Hi all,
Wow, not posted on here for a while!
However, I would like to hear from some other members regarding their experience with the 13-inch rMBP (Late 2012).
My company bought three of these machines with the 2.9GHz processor upgrade. Two of us were coming from 13-inch MacBook Pros, one from a 13-inch Air. We also bought two more Airs at the same time.
So far, we have had so many problems with the 13-inch rMBPs, I've booked in to the genius bar this afternoon.
Some context before the problems list:
The reason I say this is so you know I know my way around Macs and OSX (though there's always so much more to learn).
Having said all that, I'd have to say these 13-inch rMBPs are the buggiest machines we've had to date. So many problems it's not funny (really, really not funny).
I'm also extermely interested in the fact that Apple updated these machines just over three months since they were introduced which is very, very short in Apple terms, and may scream 'underlying problem'.
There's been some discussion on Apple's support forums about a flawed wifi-BT chip being one of the issues and the only fix possible was to update the circuitry, which happened in January.
So, problems include:
Have any of you guys also experienced these issues? Any input gratefully received!
One last comment: in terms of pure reliability and robustness, my old 13-inch MBP actually works a lot better than this new $2k machine. Not good!
Wow, not posted on here for a while!
However, I would like to hear from some other members regarding their experience with the 13-inch rMBP (Late 2012).
My company bought three of these machines with the 2.9GHz processor upgrade. Two of us were coming from 13-inch MacBook Pros, one from a 13-inch Air. We also bought two more Airs at the same time.
So far, we have had so many problems with the 13-inch rMBPs, I've booked in to the genius bar this afternoon.
Some context before the problems list:
- This is the third generation of Macs we've used at this business, from the 2007 15-inch Pros with the awful NVIDIA GPU problems (60% of the machines' motherboards replaced numerous times), to the 2010-era 13-inch MBPs and Airs.
- I have been an exclusively Apple user for 16 years now, and an iPhone user since day 1. I love Macs particularly, but have had numerous machines fixed (as above) and replaced due to hardware defects, so I know how the process goes with Apple (usually slowly!).
- I'm the defacto Mac technician at work and home, having managed, fixed, revived and rebuilt many machines ranging from G3, G4 and G5 towers to iMacs and countless notebooks and the odd xeon Mac Pro.
The reason I say this is so you know I know my way around Macs and OSX (though there's always so much more to learn).
Having said all that, I'd have to say these 13-inch rMBPs are the buggiest machines we've had to date. So many problems it's not funny (really, really not funny).
I'm also extermely interested in the fact that Apple updated these machines just over three months since they were introduced which is very, very short in Apple terms, and may scream 'underlying problem'.
There's been some discussion on Apple's support forums about a flawed wifi-BT chip being one of the issues and the only fix possible was to update the circuitry, which happened in January.
So, problems include:
- Total system crash and reboot. No kernal panics, just complete random restarts.
- Freezing when waking from sleep (if sleeping longer than a few minutes). Apple has issued a 'fix' for this already but it didn't work.
- Terrible lag in mail using IMAP (doesn't happen on my old 13-inch MBP).
- Wifi network issues: forgetting, refusing to connect, losing connection.
- Kernal panics when using an LTE dongle (this one's easy to troubleshoot - the dongle! But we rely on these things when mobile...)
- Snow effect on screen (like an analogue TV with no signal) - possibly the most random GPU effect I've ever seen on a Mac, and that's saying something!
- Complete system freeze when presenting (this is very, very bad and has happened to all of us now using different versions of PowerPoint). Requires pulling out the projector cable and replugging, repeatedly, in the middle of presentations
Have any of you guys also experienced these issues? Any input gratefully received!
One last comment: in terms of pure reliability and robustness, my old 13-inch MBP actually works a lot better than this new $2k machine. Not good!