tcris52 Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 I no sooner arrived here in Khon Kaen than my Macbook's (Intel CPU) hard drive crashed. I sent it to Bangkok and it will take about 3-4 weeks to get it back. I have a bootable backup on an external firewire drive if I had a computer to run it on. If anybody has one I could borrow, rent, etc, I would be very grateful. I don't even need the internal drive to work. The entire boot process is from my external drive. Accessing email is problematic at this time. I hate to post my phone number but I'll take a chance in the hopes that the calls I get are legitimate. If you have one I could use, my number is 087-085-8758. Thanks. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jocsum Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 Have you tried www.khonkaen.com forum section? Nice guys around there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedi Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 There is a Mac shop in Oasis Center third floor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcris52 Posted September 29, 2008 Author Share Posted September 29, 2008 Have you tried www.khonkaen.com forum section? Nice guys around there. I requested membership quite a while ago but it has not been activated. I'll try again when I get more time at a computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tcris52 Posted September 29, 2008 Author Share Posted September 29, 2008 There is a Mac shop in Oasis Center third floor I tried them but they don't have any rentals available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary A Posted October 1, 2008 Share Posted October 1, 2008 I know the Apple fanatics will throw rocks at me but that's just a good reason to use a desktop PC. All the computer shop Somchais are familiar with PC's and can repair them. Living in the boonies and using anything other than a desktop PC is asking for misery. Another example is my Lenovo (IBM) laptop. It started having problems. It is 2 1/2 years old. I might add that I paid a fortune for it. Fortunately it has a 3 year international warranty. The nearest repair center is 150 kilometers away. It was repaired free of charge and it required a new main board. I first took the laptop to my local computer shop and that Somchai looked at it, rolled his eyes, shook his head and shuddered. The classic MAI DAI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedi Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 ... that's just a good reason to use a desktop PC. Gary, you are naturally right. But I use for myself a Mac NoteBook. My daughter has a Desktop PC with a Thai Windows XP. Bought in Khon Kaen, maintenance in Khon Kaen: the real standard Thai thing. Last week my daughter complained: "Papi, my Word does not switch between Thai and English keyboard any more". To make a long storry short: she had 32 botnets, viruses and other malware installed. None of the Anti-malware program i had access to (and I have access to many, because I work for a University in Switzerland) was able to clean the system. Naturally, my daughter and her friends install everything that God forbids: Games from the net, from CDs with unknown origin etc. But that just shows: there are always two sides of a dollar Regards Thedi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary A Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 ... that's just a good reason to use a desktop PC. Gary, you are naturally right. But I use for myself a Mac NoteBook. My daughter has a Desktop PC with a Thai Windows XP. Bought in Khon Kaen, maintenance in Khon Kaen: the real standard Thai thing. Last week my daughter complained: "Papi, my Word does not switch between Thai and English keyboard any more". To make a long storry short: she had 32 botnets, viruses and other malware installed. None of the Anti-malware program i had access to (and I have access to many, because I work for a University in Switzerland) was able to clean the system. Naturally, my daughter and her friends install everything that God forbids: Games from the net, from CDs with unknown origin etc. But that just shows: there are always two sides of a dollar Regards Thedi That's a good point. Most of the crap they find to install wouldn't work with an Apple computer. As far as virus or spyware protection, I have never had a problem on my PC. I use BitDefender that has protection against everything. I think it is called a suite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blakegeee Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 These is nothing special or unique about a Macbook HDD from a PC HDD. They just use a SATA 2.5" HDD like most modern PC laptops. I dont have the pro but I am quite sure its the same as a regular macbook. Mine took about 4 minutes to swap out when I upgraded it. Heres a link to instructions but I know there is a better guide out there but I can't think of it at the moment; http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2119528,00.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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