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My life is a mess thanks to Apple's quality control
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Sorry to hear of the OP's situation.
Most of us have found ourselves in a position of great distress when it comes to tech related issues of one form or another. Those who've enjoyed nothing but smooth sailing have had remarkable luck.
Fortunately I learned at a very young age, the value of proper computing practices. Nothing beats an exemplary backup routine, a spare computer & a proper NAS / UPS setup.
My work, like most of us who use a computer as their primary tool with which they make their living with is absolutely mission critical. While I don't suggest it for others, I always keep a second machine that's a mirror image of my primary computer. The peace of mind of that & multiple current backups is priceless.
Most of us have found ourselves in a position of great distress when it comes to tech related issues of one form or another. Those who've enjoyed nothing but smooth sailing have had remarkable luck.
Fortunately I learned at a very young age, the value of proper computing practices. Nothing beats an exemplary backup routine, a spare computer & a proper NAS / UPS setup.
My work, like most of us who use a computer as their primary tool with which they make their living with is absolutely mission critical. While I don't suggest it for others, I always keep a second machine that's a mirror image of my primary computer. The peace of mind of that & multiple current backups is priceless.
So,ok
How long have you had the MBP?
When did the problem start?
When has the factory drive replaced?
I've not heard of a cable issue for this series of machines.
If you have the still fine a case and boot it to another Mac
Sorry for you situation.
Regards,
Jed
For the third time in a row, my babied, cared for, delicately handled 13" MacBook Pro has had the hard drive cable fail. I have an analytical chemistry report due by 12 midnight tonight and my MacBook is being shipped out for service. I have my iPad (useless) and my Nexus 4 smartphone (actually more useful for spreadsheets than the iPad, go figure) and a school campus of computers that are ALL equipped with Excel 2010.
So I'm basically screwed.
The first time it happened was in early February. I got a blinking folder icon. I immediately pulled my drive and hooked it up through USB to another computer. Drive worked, obviously the cable. Turned it in for service and got it back a whole week later. Second time it happened was one month later. Now, without failure, it happened a third time. It's almost consistent.
I have to run around campus and either find someone with a Mac that can let me borrow it for 8 hours or I might just swipe a laptop to my student account and sell it for a $100 or maybe even $200 loss when I get my MacBook back.
And before you hurl insults at me about how I should just sell my laptop and go back to Windows, try to be more considerate to my situation. I love my MacBook and I love OSX. The 13" Pro is perfect for me because I was able to upgrade it myself, it's not terribly expensive compared to the 15" Pro or Retina 13". It's light enough to carry around. But thanks to this issue, I'm effectively losing 3-5 days of healthy productivity as an engineering student.
I'm taking very hard classes. Running around finding a computer to use because my Macbook is out for service is very detrimental to my schedule. And who cares if I can get a brand new laptop due to lemon clause? That still means potentially hours at an Apple store or on the phone with their technical support, playing the "I deserve this" tug of war. I don't have time for that and most managers know that you play the tug of war specifically so you can get people without time to give up. So I'm left with a few options and they're ALL terrible:
Sell my MacBook at a loss (No one's going to pay me what I paid for it) and pay even even more substantial amount to 'upgrade' to a MacBook that doesn't have this issue (not confirmed) that will either offer more performance for a much heavier form factor (15" Non Retina Pro) or offer a much better screen but a lot less upgradeability and the loss of an optical drive (I rent DVD's from Red Box). So I lose money, lose money and lose either functionality or space convenience.
Accept it. Accept that the 13" Pro is a great product with a really nasty quality control issue. I stock up on hard drive cables since I can do the repair myself. (They're not cheap. $20-25 per cable adds up if you have to replace it 5 times a year) Or try to get it replaced using the lemon clause (if that even exists). Even a new 13" Pro replacement might have the issue. You never know. Some of my friends have never had the issue, 3 of my friends have. It's literally a gamble.
Go back to Windows....
Sigh, this is such a nightmare. And during midterms season too.
How long have you had the MBP?
When did the problem start?
When has the factory drive replaced?
I've not heard of a cable issue for this series of machines.
If you have the still fine a case and boot it to another Mac
Sorry for you situation.
Regards,
Jed
For the third time in a row, my babied, cared for, delicately handled 13" MacBook Pro has had the hard drive cable fail. I have an analytical chemistry report due by 12 midnight tonight and my MacBook is being shipped out for service. I have my iPad (useless) and my Nexus 4 smartphone (actually more useful for spreadsheets than the iPad, go figure) and a school campus of computers that are ALL equipped with Excel 2010.
So I'm basically screwed.
The first time it happened was in early February. I got a blinking folder icon. I immediately pulled my drive and hooked it up through USB to another computer. Drive worked, obviously the cable. Turned it in for service and got it back a whole week later. Second time it happened was one month later. Now, without failure, it happened a third time. It's almost consistent.
I have to run around campus and either find someone with a Mac that can let me borrow it for 8 hours or I might just swipe a laptop to my student account and sell it for a $100 or maybe even $200 loss when I get my MacBook back.
And before you hurl insults at me about how I should just sell my laptop and go back to Windows, try to be more considerate to my situation. I love my MacBook and I love OSX. The 13" Pro is perfect for me because I was able to upgrade it myself, it's not terribly expensive compared to the 15" Pro or Retina 13". It's light enough to carry around. But thanks to this issue, I'm effectively losing 3-5 days of healthy productivity as an engineering student.
I'm taking very hard classes. Running around finding a computer to use because my Macbook is out for service is very detrimental to my schedule. And who cares if I can get a brand new laptop due to lemon clause? That still means potentially hours at an Apple store or on the phone with their technical support, playing the "I deserve this" tug of war. I don't have time for that and most managers know that you play the tug of war specifically so you can get people without time to give up. So I'm left with a few options and they're ALL terrible:
Sell my MacBook at a loss (No one's going to pay me what I paid for it) and pay even even more substantial amount to 'upgrade' to a MacBook that doesn't have this issue (not confirmed) that will either offer more performance for a much heavier form factor (15" Non Retina Pro) or offer a much better screen but a lot less upgradeability and the loss of an optical drive (I rent DVD's from Red Box). So I lose money, lose money and lose either functionality or space convenience.
Accept it. Accept that the 13" Pro is a great product with a really nasty quality control issue. I stock up on hard drive cables since I can do the repair myself. (They're not cheap. $20-25 per cable adds up if you have to replace it 5 times a year) Or try to get it replaced using the lemon clause (if that even exists). Even a new 13" Pro replacement might have the issue. You never know. Some of my friends have never had the issue, 3 of my friends have. It's literally a gamble.
Go back to Windows....
Sigh, this is such a nightmare. And during midterms season too.
SATA to USB boot off of that finish your work turn it in send the Mac to Apple.
Like when we all used slide rules and the closest thing to excel was graph paper.
I miss those days. Had to actually know what you were doing to complete the work load
Ah, well.
To the OP:
Like anything, expect problems. Take the problem, identify it, come up with a solution, and more than anything - have a backup plan.
Always.
You'll find this out after school, once you have some experience under your belt, even the best laid plans go awry, and depending on your project, you could very well be taking your own or someone else's life in your hands.
Always have a backup plan.
Sounds like your life is a mess because you procrastinate and made poor decisions. You don't need a Mac for school, you could buy a windows PC and I took no less than 15 credit hours and worked 10 hours a day and yet I managed to keep my life together. We all have troubles, yours are no more or less important. Get the computer fixed.