Comments on: Why are there so many Macbook problems lately?

By: S

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:53:42 +0000

Bought a refurbished macbook thinking it would be cheaper and still a quality product, given ’stringent’
QA process they document about on their website, but alas the DVD drive has been replaced and now static is coming from the speakers. Prior to my ownership, the power adapter and speakers were replaced…..leaves me with a dilemma: – return to the darkside (windows) and deal with vista (sigh) or stick with apple, whose OS and interface I really like.

By: Aman

Aman — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:03:54 +0000

I got MacBook on 10April. On 20 April, it screen started flickering and day by day it finished, When I asked Apple Store to fix, they took whole to find solution and fixed. But within 5 days, DVD-Drive started making problem. Finally asked to replace instead of repair, yet waiting for it from last week:-(

By: Leandro Ferreira

Leandro Ferreira — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:02:26 +0000

I’m also having problems with my new Macbook Pro 17″.
I was doing a massive text job in Final Cut, subtitling stuff. When working with the Text Tab in the viewer, blocks of text remain showing on the viewer even after loading a different text there, sometimes I had to close the viewer to get it cleaned up, also reopening Final Cut and restarting the Mac seemed to make things OK for a while, but not long. I reinstalled the system and Final Cut but, one lost night, but the problem persists.

Any help?

By: obi

obi — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:54:35 +0000

German magazine CT makes an annually survey amongst its readers
regarding notebook and service quality. They stated that although
Apple notebooks only have a minor market share in Germany
(behind Acer, FSC and HP) they are number one in the failure statistics
(17%) . Although CT states that the survey is probably not representative,
they suggest that the Apple notebook failure rate remarkably increased after the switch to Intel hardware.

By: jadedcritic

jadedcritic — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:42:48 +0000

@zippi

Oh, we can demand all we like; but the vast majority of companies won’t replace unless they have absolutely no alternative. Europe’s employment and consumer laws are frequently allot more people-friendly then our own.