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Hey guys I've been jealously lurking around these forums for a while and am DYING to swtich. I think I can do it but I need some help. First I've got to tell my story(it's long but I really, REALLY need help):
In 2005 I was getting into Video Editing but was always on the road at the time so I needed laptop. I had wanted to switch to Mac back then but being the idiot I am I let a guy at Best Buy talk me into spending $3250cad(2818usd) on an HP laptop! I hate this thing it's a 9 pound brick that gets me 40 minutes or less of battery life and always has problems.
He guy at the store convinced me to get the 3 year warrenty for it and I bought it. Their policy is if it takes them more than 2 months to fix it they'll replace it with something else OR if it breaks down 4 times on the 4th time they'll replace it. MINE HAS BROKEN 3 TIMES. Once it's took them more than 2 months to fix it but I hadn't properly read the policy at that point in time so they never gave me a new machine.
I eventually took some editing classes and fell in LOVE with Final Cut Pro and the Mac OS X and I so badly want to swtich to a mac computer but I don't have any money to do so. And this machine after having been sent back and repaired (for hardware not software it has to be a hardware problem to get exchanged)3 times and still SCREWS UP. It radomly turns itself off for hours for no reason and I can't get it back on for at least an hour.
Heat isn't the problem because it isn't hot and I since it's 9 pounds I never take it off my desk. I've taken it by my local store but they insist nothing is wrong and won't give me a new machine like I deserve(they already owed me a new machine since they took more than 2 months to fix it during the summer and because this is the fourth time it's had a problem) they don't believe me.
The day the Final Cut Pro Studio upgrade price was announced I ran out and bought soundtrack pro and have it to upgrade to the full studio even though I don't even have a mac yet.
Here is where I need help. Can anyone tell me how to break my windows laptop in an undetectible way to the people at the store so I can request a new machine of equal or lesser cost and get an intel iMac or get put on their reserve list for the MacBook Pro(both would be cheaper than I paid for my stupid huge laptop)? I don't have the money for a new computer and already have Soundtrack Pro and NEED to switch if I want to learn and get good enough to become a local freelance editor.
If you guys can help me I'll be forever in your debt.
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