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Apple's edu discount now makes no sense at all. Example: I'm thinking about buying Logic Express. I can buy the full version for $200 or the edu version for $180. The full version is upgradeable; the edu version is not. Why on earth would I buy the edu version? Especially since I can now get the full version from Amazon for less than Apple's price for the edu version?

jeff, is this from apple direct or through a campus store? i'll check with them.

thanks,

ddt

ddt, the non-upgradeability is something that's certainly true of the upgrade from Logic Express 7 edu (which I own) to Logic Express 8. The $99 upgrade version of Logic Express 8 won't upgrade an academic license number. I suppose it's always possible that, given the drastic curtailment of Apple's edu software discounts, Apple will change it's policy for the next round of upgrades. I think you'd have to be a fool to rely on it, though.

If you're asking about the pricing, the $179 edu price for Logic Express is from the online Apple edu store. It follows what appears to be the new standard: a ten-percent discount for edu buyers (Leopard is $116, iWork and iLife are $71, Aperture 2 is $179, Logic Studio is $449--all of these are ten-percent discounts). I know that some schools have cut special deals with Apple for lower prices for their students and faculty. IU isn't such a school (our special contract for bargain-basement software prices is with Microsoft).

I'm getting so damn tired of trying to keep this Airport Extreme base station going. I hoped the firmware update would fix it but no dice. It will sometimes go OK for days at a time but today I had to restart it about 8 times. Sometimes the connection light stays solid but other times it's flashing; but it's not connecting. I had to restart it so I could begin this message and had to restart it again to submit it.



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Can anyone tell me what, if anything, the little logo-thing is next to CS's name in this iChat window?


What a journey.

He's connected via Wifi?

Probably his iPhone?

That icon means that someone is logged on via a mobile AIM client (cellphone). Or, at least, it's supposed to mean that. I was tinkering with a cellphone and couldn't get the client to work but, apparently, it thought I was logged in anyway.

Probably 10 times today now.

Bruce, can you use one of the Wifi scanners available for the Mac and see if there are competing Wifi nodes on the same (or close) channels to your unit?

It may help to get away from the same channel set that is in use by your neighbors. It also may help to stop using the 2GHz band completely and use the 5GHz band.

It made a big difference to me to move up to the 5GHz band. None of my neighbors are on it, yet. Probably most of them don't know that 802.11n compatibility mode drops even their high speed traffic into the 2.4GHz mode, where it has to fight it out with all of the other traffic there.

The kids seem to have jammed a dvd (or two?) into the MBP. Any ideas? Disassemble? Trip to Apple Store? Independent Apple dealer? (I already tried ALL the various methods of affecting the eject mechanism to be triggered -- it seems to engage but just whir pathetically. Looks like the actual is deformed somehow -- unknown as to whether that is a caused or effect...)

help

Stan,

I would try the independent first as the one near me fixed the same problem with a previous laptop I had for just their basic service fee (as luckily no internals were damaged) where the Apple Store wanted to charge me the full depot repair price as it was a non-warranty issue.

Daniel

Damned kids. I've had that happen with slot-load iMacs.

This? prolly too big
http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTIESTATIC-TWEEZER-component-extraction-tool-CT-609_W0QQitemZ360005295726QQcmdZViewItem

or....

go crazy...

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=active&q=jammed+dvd+++site%3Adiscussions.apple.com&btnG=Search

What a journey.

Sounds like Apple considers this a "tier 3" repair -- potential cost $974 (wtf?!?!)

Local Apple specialist wants me to "bring it in" -- $105 an hour...

maybe I'll get out the ol'd mini bits: http://www.scribd.com/doc/8237/macbookpro

Anyone venture inside an MBP recently? BTW it still under warranty -- what is the deal with warranty work and me "opening the case"???

Sad, isn't it? When my nephew's hard drive quit, they said $900+ to repair, too.
Do it yourself and don't look back.

What a journey.

You can open the case to replace components and it won't void your warranty. Even if you have to replace the optical drive yourself, I am guessing the part is less than $200 new. Procedure should take about an hour, depending on how long you spend looking for all of those damned screws.

WTF? I have mail.crap set to IMAP. Same with iPhone. So why is it that a new message appears 2-3 minutes earlier on iPhone than on mail.crap? WTF?

IMAP isn't necessarily instantaneous. It still has to poll for messages (unless your server supports IMAP IDLE).

but why is it faster on iphone?

How often do you have Mail.app and the iPhone set to poll for messages? Are they both set to the same interval? Maybe the phone just happens to poll at the right time.