Post here with your worst Mac experience/problem

[aussie_geek]

A few years ago my Tangerine iMac blew up and I was in the market for a new Mac. I threw $4000 AUD at a new Powermac Dual 867 Mhz and was really impressed with what I bought. TWO WEEKS LATER... The dual 1.0 Ghz machines came out with a 167 Mhz system bus, prices less than what I paid for my dual 867!! I wasn't very happy.

I am sure most Mac users have been caught this way in the past. It was obviously just my turn. Mind you the machine is still a firecracker and is in use every day.

aussie_geek

 

[comictimes]

My worst problem was when I was showing off to a friend, showing how you can't screw up a Mac. I dragged the System folder into the Trash, and it actually let me put it in there!

I immediately clicked the Trash can so that I could pull it back out again, but it wouldn't open, presumably because the file necessary to open the Trash were in the Trash.

I did fix it though. I rebooted into OS 9 and dragged the OS X System folder back to its proper place.

LOL- that's great.

For me, the worst problem is probably my current one, being that something is wrong with the power supply thing in my powerbook. My first power adapter, soon after I got the computer, began to only work of you twisted it around a bit, but it held out for about 8 months, then just stopped working. Then the one that apple replaced it with, after a month or two began doing this thing where it would light up, but my battery doesn't charge, so now I'm using a third party power adapter that I got to use in the car, but can be used in a normal outlet as well, at least until I call apple about this.

Of course the time my friend dropped his 20 pound or so backpack straight onto the top of the screen wasn't fun either. Luckily, with a bit of pushing the only result of that is that my powerbook now has a bit of spring to it when it's opened...

 

[wifi_cowboy]

I remember worst mac problem, when I tried logging on to my home wireless network with my iBook, which was my first mac. It found the network, but couldn't access the net, since I had a piece-of-**** Linksys router. Wasn't a way to start off experiencing Macs, but I managed... and killed the router .

 

[FuzzyBallz]

I dropped my Ti PB on the floor and damn thing cracked open. Nothing masking tape couldn't fix though.

 

[garybUK]

I ordered a fully loaded top of the range Powerbook G4 ti with 667mhz Processor, 1gb Ram, Combo Drive, 40gb Hard Disk Drive etc.. then when it was delivered two weeks later they announced the 800mhz G4 TI with better resolution / dvi port for the same price. I was well miffed!!

Havn't had a single problem with the powerbook but the paint on this thing, ive seen better quality poster paints in primary schools than what apple use on this thing. The machine looks like someones taken a bottle of tirps to it.

I ordered one of those TiPaint things from the net, got it shipped and proceeded to paint by tiBook, looks like it has tip-ex on it now! oh well I gave it to my sister when i got my G5 / PC Notebook.

 

[After G]

My worst problem with a Mac happened about a week after I had bought my eMac. The eject button wouldn't work, and instead would log me out and back in. I restarted the computer, thinking it would fix things. Instead, it choked at the boot screen and it wouldn't do anything after that. Fortunately, it was nothing reformatting couldn't fix though. It worked like a dream after that though.

 

[Les Kern]

This past weekend.
School's scheduled to start in 3 weeks, and I installed 12 XServe's over the summer. My DNS server simply stopped working. Oh, it was working I guess, but it only did REVERSE lookups, not forward! With my limited intelligence I worked 2 days on the issue, called Apple on it, nothing. Luckily My Apple SE is brilliant, and fixed it from Maine.
See, this isn't the ABSOLUTE worst thing. My world is unfortunately filled with health-threatening events like this. My advice to all you guys who want to be tech directors or IT guys: Order your Nexium now, don't marry, and prepare to live, oh, no more than 50 years.
I'm 48.