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Xpostfacto 3.13/11/2023 ![]() The only hardware problems I’ve ever had with macs (and I’ve purchased or inherited a lot of them over the years, many of which have moved on to new owners and are still working perfectly) have been either due to wear and tear from hard use or defective peripherals (had a crappy firewire drive cook the firewire bus on a mini once, but that turned out to be a known issue with the controller used by that drive). It did need the power board repaired because numerous cases of the plug being yanked on had loosened that port, but I can hardly call that a failure of the computer. My black powerbook ran fine for years, and was second-hand when I got it… sold to buy a used G3/500 12” ibook, which I gave to my wife as her commuter computer about a year ago and is still going strong. I still had a perfectly functional original G3 and a blue and white until I sold them recently. and then this lousy customer service.Īfter all I won’t buy new hardware from Apple again and instead try to build a Hackintosh (hope that works). I had luck that nothing caught fire in my apt. ETA for repair: 3 weeks! For a simple plastic part!!!!), cable of the power adaptor burnt and at first they wanted me to pay for a new one. Then new issues startes with the new Macbook: case broken on the spot, where the display rests on the upper case (common mistake, quote of the repair centre: It happens so often, Apple ran out of spare parts. Looked everywhere, didn’t find anything better in terms of ease of use (best operating system after all). I bought a new Macbook after my iBook died just after 22 months in operation. The company is obviously not good at making lasting products of good quality, nevertheless you buy the next pricey product from just that company? Jason’s current Macbook Pro also has a variety of issues and he ordered a new one just to be sure he wasn’t left stranded. So please share your successful run of Apple machines that have been able to last 3-4 years without breaking down. But it has happened enough times that it seems statistically unlikely. Or if I, and many people I know, have just been incredibly unlucky with Apple gear. Luckily, I also just got myself a new MBP (and the dual-DVI cable is supposed to arrive tomorrow!). Mary’s fairly new Macbook air is making weird noises occasionally. One of my Macbook pros that my brother is using lost its firewire ports and its DVD drive (it’s just 2 years old). Three of my older laptops have had their hard drives fail (with painful data loss in one instance). My old G4 iMac had it’s DVD drive fail on it after two years. I often donate older machines to family, so I get to hear about how they do 2-3-4 years into the process. ![]() This incident made me think about all the Macs I’ve had for the past few years and how they’ve all failed in various ways. When the software fixes don’t work (and they didn’t), the solution is to change the logic board. Apparently, it’s a known issue relating to the 1.5/1.5.1 firmware update. My Macbook Pro 2.2 just decided to kill the display and all I get is blank on boot.
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