Got Mac mini from local school district as surplus. Can't use it. What can I do?

[cammykool]

Oops!

In the future, be afraid when someone tries to give you something that they do not own. Do you understand how your belief that your teacher was "told he could do whatever he wanted with it" is incompatible with the fact that he ultimately "said he made a mistake and needed it back". Your teacher may have claimed that he was told that but I am skeptical, aren't you?

Although you still think that your teacher "got" the computer from the district you are mistaken. The machine was possibly assigned to a computer lab. It could have been assigned to the teacher. The point is that that school district IT department did not give the computer away!

Your teacher set you up! Big Time! This is the kind of misunderstanding that made Jameis Winston notorious for a goofy crab leg caper.

Thanks for returning to explain. Ray ought to be satisfied now.

you know a setup wouldn't be surprising for whatever reason he was pretty upset with me a few days before to be honest i didn't know this thread exploded as it did. i only saw the first few posts before he told me he needed it back i completely forgot about this place until i got a PowerBook and decided to see what others were doing with them. i was kinda embarrased for leaving everyone hanging. Sorry about that...
i had heard murmurs that the district went on an all out manhunt for that mac assuming after the IT guy saw this post that ended with my instructor who eather laughed manically or had a "Oh crap!" moment. i felty it was a bit fishy this was a nice clean modern mac. was even upgraded to 8GB OWC ram probably should have swung by the School IT ladys office and checked but i was naive (and pretty excited) oh well it is in the past and we can look back and laugh at thjis whole thing

 

[Celerondon]

Hey cammycool, they sometimes say "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" but they are often wrong, aren't they?

Don't worry about this thread. You aren't the first OP to leave a thread before it's dead and you won't be the last either.

Welcome Back!

 

[grcar]

take it to genius bar

The simplest thing is to make an appointment at the genius bar of you local Apple store. You have to do this on line and they do not make it easy unless you have a iphone but you can do it from the web. Apple will check out any mac free of charge. Tell them how you got the machine and you just want a clean install of the operating system. It takes only a minute for them and you will have a new-out-of-box mac.

 

[hallux]

The simplest thing is to make an appointment at the genius bar of you local Apple store. You have to do this on line and they do not make it easy unless you have a iphone but you can do it from the web. Apple will check out any mac free of charge. Tell them how you got the machine and you just want a clean install of the operating system. It takes only a minute for them and you will have a new-out-of-box mac.

Read the rest of the thread, he resolved this...