CAUTION: New 17" PowerBook Problems

[generik]

Nothing, but I've read a lot of reviews praising how good they are and out of all the electronic devices I bought over the past few years every Apple product has broken (4) but none of the Sony, JVC, Samsung stuff has.

I can see the screens are better quality in the stores. Plus if they do go wrong Samsung gives you a three year warranty on site (included in the price), and if I do need to go without the screen I still have a computer to use ..

I have to agree with you on this one. I also have to add in that IMHO, AppleCare is nothing but a scam.

I'd rather sell my PB every 10 months than to spend 20% of my laptop price on "AppleCare".

 

[ibidiem]

Is this the airport update you're speaking of?

Cause if so, it came out in mid july. The iBook that I have came out in late july, I got mine first of september, and it already had Tiger.2 on it, so it probably had the airport update...

I just checked my Airport Admin app... it's version 4.2.

The problem is my problem, so, no, that ain't no fix.

 

[apoptoticdream]

now im scared... I was Just about to buy my Powerbook in December...
was gunna be 15" with 1 GB of RAM exactly

I just got a new 15" PB with 1.5GB RAM (installed a 1GB stick from Crucial myself) and everything is running just fine. The screen is gorgeous and the machine is (obviously) a vast improvement over my 933MHz iBook G4.

 

[cepler]

The Airport Extreme update appears to have fixed the real bad lag/dropout issue with wireless on the new powerbooks, at least it seems to have on mine...

I have 2 gig of RAM in mine and if I launched all my apps and brought my free RAM down to 200-500 meg the pings would start dropping and latency would shoot thru the roof. After applying the wireless update I can reliably ping at 20-30ms to my server at work with no dropped packets. Examples of the fun below, if you squint you can make out the ping times...

 

[cepler]

The standalone copy of the update is available at:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28282

But should also be in your system updater...

 

[munckee]

Possible fix discussed here:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@848.c0BOaAGPTis.3@.68bdbe16