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apple store repair and "other" software
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Join Date: May 2004
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my powerbook's trackpad is acting funky, so i'd like to bring it to the apple store for repair. i've got some "unpurchased" programs, though. what should i do?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: New Jersey
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Quite honestly, I doubt that they will even know, much less care, about the software.
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Starting Line: 15" 1.25GHz Powerbook, iPod 5G 60GB, Nikon 3100, AMD 2200 & Intel P3 Winboxes
Honorably Retired: 12" 867MHz Powerbook, Quadra 610, Mac Plus, iPod 3G 20GB
Dishonorabe Discharge:HP AMD 2.4GHz notebook, Toshiba 1.5GHz Intel Pentium-M Centrino notebook
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NY²
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If you are really that worried about them, burn them to dvd/back them up to another drive, delete them off your powerbook, and then put them back on when you get your powerbook back.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Downtown Austin, TX
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Don't worry about it. The worst that will happen is they will have to reformat your drive (highly unlikely), but they will warn you beforehand. Their reasoning is that you will supposedly have the CD/DVDs of everything you've installed.
Apple's policy is to put the operating system that originally shipped on the machine when they restore it.
I answered a call at work once where a customer had received her powerbook from repair. She had Tiger on it, but it was restored with Panther (the original OS). She was pissed, which sort of gave away the fact that her Tiger install wasn't legit. Obviously, if you own Tiger, you can just pop in the DVD and do an upgrade (or reinstall).
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