And now what did you do TODAY?

[grawk]

http://www.escortradar.com/

[MexicanDragon]

http://www.valentine1.com/

**BRENT**

[grawk]

The V1 is kinda outdated at this point.

I bought a refurb passport 8500 and have been extremely happy with it. Saved me MANY times

[grawk]

The V1 is kinda outdated at this point.

I bought a refurb passport 8500 and have been extremely happy with it. Saved me MANY times

[Fitz]

Thanks for the tip, it's a little more pricey than I would've hoped, but still far, far less than what the ticket would've been.

[HeadphoneAddict]

I took my daughter's black Macbook to the Genius Bar since it wont power up since we got back from the funeral. It appears the logic board is dead after 3 years and 9 months.

Although a new logic board replacement at the store is over $500 and takes only 2 days to fix, they have a flat rate service for $280 to refurbish the Macbook with a 90 day warrantee. Apparently they send it to "the depot" for a week, where everything that they find that's bad is replaced with new parts. I decided to do that as it seems to be a bargain, especially when they said they are going to replace the swollen battery too (although the battery still lasts 2-3 hours on a charge).

I did consider getting a new Macbook Pro/Air for myself and handing down my 2.5 year old MBP to her, but the ones with the features I want are both $1799 (after 256Gb, Superdrive and 1.8Ghz for MBA). The MBA having been recently upgraded seems like a safer bet, since the MBP are labeled as "early 2011" models and I'd hate to be one cycle behind when they introduce a new one before the end of the year.

I'd like to see more accessories for Thunderbolt, such as a multi-function docking station that isn't a huge monitor, and I'll feel better about the MBA and no firewire or optical digital audio, etc...

Edited August 9, 2011 by HeadphoneAddict

[CarlSeibert]

they have a flat rate service for $280 to refurbish the Macbook with a 90 day warrantee.

That's screamin' deal.

We've had a bunch of MacBookPro motherboards die just beyond our warranty period and they haven't offered anything like that.

[Salt Peanuts]

^ Huh, methinks I should take my MacBook with busted LCD to see if I can get anything out of it.

[HeadphoneAddict]

Yeah, it surprised the heck out of me when they offered the flat rate thing.

I don't know exactly what "the depot" is, but that's where they said they send it for the work. He said they have a guy there that only works on black Macbooks like ours, and they do good work. Tyler might know, since he works at that Apple Store, but I didn't see him there today.

[Smeggy]

Nice deal indeed. I went off to have a chat with the guys at Front Panel Express since they're just down the road from me, having a couple of templates made. Was pretty good to chat again as Paul there hosted the last meet I went to and is into making headphone amps and stuff.

Edited August 9, 2011 by Smeggy

[HeadphoneAddict]

Nice deal indeed. I went off to have a chat with the guys at Front Panel Express since they're just down the road from me, having a couple of templates made. Was pretty good to chat again as Paul there hosted the last meet I went to and is into making headphone amps and stuff.

Cool, I'm pretty happy with the FPE work on my SS eXStatA front and rear panels.

[Hopstretch]

Woke up, logged in, caught up on world news, wished I was back in bed with a pillow over my head. Things are just peachy all over, huh?

[Voltron]

I'm building a bunker.

[blessingx]

I'm building a headache.

[Dreadhead]

^agreed. it was a depressing morning ritual of catching up on the news on my phone before getting out of bed....

[aardvark baguette]

I'm sick of this shit.

[grawk]

At least soros made a billion or more from shorting us treasuries...

[Dreadhead]

^ source? I tried to find one and was unsuccessful.

[grawk]

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fstories%2Fso-who-made-nearly-a-billion-dollars-betting-on-americas-debt-downgrade%2F&h=pAQC_RRCDAQD37WcniiZftlQ7-TW1CW-9qIIhjT3EV5UR8A

Probably not the best source in the world...a link I saw on facebook, obviously.

[Dreadhead]

Yeah it's NOT a good source. Soros is no angel but that's a story that's being deliberately sold as bull shit (until proven). Every single reference to it frames it as a question and then states right at the very end that sources state he wasn't involved but not before talking about how much money he made etc..... fucking BS "push" "journalism" at it's best. Also oddly all sources lie outside the "lamestream" media.

Edited August 9, 2011 by Dreadhead

[grawk]

Good thing soros has you defending him here then...otherwise, people might think he was the kind of person to profit from others misfortune.

[Dreadhead]

I'm not defending him. I think he's a piece of shit personally but that said I think "journalism" like that is just as bad or worse. I was interested in the story if it had been true (and may still be) and wanted a source.

Edited August 9, 2011 by Dreadhead

[grawk]

and I'm perfectly ok with slagging someone like soros based on rumor and innuendo on a web forum...

[Dreadhead]

So noted. I'm not big on slagging anyone based on rumor and innuendo so you feel free to continue and I will feel free to counterpoint you.

[aardvark baguette]

so how'bout that weather we're having....