Comments for What's happening in GPS tracking http://www.gpspolice.net/blog Vehicle tracking news and events Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:02:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 Comment on I loved my MacBook Pro (Part 1) by L_A_G http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/24/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-1/#comment-56 L_A_G Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:25:51 +0000 http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/24/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-1/#comment-56 Rachelle: Time to grow up? Anyway, that certanly sucks. Reminds me what happened to my dads' friends in the early 90s' (in 1991 if I recall right), they were on the road and the car stero broke. No problem, they got a portable CD/radio with quite good speakers, back then it was actually quite expensive. So they stopped at a gas-station, filled the gas tank and paid, while driving away the suddenly felt as if they had for gotten something. Then they realized that they had forgotten the portable stereo on the roof of the car and returned to the gas station, the thing was blown into a milloin bits as it hit the ground. To sum this up, this costed them thier music for the trip and a 7000 finnish mark portable stereo (about 1000 current US $) Rachelle: Time to grow up?

Anyway, that certanly sucks. Reminds me what happened to my dads’ friends in the early 90s’ (in 1991 if I recall right), they were on the road and the car stero broke. No problem, they got a portable CD/radio with quite good speakers, back then it was actually quite expensive. So they stopped at a gas-station, filled the gas tank and paid, while driving away the suddenly felt as if they had for gotten something. Then they realized that they had forgotten the portable stereo on the roof of the car and returned to the gas station, the thing was blown into a milloin bits as it hit the ground. To sum this up, this costed them thier music for the trip and a 7000 finnish mark portable stereo (about 1000 current US $)

]]> Comment on I loved my MacBook Pro (Part 2) by Tristan http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/25/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-2/#comment-39 Tristan Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:34:11 +0000 http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/25/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-2/#comment-39 Hmmmm.... pulling the RAM out while power is running to the board? How'd everything go? Hmmmm…. pulling the RAM out while power is running to the board? How’d everything go?

]]> Comment on I loved my MacBook Pro (Part 2) by Bertolt http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/25/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-2/#comment-38 Bertolt Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:36:37 +0000 http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/25/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-2/#comment-38 What happened to part 3? I want an update! ;-) What happened to part 3? I want an update! ;-)

]]> Comment on I loved my MacBook Pro (Part 1) by Sean http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/24/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-1/#comment-35 Sean Sun, 27 May 2007 17:12:09 +0000 http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/24/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-1/#comment-35 Andy: No, the picture was taken last Thursday, May 24th. Which should make you feel better about wherever you live. Calgary weather is pretty <a href="http://content.calgary.ca/CCA/City+Common/Municipal+Handbook/+Welcome+to+Calgary/Weather+in+Calgary.htm" rel="nofollow">erratic</a>. Toby: It powered up a little. It tried ejecting the CD, and the fans began spinning... But that was it. Andy: No, the picture was taken last Thursday, May 24th. Which should make you feel better about wherever you live. Calgary weather is pretty erratic.

Toby: It powered up a little. It tried ejecting the CD, and the fans began spinning… But that was it.

]]> Comment on I loved my MacBook Pro (Part 2) by Sean http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/25/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-2/#comment-34 Sean Sun, 27 May 2007 15:56:25 +0000 http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/25/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-2/#comment-34 Anonymous: The other one is my brother's. Anonymous: The other one is my brother’s.

]]> Comment on I loved my MacBook Pro (Part 2) by Anonymous http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/25/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-2/#comment-32 Anonymous Sun, 27 May 2007 15:02:13 +0000 http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/25/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-2/#comment-32 You forgot to mention that you have 2 Macbook Pros! You forgot to mention that you have 2 Macbook Pros!

]]> Comment on I loved my MacBook Pro (Part 2) by shadesOgray http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/25/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-2/#comment-31 shadesOgray Sun, 27 May 2007 08:01:02 +0000 http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/25/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-2/#comment-31 Sympathies! You also need to complete the link under "Tomorrow: Post mortem." on p.1. Sympathies!

You also need to complete the link under “Tomorrow: Post mortem.” on p.1.

]]> Comment on I loved my MacBook Pro (Part 1) by Toby http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/24/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-1/#comment-30 Toby Sun, 27 May 2007 07:28:59 +0000 http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/24/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-1/#comment-30 Was it still able to power up? Was it still able to power up?

]]> Comment on I loved my MacBook Pro (Part 2) by Sean http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/25/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-2/#comment-28 Sean Sat, 26 May 2007 14:08:31 +0000 http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/25/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-2/#comment-28 Amoeba and Sam: Yes, I realize AppleCare doesn't cover this sort of thing. I am calling them only because I'm curious how the support call will go. Amoeba and Sam: Yes, I realize AppleCare doesn’t cover this sort of thing. I am calling them only because I’m curious how the support call will go.

]]> Comment on I loved my MacBook Pro (Part 2) by Sam http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/25/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-2/#comment-27 Sam Sat, 26 May 2007 09:32:08 +0000 http://www.gpspolice.net/blog/2007/05/25/i-loved-my-macbook-pro-part-2/#comment-27 Man that sucks. Good luck with this one. You should completely let the computer dry , like totally dry before attempting to power it on, otherwise you risk shorting out the components. Seriously, put it in a dry place for a few weeks. Hopefully you didn't short anything earlier. Leave it unplugged and leave the battery out, let it dry completely until dust from teh snow mud start fluffing off it. You may actually be able to boot it then. Be sure to put the RAM back in, in your video it looked like you had that out. A iBook would boot with no RAM cuz its got onboard RAM, MBPs and PBs on the other hand do not, so no RAM, not booting, and who knows whether yoru speakers working so that may be hard to analyze, but once its dry enough, put the ram in and try starting it up. Might want tp plug a DVI monitor into it as I would be less shocked to see it boot as I woudl be to see the LCD survive that onlslaught. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news here, but AppleCare isnt going to be able to help you with this. Read the AppleCare Protection Plan T&Cs, it doesnt cover accidental or intentional damage, so it would not cover this, which sucks but at the same time Apple would be broke if they covered stuff like accidental damage. With what AppleCare will offer you, costwise it would be better to wait and see what the summer brings as far as new Macs. The other posters comments regarding Home Owners or even Renters insturance is your best bet as far as monetary recovery. Man that sucks. Good luck with this one.

You should completely let the computer dry , like totally dry before attempting to power it on, otherwise you risk shorting out the components. Seriously, put it in a dry place for a few weeks. Hopefully you didn’t short anything earlier. Leave it unplugged and leave the battery out, let it dry completely until dust from teh snow mud start fluffing off it.

You may actually be able to boot it then. Be sure to put the RAM back in, in your video it looked like you had that out. A iBook would boot with no RAM cuz its got onboard RAM, MBPs and PBs on the other hand do not, so no RAM, not booting, and who knows whether yoru speakers working so that may be hard to analyze, but once its dry enough, put the ram in and try starting it up. Might want tp plug a DVI monitor into it as I would be less shocked to see it boot as I woudl be to see the LCD survive that onlslaught.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news here, but AppleCare isnt going to be able to help you with this. Read the AppleCare Protection Plan T&Cs, it doesnt cover accidental or intentional damage, so it would not cover this, which sucks but at the same time Apple would be broke if they covered stuff like accidental damage.

With what AppleCare will offer you, costwise it would be better to wait and see what the summer brings as far as new Macs.

The other posters comments regarding Home Owners or even Renters insturance is your best bet as far as monetary recovery.

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