In my experience, I love buying from BestBuy. I have seen situations where the computers are opened with the mentioned seals, at least in the cases I have gone through, it tends to happen with very cheap, horrible quality machines that are returned way too often. Don't work there to know for sure, but if I was manager I'd tell my employees to go through all of them and make sure they are in working order before they leave the store.
Nope, they open them so that they can have their "Geek Squad" optimize the machine, they then add the fee for that service onto the invoice. They do this so that they do not have to upsell the service to their customers, it's already included.
I used to work at Circuit City and they would do exactly that. I had customers that wanted a specific model laptop and the only one available was "pre-optimized". They charged an extra $75.00 for the tech to open the box, go through the initial setup prompts and uninstall maybe one or two things. The customers came in looking for a laptop advertised at a specific price and it was my job to tell them that they would have to pay an additional $75.00 on top of that price because all we had left was the "optimized" version.
... Edison didn't just think, "Hey, I could put a filament in a jar and run electricity through it to make it glow" and patent that. He actually did the work to make a light bulb, and it took a lot of trial and error. It was not just a mental process, but a physical process.
Edison did not come up with that idea. He stole most of his "inventions" from other people and claimed them for himself. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/edison/lightbulb.shtml
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and the only reason for that is because it's free. It's certainly not due to quality.
I don't think users are only buying Android phones because they are less expensive (if that's even the case). I bet many of them genuinely enjoy the Android experience.
Good luck getting this addressed, my mid 2009 MBP can't use any SATA-II drives (even though it's a "supported" technology for this model) because of a broken EFI firmware update (1.7) and it's been almost 2 years since they released it without a fix. Apple hasn't released a supported way of rolling the firmware back so I could at least use my "supported" after market hard drive either (even at SATA 1.5 speeds, I'd be happy). Despite threads on apple's forums thousands of posts long with affected customers, Apple still hasn't addressed the problem...
There exists small jumpers on many 3.5" & 2.5" SATA-II drives that will limit the transfer speeds to 150Mbps. You should see if the drive you are trying to install has that option.
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