I think I screwed up a Mac...

OfaLoaf · 2004-05-16, 08:42 AM

I was at my neighbor's house yesterday to help work on a school project. Nothing was happening at the time, so I decided to show them this (commercial) CD with some music I thought would be good with the project. ITunes didn't read it at all when I put it in. So we popped it out and put it bck in. Still nothing.
So we decided to screw that, but left the CD in there.
Now, still nothing was happening. So I started up the neighbor's copy of Warcraft3. My mom critisized me for doing it, so I closed it. Then, after another period of nothingness, I tried to start up his copy of Halo for Mac. It asked for a CD key I didn't do that.

I then remembered that the CD was still in there. I pressed the "pop out CD" button. Nothing.
Now the mac doesn't read the CD drive in there at all, my CD's still in there, and my neighbor appears to be angry at me for it. What can I do?

Exano · 2004-05-16, 09:23 AM

Sounds like a typical mac to me. Say WTF you doing, get a PC, imo.

Onizuka-GTO · 2004-05-16, 09:56 AM

Mac = Blonde bimbo

All looks and no personality!

Disclaimer: I apologise to all blond psu members! Just a Joke!

Rayder · 2004-05-16, 11:00 AM

Oi, Macs are not good for games, why does he have them on there?

hazzer2007 · 2004-05-16, 09:56 AM

- restart the mac then try and get it out
- restart the mac but try and get the cd out before it finishs loading
- turn it off and SLOWLY pry the cd open

If all fails, send it to get repaired (DONT if the cd is illegle or he has illegle stuff on his computer)

ControlledBurn · 2004-05-16, 11:12 AM

Doesn't sound like you did anything wrong, sounds more like some hardware of theirs is failing, which is by no means your fault.

Fragmatic · 2004-05-16, 11:13 AM

It's a mac, who cares?

Sputty · 2004-05-16, 11:15 AM

Just set fire to it and laugh at him for having a mac.

Firefly · 2004-05-16, 11:29 AM

Mac is the most worthless piece of shit on the planet. People swear by them, and these are the same trendy assholes that wear those funny flattened box-shaped glasses like a slick, chic pair of Buddy Holly BCG's. These are the same artsty-fartsy "intellectuals" that go to coffee houses and thumb their noses at Starbucks but secretly slip in because the local "Java Joe" is temporarily closed because the owners were running a pot garden in back.

They get their Macs as if to say, "Wee look at me! I'm different!" Right along with the other 1 million "different people".

Suckers.

Dharkbayne · 2004-05-16, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by Sputty

Just set fire to it and laugh at him for having a mac.

OfaLoaf · 2004-05-16, 01:54 PM

I can't do that, he's my next-door neighbor... we've known each other for twelve years, and his daughter is the closest thing I have to a girlfriend. And I've played Halo on it before (he's got a huge-ass screen), it works very well.

Hamma · 2004-05-16, 01:56 PM

Mac suck nuts. You will probably have to call out a mac engineer for 400$/hr to do some fancy key combo like APPLE+J+Y+f+BACKSPACE

OfaLoaf · 2004-05-16, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by Hamma

Mac suck nuts. You will probably have to call out a mac engineer for 400$/hr to do some fancy key combo like APPLE+J+Y+f+BACKSPACE

The backspace is called "delete".

EarlyDawn · 2004-05-16, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by Hamma

Mac suck nuts. You will probably have to call out a mac engineer for 400$/hr to do some fancy key combo like APPLE+J+Y+f+BACKSPACE

AztecWarrior · 2004-05-17, 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by Hamma

Mac suck nuts. You will probably have to call out a mac engineer for 400$/hr to do some fancy key combo like APPLE+J+Y+f+BACKSPACE

My Mac experience:

Apples were ok, I though they had a tad less showyness than the PC (Win 95 beats the crap out of Mac OS visually).

Then the iMac came out.

My aunt had an iMac. First of all, it doesn't have enough RAM to display pictures on the internet. Or at least that's my interpretation of my dad's interpretation of what she said, she probably mashed her fingers on the keyboard and hit Occult Clover Leaf + Period + Spacebar + 6 + Number pad 6 + F6 + more random letters, which brought forth Satanic powers which posessed her iMac.

Or something reasonably close to that.

In reality, it seriously cannot handle images on the internet, I don't know if it's the fault of the iMac or that she's running through AOL .0001 Beta. (Actually it's around 6.0). So she asked us to set up the internet on it.

We click on the icon and this dumb-ass presentation begins. It has this retarded flute-like music (some reed instrument) with pictures of colored iMacs in formation on the classic white background and the camera panning and spinning, to make it seem like some sort of witchcraft ritual, or maybe synchronized dance. After a few moments (30 seconds of agony) it switches over to some RETARDED tutorial on what exactly the internet will do for you.

Yes.

It's so user friendly, it TELLS you what the internet is, complete with iMacs dancing to conjure evil...I mean....decorate the presentation.

Al Gore, INVENTOR of the Internet, iis rolling over in his gra...scratch that. He's pissed, and is about to kick Steve Jobs off the Interweb.

So, four options come up. I shit you not, they read (close paraphrasing on the first and second ones

1. I already have an AOL account.
2. I'll set up an AOL account.
3. I'm not ready for the Internet.
4. Tell me more about the Internet.

TELL ME MORE ABOUT THE INTERNET? I'M not READY for the INTERNET?

I forget what happened next. I think maybe we decided to close the retarded presentation and get to work, but we had to go through it again. We begin again with the dancing iMacs, and try to skip through it by hitting our beloved Windows key combinations.

The "Superior Windows User" scanner detects us and WE HAVE AN ERROR. WINDOWS ME IS MORE RELIABLE THAN MAC OS. At this point we go into desperation and actually hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and Alt-Tab, to no effect, of course, because we didn't know that to PROPERLY get the thing to work we had to hit Occult Clover Leaf-Period-Spacebar-6-F6-Num6, then sprinkle a virgin's blood over the monitor.

I think we restarted, shut it off, and told my aunt to get over it.

Another time, my brother turned it on like we told him not to. The thing tries to turn on, he goes crazy, and does something to it, which I didn't see. The computer goes into a coma. The monitor displays nothing, no keys work, but it's on. I think I had to either hit the I/O switch, pull out the cable, turn off the power strip, or some other brute-force way of cutting power to turn it off.

Apple is the devil.