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October 30, 2006
Eye troubles for Apple users
Some of those previously proud owners of MacBook Pros must be feeling that somebody has actually poked them in the eye with a lit cigarette, what with having the things spontaneously reboot. (Test over here.) There seem to be quite a lot of Mac Book Pro problems that - very strange - don't seem to be reported by the media. They overheat. They won't go to sleep. Optical drives reject disks. The fans are noisy. And on top of that, the abrupt Core 2 Duo upgrade caught loyal consumers on the hop. Although, as you'd expect, they're being terribly philosophical about it all. Possibly because the 39 per cent power increase Apple has been promoting may be a touch misleading.
Oh. And if you've got a 15-inch 1.67GHz G4 PowerBook, you might want to back up your hard drive.
Posted by cw at October 30, 2006 09:05 AM
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Hi Charles
You are mixing the 13" Macbook (shutdown) issues with 15" and 17" Macbook Pro (optical drive) issues. These are 2 very different models.
I picked up a macbook about 6 weeks ago and have not had any of the said problems (yet).
Posted by: Jeff at October 30, 2006 02:18 PM
Sorry. You've got me scratching my head. I can't see how listing problems with various Mac Book Pro and Power Book models is mixing things up. And now Apple says it has a fix for the spontaneous shut-down problem.
Posted by: cw at October 31, 2006 08:28 PM
What's the link for the "fix" that Apple have? Your last post has an empty a tag.
I'm considering switching, so I'm reading all I can on this sort of thing. Vista doesn't excite me too much - OS X might be the go. (A Mac Pro with 2 Core Duo CPUs, 3GB RAM and Windows XP running in Parallels - what could be cooler?)
Posted by: Colin J at November 2, 2006 09:45 AM
I fixed the link. But the this one has more information.
Posted by: cw at November 2, 2006 11:10 AM