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New MacBook Airs Experiencing Logic Board Issues?

thats not a good sign. I have the 11 inch ultimate and i'm not currently having any problems. right now.

*crossing fingers*

I've had it since last saturday and already taken the macbook air on the a flight.
 
My MacBook Pro does that all the time as well. It randomly reboots about once a week. I'm out of warranty so I'm just used to hitting SAVE every couple of seconds when I work on something. It's not a big problem, you can live with it, it still beats buying a new logic board (most expensive part of the computer).

For the MacBook Air folks, return your computer until you're under warranty, or you will regret it!
 
It sounds more like a quality control issue than a design issue at this point.

Let's hope Apple can pinpoint it as people return MB Air's showing the problem.

I buy a lot of Rev. A stuff from Apple, and haven't had to return anything yet. (knock on wood.)
 
Mine does all of these. And, when plugged into a 24" Apple LED display, the screen will go pinkish white on both displays, forcing me to reboot and lose all my work. I was going to bring it in to the store, but from reading this, my guess is that whatever replacement unit I get will have the same, or similar, issues.
 
That's what warranties are for.

Some_Big_Spoon said:
Mine does all of these. And, when plugged into a 24" Apple LED display, the screen will go pinkish white on both displays, forcing me to reboot and lose all my work. I was going to bring it in to the store, but from reading this, my guess is that whatever replacement unit I get will have the same, or similar, issues.
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Uh ? No, read the article again, this does not affect all units out there. Go to the store and exchange it.
 
iStudentUK said:
So last six months-

iPhone 4- proximity issues and grip-off-death
iPhoto '11- there go your pictures
iOS- alarms going off at wrong time
MacBook Air- suffering panic attacks

Go Apple.

My guess-

"We don't see functioning logic boards taking off right now.

-Sent from my iPhone"
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So where are you now looking for your bug-free software?
 
Have the 11.6 base model. Taken it on the road a couple times already - no issues. Only issue I have seen - caps lock stays on randomly on occasion. But I sometimes get that on my 2007 MB as well.

This thing reboots FAST, however. :)

Cheers
 
SammySlim said:
Have the 11.6 base model. Taken it on the road a couple times already - no issues. Only issue I have seen - caps lock stays on randomly on occasion. But I sometimes get that on my 2007 MB as well.
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That's not a bug, that's a feature. You need to hold capslock a bit longer to trigger it. It's to prevent an accidental change when you just hit the key by mistake.

All MacBooks and Apple keyboards are like that.
 
There it goes Apple with is crap again, so much money and big team and they are lately selling crap.
 
iStudentUK said:
So last six months-

iPhone 4- proximity issues and grip-off-death
iPhoto '11- there go your pictures
iOS- alarms going off at wrong time
MacBook Air- suffering panic attacks

Go Apple.
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That's not even the extent of it...

- Not one, but TWO critical Safari security vulnerabilities
- Critical Filesharing vulnerability
- iOS zero-day jailbreak

I have also gotten a number of kernel panics since upgrading to MacOS 10.6.4, and the panic log seems to indicate networking as a culprit. While I don't have the graphics issues that the Airs have, I have to wonder whether some of this is OS related rather than hardware, as I've also heard from some friends that their Macs have gotten more kernel panics in recent months.

Really wish Apple would spend a little more money on QC.
 
One Word For The Issue

NVIDIA...

Apple should have used AMD and the issue wouldnt be there nvidia is a bad batch...

I will not buy another mac computer untill they offer an AMD based system or at least an AMD video card in the notebook.
 
zap2 said:
I had the same issue, random power downs, random graphic issues and sometimes the screen would turn green or blue.

I look some pictures, took it into the Genius Bar, showed them the pictures, and they replaced it right on the stop.
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Wait, you mean they have 11" 1.6 4GB's on hand at they store?
If I had known that, I wouldn't have ordered it online.

D.
 
iDisk said:
This affects a small percentage of users, a fix is coming soon.

- Bruce
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Will you stop pretending you're responding in an official manner in the name of Apple ? It's really, really starting to irritate everyone.

The fix is simple : bring it in for an exchange/repair. Not all units are affected.
 
longofest said:
That's not even the extent of it...

- Not one, but TWO critical Safari security vulnerabilities
- Critical Filesharing vulnerability
- iOS zero-day jailbreak

I have also gotten a number of kernel panics since upgrading to MacOS 10.6.4, and the panic log seems to indicate networking as a culprit. While I don't have the graphics issues that the Airs have, I have to wonder whether some of this is OS related rather than hardware, as I've also heard from some friends that their Macs have gotten more kernel panics in recent months.

Really wish Apple would spend a little more money on QC.
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LOL man...i wish you could feel my virtual punch i threw your way...CRITICAL safari vulnerability issues...come on now...everything that you wrote was a crock. and so was the post from your little buddy you quoted...if you have so many problems with apple products go get an Acer and get off of MAC rumors we dont need your kind
 
jaydub said:
brave souls buy Rev. A Apple products.
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Totally.

The truly productive non-tinkerer should never buy Rev. A from Apple.

If Jobs wants to be excellent about something, he should work out his testing groups and strategies so these sorts of problems are minimized or eliminated before the release.

However, second and beyond revs. tend to be quite good. The price of novelty is glitchiness.
 
Thunderbird said:
yep, curse of the Rev A.
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Some people laugh when I say it but its true. Pretty much any electronic Rev A product is going to be more prone to issues (which of course is not to say that later Revs are not).

That said, the reality of how many people this is actually affecting is probably very small.
 
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