My £350 Dell with silver effect plastic is 3 years old and still going strong. Used every day and NO sign of wear at all on any keys from anodization or any other ization...if I had paid £1000+ for a laptop and had these wear marks I would be very very annoyed.
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Anodization wearing off. Im done with apple
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That's not the issue.
If you bought a Mercedes and the paint started to chip off, I'm sure you'd just let it go right? I mean you paid 2x as much as other cars which serve the same purpose, you're telling me you wouldn't be pissed?
If I paid 2-3x as much for a computer, I'd want it to stay as advertised atleast during it's warranty period.
After using apple products myself (iphone and MBP 13) i have come to the conclusion that the products, though eye catching, are of mediocre quality, and Apple service is possibly one of the worst.
Sad to say that the iPhone 32gb GS and MBP13 were my first and last Apple purchases.
There is a reason Apple's PC market share is stuck at 5 some odd% for the last God k nows how many years.
The only reason anyone is throwing a fit against the OP is because he said "I am done with Apple". Some people take it so personally if someone insults their "brand" and just can't let it go and allow someone to be upset about their personal issue.
I LOVE OSX and much prefer it to Windows without a doubt since the switch, but I find Apple's hardware quality no better esp given the price...and my service experience (with two brand new products mind you) has been abysmal...but I am sure someone will tell me how wrong I am.
I LOVE OSX and much prefer it to Windows without a doubt since the switch, but I find Apple's hardware quality no better esp given the price...and my service experience (with two brand new products mind you) has been abysmal...but I am sure someone will tell me how wrong I am.
people that post threads with "im done with apple" are just posting to get people to argue against it,
the fact is no one cares if the op's done with apple , dont post it , good riddin's
because chipping paint is the same as paint wearing off?
thank god you wont be buying any more apple products.
you should probably rethink your post.
Your "facts" are wrong...I care. I understand the OPs frustration...but you will dimiss my opinion as invalid as you would anyone who disagreed with you.
If you didn't care you wouldn't take so much time to reply so emotionally.
The Mona Lisa isn't being rubbed by thumbs eight hours a day.
Anodizing is a thin, porous layer of etched aluminum oxide (aka sapphire). It's very hard and durable, but as others have posted, a given individual's particular sweat/salt/oil/etc output, plus the unique mechanics of how they hold and move their hands, may result in Computer A from exhibiting more or less abrasion than someone else's computer.
There seems to be no perfect case material. My Thinkpads with their plastic bodies have all cracked, every one of them, and the plastic is burnished where my fingers and palm touch it, and the keyboard letters last maybe a year in my usage. My 3+ year-old MacBook Pro still looks like new, but yours doesn't. Shrug. My wife's 5+ year-old Powerbook's aluminum case (identical to yours and mine) got a nasty dent in it from stupidly inserting it into the same briefcase pocket as the power supply. One son's 6-year-old Powerbook looks factory-fresh; the other's palmrest is pocked by his wristwatch or something.
I wonder how the titanium Powerbooks held up. I'd expect Ti to scratch more than anodized Al...
Face it, until some manufacturer figures out how to carve a laptop out of solid diamond, there will be compromises. The current Macs' machined/anodized Al would seem to be the best current configuration, and are less dent-able than the stamped shells of your Macbook and mine. (I'm seeing a whole lot of shiny plastic-bodied laptops in the stores lately; those things are gonna look like hell in a few months.)
Meanwhile, I'd regard your rub-mark as a badge of honor, as I do my worn-out Thinkpad keyboards. It says we actually use our computers.
emotion?
i think not, i am not disagreeing with anyone...YOU ARE
i have nothing against the wearing, i think its petty to complain about a 2 year old product wearing out, regardless , its the fact that another thread had to be made about it considering there is one already,
just so you know, if you had a problem, i would still help you
life is to short....
Go back and look at your post in all caps screaming because someone disagrees with you and doesn't accept your word as truth.
You chose to come in and post repeatedly here...you could have ignored it...yet you felt it was more important to tell the OP he is WRONG for being upset.
Double tap....dang.
And if you are so helpful go in the OSX forum and help me figure out what the stupid PDF left over is.
And if you are so helpful go in the OSX forum and help me figure out what the stupid PDF left over is.
caps are not screaming(at least not ment to be by my standards)
they were there to make you read at least that part of my sentence.
What an over-reaction!
Done with Apple?! Because of this?
Blaming the Chinese for manufacturing problems?
First, I would love to live in your world of perfection. Unfortunately, I don't, and any consumer item - just like jeans, or a T-shirt- wears with use.
You may treat your laptop like gold, however if you masturbate once a day in front of your laptop, I'm pretty sure some chemical reactions are going to occur! clearly, you're a good shooter!!!
Second, why blame the Chinese? Of course the Chinese make poor-quality products. They're a newly developing country. They also already make superb quality products - in twenty years' time, people will be paying a premium for products (and likely brand names) made in China.
You're too quick to connect your independent variable (made in China) to your dependent variable (anodization failure) without considering potential intervening variables (e.g. wank over your laptop).
i've read posts on here for the past four years- yours is the first I've felt inclined to comment on!!
Done with Apple?! Because of this?
Blaming the Chinese for manufacturing problems?
First, I would love to live in your world of perfection. Unfortunately, I don't, and any consumer item - just like jeans, or a T-shirt- wears with use.
You may treat your laptop like gold, however if you masturbate once a day in front of your laptop, I'm pretty sure some chemical reactions are going to occur! clearly, you're a good shooter!!!
Second, why blame the Chinese? Of course the Chinese make poor-quality products. They're a newly developing country. They also already make superb quality products - in twenty years' time, people will be paying a premium for products (and likely brand names) made in China.
You're too quick to connect your independent variable (made in China) to your dependent variable (anodization failure) without considering potential intervening variables (e.g. wank over your laptop).
i've read posts on here for the past four years- yours is the first I've felt inclined to comment on!!
Anyone who just posted "clearly, you're a good shooter!!!" in the context you did should maybe reconsider posting about being shot-at-dawn.
And I agree with the others that your post was waaay over the top nasty. Chill, dude.
(BTW, I initially read your screen name as "ass-itis" and thought, oh so that's why he's so cranky...)
"done with Apple" Where you gonna go? I peeled the "made for Windows" (or whatever it said) sticker off a Dell laptop at work & can still see the outline of the sticker as the longer exposed surrounding plastic was discolored, not to mention some pads fell off & the entire bottom is covered in text labels that are scratched up & wearing off. I might add, what an ugly hunk of plastic compared to a Mac laptop!
Where you gonna go? I peeled the "made for Windows" (or whatever it said) sticker off a Dell laptop at work & can still see the outline of the sticker as the longer exposed surrounding plastic was discolored, not to mention some pads fell off & the entire bottom is covered in text labels that are scratched up & wearing off. I might add, what an ugly hunk of plastic compared to a Mac laptop!
Dear OP
Get a new top case or have AppleCare get you a new top case and end of subject.
I've done this countless times with my former powerbooks, especially the notorious Titanium Powerbook.
All you have is a top case cosmetic problem. Tell Apple you'll be happy to pay for the part if they pay for the labor, it bothers you that much.
Sweat, salt in the sweat and other chemicals wreak havoc on metals and other anodized metal products.
Get yourself an iSkin for your keyboard and some sort of plastic covering for your trackpad in the future.
Get a new top case or have AppleCare get you a new top case and end of subject.
I've done this countless times with my former powerbooks, especially the notorious Titanium Powerbook.
All you have is a top case cosmetic problem. Tell Apple you'll be happy to pay for the part if they pay for the labor, it bothers you that much.
Sweat, salt in the sweat and other chemicals wreak havoc on metals and other anodized metal products.
Get yourself an iSkin for your keyboard and some sort of plastic covering for your trackpad in the future.
Just curious but is there any company in the history of all companies that didnt have "the singular goal of profit in the end"?
Now, I don't mean this as a slam against the original poster - I've never met the person. But I used to work with an individual who essentially sweated acid. Every single notebook we gave her came back with strong discolouring on the palm rest. One Sony Vaio in particular showed actual imprints of her palms.
She was extremely careful with her computers, but it didn't matter. The pH of her sweat was so acidic that there was nothing that could be done about it. Magnesium cases, plastic cases, and a few metal ones (not sure if they were anodized or not) - anything we gave her came back within a couple months looking like it had gone into an acid bath.
She was extremely careful with her computers, but it didn't matter. The pH of her sweat was so acidic that there was nothing that could be done about it. Magnesium cases, plastic cases, and a few metal ones (not sure if they were anodized or not) - anything we gave her came back within a couple months looking like it had gone into an acid bath.