Forums | MacLife

You've got to be kidding me. How do they miss that?

Last edited by Ice Cream Man (2006-11-30 4:47 pm)

yes!!!!!!, of course he complained. Completely aside from the fact that it was for his kid. I as an adult am not interested in that, and wouldn't want it coming on a computer that's supposed to be clean.

Ha ha, that'll be great for PR.

Does Apple not wipe the drives before they ship it off again? I'd be pissed. (and not just because it was porn)

I find this too much to believe.

They were on the DESKTOP! The frickin desktop! Unless the Apple Store guy thought it would be funny, there is no way this actually happened. <red flag 1>

Then, he wipes the hard drive BEFORE dealing with Apple. <red flag 2> Why would you do that?

But maybe he took a screenshot? If so, it isn't too hard to put the images on your desktop, then take a screenshot. <red flag 3> I think he dragged the images, and was planning on showing Apple, but realized they could figure out when they were put there, so he just took a screenshot (if he did) and is hoping to get free iPods, MacBooks, and iCash out of the whole thing.

Seems too easy to be faked, and a simple plot to get millions. (Maybe not millions, but...)

Aqua OS X wrote:

McAddict wrote:

They were on the DESKTOP! The frickin desktop! Unless the Apple Store guy thought it would be funny, there is no way this actually happened. <red flag 1>

I can see you've never worked in IT. Stuff like this happens.

It's not uncommon for people to send-in or return a computer for some sort of critical issue aside from harddrive failure. You replace the component, boot it up, and low and behold -- it looks like someone was playing the skin flute before the machine crapped out.

Hell, this is mild.
I once inherited a computer and a bag of 50 Zip disks from a family member who lived alone and died of a heart attack. Not only was the desktop full of porn, the Zip disks where pack to brim. I doubt that's the way he wanted to go out.

Or who knows, it could've been a prank or some employees screwing around.

I could be a scam, but certainly plausible to sell a refurbished pornintosh.

Your right, I have never worked in IT before, but the way it was described, I imagined the desktop, default aqua blue Tiger, covered, completely, from one corner to the other, across the 13.3 inch display, in icons, which to me, would be very noticeable. Especially if they were named with explicit titles.

If this is how the computer came, I doubt it was from a past user. It was probably some guy thinking it would be funny, but not realizing his mistake.

<sniff>

Smells like bullsmurf.

New or old I ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS reformat a computer when I first get it. Additionally it seems to me if I were buying a refurbished computer from a brick and mortar store, I'd insist on checking it out before I left the store.