Does your MacBook have defects?

[Cheffy Dave]

Hi guys. The other day i found a little dust on the cover of my macbook so i tried to clean it off. But after cleaning, the little dust became a tiny little hole with silver color inside. Im not sure if it was there before or maybe because of my cleaning. Im thinking of exchnage for another one becuase of this. But is it really worth changing? After all, its extremely small little hole and normally no one or even me can recognise it. Want u guys' opinions. Cheers. And if anyone one else got the same problem? Thanks

gotta ask, did you try to clean it with acid? Scrub it with a dremel?
How does one "clean" a hole in their MacBook?

 

[Cheffy Dave]

well, mine gets really hot... but I guess I can live with it (not putting it on lap). Annoying thing is that the lefthand side bulges out a little (about 1mm).

And this evening I upgraded the memory and one of those friggin levers broke off !!!!
The memory is in there and working fine, but one of the levers is just dangling in there... I probably won't need to pull out the memory anymore (2gigs should be enough for its lifecycle), but I wonder if Apple would help me fix this...does upgrading memory yourself void the warranty ?

I must say, we are pretty disappointed with the quality of the Macbook overall

No to voiding the warranty, take it to an Apple Store get the lever fixed
Sheesh!

 

[Cheffy Dave]

Original Balck MacBook - my 80GB Seagate drive failed and I replaced with new 200GB, 7200rpm, Hitachi with fresh install of Leopard. Everything is ok now.

OOOOOOOOH, 7200 RPM-SWEET!
Waiting for 500 GB before I do that, 120 Gb is ok for now

 

[Cheffy Dave]

I absolutely love my BlackBook! Last month, I had gone to BestBuy to buy a new Mac, just wasn't sure which one. I wasn't happy with the displays on the MacBook and MacBook Air, they looked washed out, in the store anyways. I saw the iMacs and that made up my mind. I was sold.

I still had the MacBook on my mind. I already owned a MBP but I still wanted another laptop that was different. I went ahead and ordered a BlackBook on the Apple site and had it overnighted. Extremely happy I took the chance.

Not only was the display PERFECT, like all my other Macs, it was 100% perfect! No dead or stuck pixels, no case defects and well, the thing just works.

Apple quality rules.

Mine too, refurb with no screen issues, or any other for that matter. I just love it, my best computer ever. Totally mint. Maybe buying a closely scrutinized refurbed Apple product is the way to go. My BlackBook is mint all dressed up in a Sienna Red Case-Mate leather case- SWEET!

 

[Cheffy Dave]

My MacBook will sometimes not eject the disc.
Took it in to the Genius Bar, aka Grease-Monkey Bar for repair.
Their solution was to use a plastic tire iron to align the case slot with the drive.
Got it home and still having problems.
I commented at the "Genius" bar that this seemed to be a very non-technical fix and suggested they use a claw hammer. The Genius was not moved by my wit.
In my conversation with them, Michigan Avenue Apple here in Chicago, I suggested this was akin to bringing in your BMW with an alignment problem with a door, hood... and the mechanic using a tire iron to adjust the problem, and in the process damaging the paint and metal work.
They did damage the felt wiper with their precision tool and I am a little po'd about it.
I am going in tomorrow, another hour potentially wasted, and I am going to give them an ear full. I won't be satisfied unless they fix it correctly or replace the damn thing.
I am thinking PC again.

try no tude, and being nice, nobody likes to be verbally abused

 

[MarsMoonLuna]

try no tude, and being nice, nobody likes to be verbally abused

Well that was my first approach. When they pulled out the tool, if you could call it a tool, that's when I took exception. It's hard to be nice when someone is working over your stuff in the manner they did.

In any event, not to be rude, it's already been replaced (the superdrive) as reported in earlier post #71.

 

[jman77]

I got it on monday, and I noticed that the case was improperly put on around the iSight camera and the bottom of the case. I am going to have it looked at soon.

 

[David G.]

The only defect I have is that it is white, wish it were black.

 

[r.j.s]

A few months ago I had to take my MB in to get the inverter replaced, the screen flickered. They also replaced my bluetooth module. Besides those two issues, the only other problem I've had is running out of ram and HD space - twice.

 

[MarsMoonLuna]

The only defect I have is that it is white, wish it were black.

I have the Black and wouldn't get another. I am not sure white is any better or worse.
My 12" PowerBook G4 is Aluminum and I like it better. The Black started off with a satin finish on the keyboard which gets polished with use. I really hate the way it is starting to look, the keyboard and trackpad that is.

In the future I will avoid the plastic for this and environmental issues, as I heard they, Apple, are on the same page.