See that's where you still sit and don't realize time has passed by. MacOS is nowhere near superior or diffrent to Windows. When it was OS X, yes I would agree with you. Apple has not really done anything to MacOS to make it seem a better choice in a long time and Windows has come a long ways where they use to be. The only thing really differentiating Apple from Windows Ecosystem is, 1.(not saying it is worse, but pretty much everyone has caught up with them.) the hardware, which I think it's obvious, Apple is no longer the top spot and 2. you got so sucked into the Apple ecosystem with services etc etc that it would be really hard to ever get away from.(This i am saying is actually a bad idea.)
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple Identifies Logic Board Issue With 'Very Small Number' of 2018 MacBook Airs, Will Fix Free of Charge
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Sure perhaps in your case, but overall the quality control has gone down in particular the past few years. I'm not even referring to Tim Cooks leadership.
What’s frightening is your lack of logic (and btw since there’s only a small number of affected machines, you may _never_ see one).
It may be as simple as this: Apple has identified a marginally under-spec part (or one that’s less reliable than it should be) based on failure tracking. Could be 500, 5,000 or 50,000 affected, Apple knows based on manufacturing records. If a part that shouldn’t fail in 20 years is failing in a month or two, that’s a problem. A repair program instituted as soon as the issue is identified is the exact _opposite_ of frightening, whether at six days, six weeks or six months.
Last edited:
In that case Apple should have simply stated what you just did and no one would be worrying about a keyboard-like fiasco.
This is all your opinion. A lit up plastic logo is classier than a polished aluminum logo? Common now. It’s nostalgia to some people and you’re one.
No idea why anyone would think the 2016 design looks bad. The 2015’s look dated but hey it’s all your opinion.
Don’t like it don’t buy it. Buy old technology for the next 10 years cause you hate buying a few new cables.
It's really weird that they don't say what the issue is. Seems like they'd have *something* in their system...like a failed diagnostic code or common symptom of the failure. Or do they feel like replacing any logic board for free?? Consumers certainly won't mind but I think the shareholders would lol...
My wife’s computer had this exact issue just recently. In fact, Apple already has it to fix. They told her she was crazy and there was nothing wrong with it. It kept randomly shutting off, plugged in or on full battery. Then it was really hard to turn on again. They said it passed all their scans and was fine. She insisted on leaving it with them overnight, and it finally happened again when she went to pick up “because there was nothing wrong with it.” Then they admitted an issue and sent it for repair. Was very frustrating and unusable. Glad to see some info on this come out.
Disgracefully defective keyboards, glued-together computers with soldered-in RAM and drives...
Apple products should be hanging from pegs, in blister-packs, at Wal-Mart.
Apple products should be hanging from pegs, in blister-packs, at Wal-Mart.
Per the article, there’s a serial number range of the affected machines:
[doublepost=1561949855][/doublepost]
The fears of the Apple-hate crowd at MR forums are not nearly so easily allayed. Of the dozens and dozens of complaints, “concern” and negative posts, there have been what, two or three actual 2018 MacBook Air owners?
I have used several MacBooks since 2008 and the only model I have ha problems with was the 2016 MacBook Pro. On the second visit to the local genius bar here in Australia they swapped it with a new 2017 model. I have yet to have a bad experience with Apple service.
Let me translate this for you
"A small number of users" = "Basically everybody but some will never notice"
"A small number of users" = "Basically everybody but some will never notice"
no better or worse is not good enough, given the price quality should be superior. It used to be. Mac prices held so much longer than PCs and lived longer too AFAIK. new MBs are on repair programs day 1.
I think this is my last Apple laptop until they fire Cook or they make a new reliable design. I use Apple for reliability not headaches. Otherwise I will go back to Windows. I have no intentions to pay $1.5K-2K machines to deal with failures.
Yet another "very small number" Colour me surprised, is almost habitual now with Apple; Logic Boards, GPU's, displays, keyboards, batteries. Is beyond me why Apple just doesn't do due diligence in the first place. Time for Apple to be focusing on the customer not the shareholder...
Q-6
Q-6
Pretty much....or we wouldn’t have so many iterations of the crappy butterfly keyboard.And Apple has an SVP of hardware engineering for what then? Is he just a seat warmer in the board room?
Yeah, it's always a "smaller number."
[doublepost=1561966929][/doublepost]
Interesting. I haven’t heard of that until now. I returned my iPad mini 5 because of a number of display issues. In a nutshell, my iPad mini 4 had a much better display. I sampled quite a few other iPad mini 5s in the local stores and they were all the same. Quality shouldn't go down with new products.
So I put a new battery in my iPad mini 4 myself, which restored full performance and battery life. Since iOS 13 is likely the last iOS version that will support my iPad mini 4, I’m good for at least a little over a year. Will see what Apple does then. Hopefully the mini will be updated again by then with a better display.
[doublepost=1561966929][/doublepost]
Interesting. I haven’t heard of that until now. I returned my iPad mini 5 because of a number of display issues. In a nutshell, my iPad mini 4 had a much better display. I sampled quite a few other iPad mini 5s in the local stores and they were all the same. Quality shouldn't go down with new products.
So I put a new battery in my iPad mini 4 myself, which restored full performance and battery life. Since iOS 13 is likely the last iOS version that will support my iPad mini 4, I’m good for at least a little over a year. Will see what Apple does then. Hopefully the mini will be updated again by then with a better display.
Last edited:
Mistakes happened under Steve Jobs but never over and over again for the same thing. Apple has really gone downhill. The extremely overrated designer is now gone, thank God, now Tim Crook needs to go.
[doublepost=1561967367][/doublepost]
It's always a small number of affected users with Apple. What that really means are only the customers that will notice, care, or bring it in on time to repair.
Last edited:
You wanted privacy, now you have it.
Seriously though, I agree. All companies cover things to a degree as do individuals but some of their 'covering' is tantamount to lies.
y
you might want to give Louis Rossmann's NY repair shop a try, he has a huge YT channel, and if he can fix it, the fix might even be more permanent, e.g. larger capacitor, re-soldering instead of pressing rubber pad, and details like that
you might want to give Louis Rossmann's NY repair shop a try, he has a huge YT channel, and if he can fix it, the fix might even be more permanent, e.g. larger capacitor, re-soldering instead of pressing rubber pad, and details like that
Comments on Rossman's YouTube videos are just the worst kind of echo chamber I've ever seen. People incapable of making their own educated opinions.. they've just seen a YouTuber critique Apple products and just regurgitate the same crap. It's a total dumpster fire.
Rossman's profession means he gets a very skewed picture of the quality of the products he repairs. By definition all of the products he is working on have problems. I work in tech support and have done so since the beginning of the '90s and my impressions of my company's products are that they are a pile of crap. This being caused that very few customers tend to call in to say that product XXX has been very stable. You only come in touch with problems and that tends to colour your view of them.
I am not sure a lot of Rossman's viewers realize this.
This is completely different than privacy. Privacy is about customer's information, this is lies about Apple's devices owned by customers, which because they own the device now have a right to know about design and manufacturing flaws that prevent the device from delivering what the purchaser purchased.
I do say so and with your response I can see you are probably an after iPhone released Apple customer