Disappointed after switch to Mac

[padapada]

Another update: have had no problems anymore and I am very happy with the machine.

Alltough expensive this laptop is totally worth it:
- Love OSX
- No standby/resume problems
- Battery life!!!
- Bootcamp (for Tacx cycling software)
- Display, trackpad are absolutely brilliant

About the "expensive" machine: this is not an apple-try-out, this is a 100% switch to apple/osx and I *hate* mechanical harddrives. My daytime job is C++ programming and the day we got SSD's I fell in love with them
The whole family loves the MBP. When using the old laptop you realize how damn good the MBP is.

Expensive is subjective.

Patrick

 

[NickZac]

Glad to hear all worked out!

And as far as SSDs go, I love 'em. Almost as cool as sliced bread.

 

[docal97]

You almost certainly have bad hardware. Calling/taking it to Apple or an authorized service provider will certainly be more likely to result in a fix than posting on macrumors.

Yeah, I agree here. When you buy a brand new machine, you should expect flawless performance. If you are having those types of problems, u need to go to the store or call them.

I just got a new machine 10 days ago- if I had your issues, I would have been back there within a day, requesting a brand new replacement.

Please keep us updated....

 

[calaverasgrande]

I would still take it in. If the dock or finder is going unresponsive thats an issue that could result in you losing data/work someday. I havent ever had that happen on my MBP. Quite often on my used/abused mac mini though!
I recently helped out a client whose machine (G5 Mac Pro) was showing similar symptoms to yours until the day it wouldnt boot. Then I had to rescue the data off of the 5 year old drive and migrate it over to a new 500gb drive. Luckily he only lost a few apps.

 

[stevemiller]

i'm glad its working, but i'd still say you shouldn't hesitate to take it in to have it looked at if the problem does surface again. i've had a failed superdrive and an expanding battery in my two years of owning a mbp, and both times i was able to take it in to an apple store and have it fixed in a matter of hours (the battery was a swap on the spot).

as your experience has shown, sometimes an unlucky hardware flaw can overshadow an otherwise great machine