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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil    I can still buy VHS tapes. Guess that means people are still using VHS. Guess that means VCRs should still be made…    Is it an amount that...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil  And that's not just Apple fans saying this. Ask anyone and they'll acknowledge that floppies were way out of vogue by '97. Being "out of vogue" is very different from "no...

Quote: Originally Posted by Apple ][  You still use DVD's and buy CD's? Good for you, but most people don't. I read this so often here and I would like to believe it. But then why we have the same big and small shops...

Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX  It doesn't seem to matter what country you choose, you can't buy an iMac online from Apple. It looks like going into an Apple Store or a 3rd party would be the only way to one if...

It looks like your drive may be damaged. Have you tried Disk Utility to see if it can read it? Also, if you have another computer, you can try to read it there. If it is still unaccessible, then there is definitely some kind of damage.

Quote: Originally Posted by nht  I remember when this board would be in a frenzy with even the tiniest Mac speed bump...   Now it's "yawn...iMac?  Whatever". Of course, nowadays people are...

Finally I installed a new hard drive at 7200 rpm, after having cloned on it the content of the MBP. Beach ball was soon back, so it seems that either this is not a hardware problem or, if it is, it goes beyond the hard...

I spoke too soon. It took only a few minutes of use before the MBP starting to behave erratically (and failing again the drive hardware test). So the initial questions still hold.

In the meantime, I did the obvious: I opened the MBP and I took out the hard drive to check the connector. There was dust around, especially under the battery, which I cleaned of course. I pressed the connector to be sure it is firmly...

OK, I have a MBP with a dying hard drive. The precise model is the late 2008 one. Besides the repeated and persistent delays with any HD-related operation and wrong reporting of avaliable free HD room (it dropped suddenly by 10 GB to...