Bought what I thought was clone computer to back up main. Found out it wasn't
I'll try to keep this tiny.
Have MacBook Pro 13", mid-2012 model, 4GB RAM (since today's upgrade, 16GB), 500GB SATA HD
Had HD crash last year, determine not to let it cripple me again. Bought what I thought was an IDENTICAL MODEL from apple.ca's refurbished store -- exactly where I got this one.
Everything in the listing was identical to what it had been with this one. Let's call this one, my original, MBP1, and the new computer I bought MBP2.
When I bought MBP1 from apple.ca's refurbished store, I received one running on Mountain Lion. Hence, I built the whole thing on Mountain Lion.
When I bought MBP2, there was nothing in the listing that said it didn't run Mountain Lion. In fact, as do all the listings, it only said it ran "OS X."
Well, after many hours with Apple, it turns out that this supposed clone of my MBP1 will NOT run Mountain Lion under any circumstances, so that means I can NOT HAVE A CLONE OF THIS COMPUTER.
I went all the way to Apple's engineers with this guy, uploading technical logs from the MBP2 directly to them. All they were able to do was get Mavericks on the computer. Well, I don't want Mavericks, I want Mountain Lion.
So now the MBP2 is useless for my purposes.
I was very pleasant with Apple until this latest fix didn't work and now that I se that they are selling computers that run on "OS X" without specifying WHAT VERSION, I feel I was misled when I bought the computer with the perfectly reasonable assumption that, absent any version of OSX being mentioned in the listing it would be identical to the one I already owned.
At the very least I want a machine in the same cosmetic shape that has the same specs as mine and for them to take back the MBP2.
Seeing as how I was deceived by NOT listing what OS the computer would be shipping with, I believe this is the minimum I deserve.
A final question is, what if I just pulled the drive from MBP1 and swapped it with MBP2? Would MBP2 be forced to run Mountain Lion, or would it just refuse to boot?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)