New 2.4 Purchase details ......
Got my new 2.4 from Apple Website. Arrived in 4 days, paid for delivery in 2 days.
Opened the box took machine out - battery cover loose as a goose !
Opened the lid, and found a pretty heavy scratch/dent near the edge of the palm rest on the left hand side.
Closed it all back up and called Apple Care.
The Apple Care rep said that she would not putup with dents and loose covers, so take it back to an Apple Store and exchange it.
Unfortunately the Apple store is an airliner flight to a different island, but I pulled it off the next day.
Got to the Store, and no questions asked - they took my box, and gave me another new one.
Opened the box in the store to make sure any obvious defects could be detected before I flew home. Machine looked good and no physical defect issues.
Later in the day I reformatted the HD to my own needs, and then proceeded to load software. After 6 hours of loading the machine never got hot.
Also installed a color sync modification from someone in this forum "JC". He did a great calibration job, and it works with my screen very nicely.
Additionally I own a MPB 2.16 with 4 gig ram and believe it or not the MB "seems" faster - quicker.
Observation for others: If you look at the screen "across the grain" or widthwise, with a bright reflection, and with something "straight" in the reflection as well, if you rotate the computer horizontally, you will notice in the reflection ripples or waves in "glass" These are minor, an not seen straight on.
However, upon closer inspection "glass" doesn't seem like "glass" at all. IF it is actually glass, it must have been made under poor quality control standards such as those found in Indonesia.
Also, you can see "pinch stress areas" around the edge of the screen, where the glass has been "pressed" into the aluminmum frame and a rubber gasket.
If the "glass" were REALLY GLASS, you would not have the stress areas visually indicated.
I think that Apple has changed the definition of "Glass" from melted sand, to stretched plastic polycarbonate.
If it is really "glass", it is the ******'ist example I have ever seen.
Regarding the "no-firewire" issue, Apple is really dumb. Jobs just wanted to stop paying royalties to the employees who shared the patent award, and he has been threatening to kill the firewire for sometime now.
For my money, he can leave out the paper work, and small manualout of the box and save money that way - stick the firewire back in ! !
Overall the machine feels nice in the hands, easy to balance, and the screen is good enough for average use (not for Pro graphics users).
3 out of 5 max.
WP
