This is the first thing you should do on your new Mac

[Silly John Fatty]

Download DriveDx and run the app, then should see something like this:

It would be very useful for us all if you did this, because we could see how much usage there has been on a brand new Mac. This picture above is from a refurbished Mac mini. But some refurbished products are said to be brand new. This Mac mini was used for only 15 hours. But who doesn't tell us, that any brand new Mac doesn't have 15 hours of usage already on the clock?

Peeps, it would be awesome if you could run this app as soon as you've gotten your Mac. It would give everyone a technical insight into brand new Apple machines.

Thanks!

 

[Graham Caracas]

To what end? You think they would warranty a device with zero hours of testing?

 

[Silly John Fatty]

To what end? You think they would warranty a device with zero hours of testing?

You think they're all tested to a certain extent?

Would be interesting to see how much/how long. Perhaps I got hold of a brand new Mac through the refurbished program.

 

[Toutou]

No.

 

[avkills]

How about being smart and backing up your data.

 

[Silly John Fatty]

How about being smart and backing up your data.

I think you didn't understand something. This isn't about some type of data loss. It's a software that tells you about what your Mac has already live through. I bought a refurbished Mac from apple and you can see what it has experienced already. But it would be interesting to see what a brand new Mac has "seen" already, what has happened with it before it was sold. This app can do that!

 

[avkills]

I think you didn't understand something. This isn't about some type of data loss. It's a software that tells you about what your Mac has already live through. I bought a refurbished Mac from apple and you can see what it has experienced already. But it would be interesting to see what a brand new Mac has "seen" already, what has happened with it before it was sold. This app can do that!

Sounds bogus to me. You can zero out a hard drive which granted takes forever and re-install the OS that shipped and basically make it does exactly what it would do brand new out of the box from Apple.

 

[Silly John Fatty]

Sounds bogus to me. You can zero out a hard drive which granted takes forever and re-install the OS that shipped and basically make it does exactly what it would do brand new out of the box from Apple.

No! My Mac Mini was refurbished (from Apple) and obviously everything was wiped from it before. Now look at the Screenshot in my first post. Does it look to you as if everything was reset to zero? Nope, because you can't erase those infos. I could make a fresh install and still get those numbers. That's the life of that SSD inside that Mac. You can't undo what it has lived through.

 

[avkills]

No! My Mac Mini was refurbished (from Apple) and obviously everything was wiped from it before. Now look at the Screenshot in my first post. Does it look to you as if everything was reset to zero? Nope, because you can't erase those infos. I could make a fresh install and still get those numbers. That's the life of that SSD inside that Mac. You can't undo what it has lived through.

Your image is not visible to me; so I just went to the website to see what was. Not for me.

 

[AZhappyjack]

Download DriveDx and run the app, then should see something like this:

It would be very useful for us all if you did this, because we could see how much usage there has been on a brand new Mac. This picture above is from a refurbished Mac mini. But some refurbished products are said to be brand new. This Mac mini was used for only 15 hours. But who doesn't tell us, that any brand new Mac doesn't have 15 hours of usage already on the clock?

Peeps, it would be awesome if you could run this app as soon as you've gotten your Mac. It would give everyone a technical insight into brand new Apple machines.

Thanks!

Nothing quite like the sound of FUD.

 

[MacGizmo]

Is there a point to this exercise (other than idle curiosity)?

 

[Silly John Fatty]

Is there a point to this exercise (other than idle curiosity)?

No. But why wouldn't you want to be curious about your new Mac and what condition it is in and what it has lived through?

It would also allow conclusions about refurbished models. Perhaps we would find out that refurbished models are more used than we thought, or less used then we thought, or that they're mostly new devices.

So of course that's all just curiosity.

By the way, I also remember my story with my iPhone 4. I bought it brand new back then (from my phone provider, which you'd assume had it received new from Apple). When I had it sent to repair for something one day, they told me the iPhone inside looked weird and that it had been opened and that there was weird screws used, possibly coming from a hardware store.

Apple didn't want to replace my phone, until they noticed they had forgotten to delete the pictures they had taken with it when it was in the "Apple garage" where they repair those things. So basically I had pictures of the inside of Apple's repair factory, with infos shown on various displays, various people doing their things and how the whole thing looked from the inside.

When they realised that, they gave me a new phone for free I think, or their repaired the old one.

So I wouldn't trust Apple too much. It's a lot of Marketing, but behind it is an ice-cold company. They're the highest rated company in the world, they're not making presents. I've had Apple since the 1990s by the way, just saying.

So I believe it's good to check out your hardware and see what it has lived through and see where it's coming from and what's been done with it. It's no panic thing. Just rational action … and always stay relaxed …