seals that aren't broken in the process, only the box seal is broken, which is reapplied. This is to make sure the customers get the latest software free of charge.
12-18-2010 12:09 AM
I guess that it what happened. Booted up the machine and there was no evidence it'd ever been booted before. Also, iLife '09 was still installed so it was NOT updated as the sales rep said (which is preferable). However, an iLife '11 "drop in disc" was inside the box. I'm assuming it was simply opened to insert this disc and wasn't actually powered on and updated (which is good). Thanks!
12-18-2010 02:36 AM
I don't work in the stores, I work online, so this is just mere conjucture - but that makes sense! Imagine how much time it would take to power on each unit, update the software, and then seal everything back up. The Apple guy would be there forever!
Seriously, have you ever had to update iTunes? Blech.
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12-18-2010 06:47 AM
12-19-2010 01:49 AM
Are you kidding? iTunes is my jukebox, lol. While there are a lot of people who don't like iTunes, I find it to be an awesome program.
12-20-2010 06:23 PM
You have to admit it could stand to loose quit a bit of memory/resource bloat and be redesigned to be far more intuitive.
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