An incredible stolen Mac story without a final chapter

You do realize that someone who steals is probably a mental midget and doesn't have install disks and doesn't think that someone is tracking his IP. In fact he may not even know what an IP address is.

Well, the other thing people are missing is MobileMe is not the insane $99 Apple charges. Find you a seller with good feedback on eBay and it's $35 for an individual and around $80 for family with shipping. I find that to be entirely worth the cost.

In other related theft issues, my friend had an original white MacBook. Thanks to the cheap plastic his wrist rests were down right nasty (don't want to know what he did with his hands) and he ended up seeing it on eBay listed by a pawn shop. He informed the local LEO's and they coordinated with the locals where the pawn shop was located (one state over) and he got his laptop AND external hdd back. So I think it's a luck of the draw with providing them with information yourself and whether or not they act on it. Gotta get in touch with the right officer.

LOL! This is funny stuff. I'm a Mac user. I'm a PC user. I've used both since I learned BASIC in computer science 20 years ago...but this "we're the intelligent % of the computer community" CRACKS ME UP! I always suspected that certain Mac fanboys/grrls THINK they're smarter than the rest of us...know I have proof!

Yeah, walk in to proprietary shop, plop down two or three times the current market value for a one size fits all, one button does all (admittedly BEAUTIFUL and VERY COOL) machine. Return home, remove machine from box, turn on machine and let it basically do everything for you.

Yeah, that takes brains.

Oh, and when poor design causes bulging capacitors, and your beautiful box won't boot, bring it in to the proprietary shop and have some genius tell you with a straight face that it'll cost $600 for a new "logic" board (including the $85 for them to install the fix to their faulty creation.)

The fact that a large percentage of these "smarter than the rest of us" types reach for their wallets and pay for these ridiculous repairs without blinking suggests they might have more money than brains. (These brainiacs do realize that they can pick up a perfectly operating replacement on craigslist for less than the cost of fixing their old machine--and still have the broken computer to either sell for extra cash or stash somewhere to use as their own personal parts supply (probably a wise idea--although, I wonder how many people who would actually drop 600 bucks for a motherboard...oops, "logic board"...would even know how to swap out a video card (wait--you can't do that with an iMac, they're hard wired to that pesky logic board (not very logical if you ask me...) I mean, if not for the dummy proof ez access flap to install memory, these "smarties" wouldn't even know what it feels like to perform an upgrade themselves.

Please note that I am NOT talking about the few who roam a lot of these forums who do know their way around the inside of a computer; those of you who are smart enough to order your RAM from somewhere other than apple.com and have, on more than one occasion swapped out a SuperDrive for an old combo drive, or "frankensteined" a sort of super computer from a couple of old machines. I'm talking about the computer novices out there, who have to follow the step by step written directions to hook up an external hard drive (!!!) whom I have absolutely no issue with whatsoever--UNTIL they start believing the baloney that Mr. Jobs (who btw I love and respect) and co whisper in their ears about how they're so much smarter than those nerdy PC guys--who, by the way, can actually build a machine from the motherboard up!

So, while I consider myself a real fan of the Mac, I am in no way convinced that I am smarter when working on my Apple machine; on the contrary, I am quite certain that the blazing fast machine I built from scratch, whose benchmarks crush what the best and the brightest on Infinite Loop can whip up, proves otherwise.

I'm just saying...

Not many people turn off automatic login. I'm not one of them, but then again, I'm crazy security conscious.

you need a second mac I think

Yeah, it needs to be a Mac running 10.5+...there's no web access