it's always "very small number", I've heard that excuse so many times
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Apple Identifies Logic Board Issue With 'Very Small Number' of 2018 MacBook Airs, Will Fix Free of Charge
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Apple has turned into just another tech company, but is still charging the premium as when their products used to be "magical".
Maybe because it always is a small number? When you sell very large numbers of product (like 300,000,000 units per year) many numbers are small relative to the people with zero issues.
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They literally sold over 400M iPhone 6 and 6s.
A design defect would have been catastrophic.
Fair enough. But you'll miss out on perhaps the last of the best laptops Apple made... the 2017 MacBook Air.
I would take a 2018 Air over the 2017 one.
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We don’t know how much Airs percentage wise, but yeah, a very small amount of iPhone 6 devices had issues (compared to the number of devices sold). Oh, but take note, this does not apply for the MRF dimension, here it’s all catastrophic level, of course!
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Rossmann is almost as annoying as people calling other people “sheep”.
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... like how the butterfly keyboard issues only affect a very small number of users
Fair enough. But you'll miss out on perhaps the last of the best laptops Apple made... the 2017 MacBook Air.
I always forget that lived on, quietly, diligently, a non-butterfly hidden remaining gem in the lineup. You’re absolutely right; that’s the newest laptop I would consider, and very seriously actually, because I really liked everything about it. (Except the lack of a 1tb storage option.)
This is true; no stranger to catastrophic time bombs of the 2011 17” GPU problem or the iMac G5 capacitor problem long before that. However, this isn’t just one model for one year we’re talking about here. This has been a major fiasco including every laptop across every range they’ve ever made for 4 years.
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How can Apple identify an undisclosed issue?
That sentence makes absolutely no sense.
Apple can identify issues and not disclose them. But once they comment it’s no longer undisclosed.
Maybe it should say “Apple has recognised a previously undisclosed issue”
That sentence makes absolutely no sense.
Apple can identify issues and not disclose them. But once they comment it’s no longer undisclosed.
Maybe it should say “Apple has recognised a previously undisclosed issue”
Margins have fallen under TC.
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And Its always retorts like yours reflexively uttered so many times, with nothing added to support that it isn’t a small number. Just lazy contentless forum jibber-jabber.
Difference is everything disposable now is Made in China whereas Apple devices that were made and still running from over 30 years ago were Made in Japan, Ireland, USA, etc.
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All the pre-Retina Airs have awful displays for 2019.Fair enough. But you'll miss out on perhaps the last of the best laptops Apple made... the 2017 MacBook Air.
Are they going to cover data recovery for an HD that is attached to the faulty logic board they allowed to get out and are "taking care of" so generously or are they going to blame someone for not backing up when it's their issue not the consumers.
All of this stuff always gets so much praise before any thought is REALLY put into it.
All of this stuff always gets so much praise before any thought is REALLY put into it.
Dunno what’s going wrong with apple. The screen of my MacBook Pro 2017 broke once and the 2018 one - twice...
The best part of your rant is that Apple hasn't said anything at all one way or another.
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They're repairing every affected unit for free, so how is that an excuse? And even if it is, how is it relevant?
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Nostalgia must be fogging your brain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/business/apple-california-manufacturing-history.html
That is subjective. I think the non -retina display on those MBAs are fine. But I understand that others have higher standards.
Such a bold “claim”.
Apple designs bad hardware and let manufacturers build them. No matter how “high” quality control they have, the end product is still bad, unreliable and easy to break. If you want to blame, blame those engineers instead.
*cough* bendgate *cough*
I really don't get this.
They are releasing for each line one to two "models" per year, at best.
They are a trillion dollar company.
Why can't they make computers which aren't affected by these faults?
I remember back at the turn of the century there were more than one computer companies (Windows based laptops) which had various issues with mainboards etc. With the years they managed to more or less almost erase any such issues from happening. Yes there is the occasional model that has issues, but we are talking among several companies with god knows how many different models released each year.
I just don't get what appears to be Apple either not being able (why?) or not caring (why?) to pay more attention to their computers.
They are releasing for each line one to two "models" per year, at best.
They are a trillion dollar company.
Why can't they make computers which aren't affected by these faults?
I remember back at the turn of the century there were more than one computer companies (Windows based laptops) which had various issues with mainboards etc. With the years they managed to more or less almost erase any such issues from happening. Yes there is the occasional model that has issues, but we are talking among several companies with god knows how many different models released each year.
I just don't get what appears to be Apple either not being able (why?) or not caring (why?) to pay more attention to their computers.
Maybe that’s the time when people actually have time and effort to carefully design a product that is capable of running over 30 years? And they love their products more than today’s people?
I bet teenagers nowadays can throw away a maxed out iPhone XS Max without even thinking how much it worth. Or a maxed out cheese grater if they happen to have one. That’s how today’s disposable culture works.
Because they design a hardware that won’t last? Because they embrace bad internal design that won’t last?
What we should blame is design team really.
*cough* was only an issue if you were a moron *cough*. My 6 is still perfect, as are all the others I’m aware of (hint: anecdote, just like bendgate).
You fail to understand the difference between quality, what I'm referring to, versus efficiency per the article. Apple II series was the peak of Apple quality and went downhill with Macintosh as efficiency increased as they're the inverse of each other much like cuisine food versus fast food. It's not uncommon for Apple II series to still run problem free nearly 40 years after they were made. Skinny jean hipster generation wasn't around to understand.
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So I’ve got a 2018 15” MBP and haven’t had any issues with it. Thus, based on my single experience I can unequivocally claim that all 2018 15” are perfect, and none have any issues.
While I doubt it, I hope the above illustrates the logically fallacy of most of the posts here claiming that ALL Apple laptops post 2015 are awful.
While I doubt it, I hope the above illustrates the logically fallacy of most of the posts here claiming that ALL Apple laptops post 2015 are awful.
“Very small number”? Man these tech companies all believe their customers/users are idiots and only regulators are gonna stop it.
Same here. Waking up from sleep or opening the lid seems to cause some funky stuff happening.
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But does it run MacOS? End of discussion.