So, just thought I'd share this...
Almost exactly a year ago, I bought a 15" 2.4GHz Santa Rosa MacBook Pro for my first year at college. From the start, I knew the machine was going to be trouble. The screen had a bad flicker about it and would occasionally half the screen would turn grey as well as mouse/keyboard responsiveness issues that got progressively worse. After a while, it was unuseable, so:
Apple Store trip #1... took an hour long bus ride (each way) to the Apple Store to drop it off to the Genius to be told it would have to be repaired and they did not have the parts in stock. Go back a week or so later, replaced the entire Display Clamshell (LCD, hinge, camera), top assembly (trackpad and the surrounding aluminum), and the keyboard.
Hooray, my machine should be all set. Not so much. Less than a month later, everything was working alright more or less and I'm in class and the machine just turns itself off after 20 minutes on a full charge. Somehow I went from 4+ hours of battery life to only 20 minutes or so. So:
Apple Store trip #2... took the same bus to the Apple Store and the genius reset the SMC and the problem persisted, so he replaced the battery as well as the power supply--as sometimes the LED would not illuminate at all. All was good
Hooray! I hope this is it. Nope. Slowly but surely the replaced display started to get wiggly. It just got more and more loose as if it was never screwed in all the way and the screw was slowly working it's way out. The trackpad responsiveness was still awful and a new symptom... the backlit keyboard's backlight no longer function. Awesome. Just, f****** awesome. Soooo....
Apple Store trip #3... took that same bus to the Apple Store and the genius took it in for repairs and I left it again for about a week. This time, they replaced the display clamshell (again), the top assembly (again), the keyboard (again), the logic board, the left I/O board, and the DC-in board. Cool.
Hooray! This HAS to be it. I mean... what else could go wrong? Silly me, the DVD drive wasn't replaced yet, so naturally that was the next thing to succumb. Plus, upon awakening from sleep, I was greeted to the attached image on occasion--that is--when it woke up at all. Therefore, Wednesday...
I called. And believe it or not, they just wanted to set it up for a repair again. I said whoa no. You can just keep it. I don't want it anymore. So, they're replacing it with a 2.6GHz 15" MBP. I certainly hope this one works out better. It should be here sometime between Tuesday and Thursday next week
Almost exactly a year ago, I bought a 15" 2.4GHz Santa Rosa MacBook Pro for my first year at college. From the start, I knew the machine was going to be trouble. The screen had a bad flicker about it and would occasionally half the screen would turn grey as well as mouse/keyboard responsiveness issues that got progressively worse. After a while, it was unuseable, so:
Apple Store trip #1... took an hour long bus ride (each way) to the Apple Store to drop it off to the Genius to be told it would have to be repaired and they did not have the parts in stock. Go back a week or so later, replaced the entire Display Clamshell (LCD, hinge, camera), top assembly (trackpad and the surrounding aluminum), and the keyboard.
Hooray, my machine should be all set. Not so much. Less than a month later, everything was working alright more or less and I'm in class and the machine just turns itself off after 20 minutes on a full charge. Somehow I went from 4+ hours of battery life to only 20 minutes or so. So:
Apple Store trip #2... took the same bus to the Apple Store and the genius reset the SMC and the problem persisted, so he replaced the battery as well as the power supply--as sometimes the LED would not illuminate at all. All was good
Hooray! I hope this is it. Nope. Slowly but surely the replaced display started to get wiggly. It just got more and more loose as if it was never screwed in all the way and the screw was slowly working it's way out. The trackpad responsiveness was still awful and a new symptom... the backlit keyboard's backlight no longer function. Awesome. Just, f****** awesome. Soooo....
Apple Store trip #3... took that same bus to the Apple Store and the genius took it in for repairs and I left it again for about a week. This time, they replaced the display clamshell (again), the top assembly (again), the keyboard (again), the logic board, the left I/O board, and the DC-in board. Cool.
Hooray! This HAS to be it. I mean... what else could go wrong? Silly me, the DVD drive wasn't replaced yet, so naturally that was the next thing to succumb. Plus, upon awakening from sleep, I was greeted to the attached image on occasion--that is--when it woke up at all. Therefore, Wednesday...
I called. And believe it or not, they just wanted to set it up for a repair again. I said whoa no. You can just keep it. I don't want it anymore. So, they're replacing it with a 2.6GHz 15" MBP. I certainly hope this one works out better. It should be here sometime between Tuesday and Thursday next week
