A $1000 isn't alot of money to most Mac owners, plus mine scratched because of me, not out of the box like others. I have no issues, just told people to not worry so much...chill bruddah
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A $1000 isn't alot of money to most Mac owners, plus mine scratched because of me, not out of the box like others. I have no issues, just told people to not worry so much...chill bruddah
Haha a thousand dollars isn't a lot?
I agree, most people can easily drop a grand on a computer hut I can't.
I saved for months and months before I was able to buy my laptop. And I was disappointed to see my hard earned investment scratched.
I felt the same way when I scratched my 1920-stamped Luger. Then I realized, a gun is a tool, not just a collectible sculpture.
Your options are:
Put some miles on your tool and expect it to get grubby over the years.
Secure your invaluable art piece in a glass case and never so much as breathe on it.
Your options are:
Put some miles on your tool and expect it to get grubby over the years.
Secure your invaluable art piece in a glass case and never so much as breathe on it.
I chose option 1 with my Aluminum Macbook Pro.
For the White Macbook, "over the years" meant "over the days."
I think this thread ran its course. I'm happy with my mbp and everyone is arguing now.
Mod, please close.
So, some one please tell me they at least improved the design so it doesn't *crack* at the palm rest?
I have a Macbook from 2007 (one of the first if not first Core 2 Duo Macbooks) and the palm rest is cracked on each side. Everyone I know with one of these models has the same issue. I had a friend whose Macbook (same gen as mine) keyboard died, they replaced the top case (with the cracks) along with the keyboard, and the new one cracked.
So please tell me they at least fixed that?
Honestly, I've had Macs since the very first one and I gotta say, it's a tie between my Macbook and a Performa 6100 I had for worst quality Mac I've owned. Actually, my Macbook beats the Performa honestly. All the rest lasted at least 5 years without one problem (my G4 is 10 years old and still works even with original hard drive).
Let's see:
Hard drive died at a year.
Cracks on palm rest after a year
Headphone jack got wonky at least a year ago (I think... part of me thinks it may be the cord but I think that's the part of me in denial cause it acts more like the headphone jack that is the problem)
Fan is breaking (and driving me nuts with its noise)
Mouse button has gotten sticky/touchy (luckily my parents gave me a magic mouse for christmas and this only really affects me when I'm not using it as a desktop).
Yeah, my Performa had:
Weird hardware bug that meant if you typed too fast the computer didn't get all the keystrokes (that I attributed to computer lag until I read about it later)
hard drive died in three years.
CD drive died sometime after three years (it still worked when the hard drive died).
Uh, yeah, I think the Macbook might win crappiest quality Mac I've had.
And yet I love my computer. My first laptop and never going desktop again. This thing has become essential to me and the fact that it is portable has really helped with making it htat much more useful to me.
I have a Macbook from 2007 (one of the first if not first Core 2 Duo Macbooks) and the palm rest is cracked on each side. Everyone I know with one of these models has the same issue. I had a friend whose Macbook (same gen as mine) keyboard died, they replaced the top case (with the cracks) along with the keyboard, and the new one cracked.
So please tell me they at least fixed that?
Honestly, I've had Macs since the very first one and I gotta say, it's a tie between my Macbook and a Performa 6100 I had for worst quality Mac I've owned. Actually, my Macbook beats the Performa honestly. All the rest lasted at least 5 years without one problem (my G4 is 10 years old and still works even with original hard drive).
Let's see:
Hard drive died at a year.
Cracks on palm rest after a year
Headphone jack got wonky at least a year ago (I think... part of me thinks it may be the cord but I think that's the part of me in denial cause it acts more like the headphone jack that is the problem)
Fan is breaking (and driving me nuts with its noise)
Mouse button has gotten sticky/touchy (luckily my parents gave me a magic mouse for christmas and this only really affects me when I'm not using it as a desktop).
Yeah, my Performa had:
Weird hardware bug that meant if you typed too fast the computer didn't get all the keystrokes (that I attributed to computer lag until I read about it later)
hard drive died in three years.
CD drive died sometime after three years (it still worked when the hard drive died).
Uh, yeah, I think the Macbook might win crappiest quality Mac I've had.
And yet I love my computer. My first laptop and never going desktop again. This thing has become essential to me and the fact that it is portable has really helped with making it htat much more useful to me.
Um...it's uniibody...of course it can't crack the way the old one did.
In all honesty, the MacBook was nothing more than an Intel iBook, and I find it cruddy and badly designed. Modern Macs FTW!
The new MacBook is NOT related in any way to the old model, save for color and branding, haha.
In all honesty, the MacBook was nothing more than an Intel iBook, and I find it cruddy and badly designed. Modern Macs FTW!
The new MacBook is NOT related in any way to the old model, save for color and branding, haha.
Aren't most new PC laptops glossy? That explains a lot.Who is the smart person at apple who thought to make the palm rest glossy?
However my late 2006 MacBook is actually becoming glossy on the trackpad, button and palmrests from use.
A $1,000 isn't alot to a MAC OWNER/USER I said. I tend to think Mac owners have higher incomes because of initial cost....I mean you could've gotta a full spec'd awesome laptop with windows 7 for hundreds less and not cared about scratches....just sayin'...no need to debate as you now have a new macbook to play with and enjoy
A $1,000 isn't alot to a MAC OWNER/USER I said. I tend to think Mac owners have higher incomes because of initial cost....I mean you could've gotta a full spec'd awesome laptop with windows 7 for hundreds less and not cared about scratches....just sayin'...no need to debate as you now have a new macbook to play with and enjoy
A few years ago I would have agreed, but nowadays everyone is buying apple. Apple has done well marketing their products.
Really, it isn't any more expensive to buy a mac than a PC. If you figure you'll be buying a PC every 2-3 years, and a mac baring any back luck should last double that, it ends up being about the same. Plus I know that every time I open my macbook its going to work.