Ok I got a black macbook refurb from the Apple store.
I have to say I'm disappointed. I have an Imac. Older Core Duo model. And perhaps I'm disappointed because I'm comparing it to my imac and not to other laptops. I haven't used laptops in awhile.
Anyway here's the problems I have.
1. Trackpad button. It clicks in the very middle, but on either side is just goes down. No click. It seems to work everytime, but it doesn't feel right.
2. iSight. My wife noticed this problem. IT's really slow when recording video. And the audio seems a bit out of sync with your image. For example, I blink my eyes and I can watch my eyes blink on the screen. (There's that much delay.) The iSight video playback is extremely choppy too with the audio seemingly out of sync with the video and the framerate in the single digits. On my iMac, iSight works nicely.
3. The screen. Perhaps my biggest complaint. The viewing angle just seems terrible especially the vertical viewing angle. I barely shift position and the contrast change is dramatic. Night and day compared to my iMac.
Also when scrolling down a webpage (using the 2 finger scroll) like in these forums there's a ton of flickering. Horizontal lines really flicker. And the dark blue color names of threads with new messages change briefly to a brighter blue color while scrolling. I know scrolling isn't perfectly smooth, but I noticed these artifacts right away. My iMac seems much smoother in comparison.
I also noticed when I drag windows that they really flicker alot too. And I was getting some weird thing happening where the cursor would change rapidly back and forth from a pointer to a hand while I dragged a Safari window. It still works it just looks pretty wonky and it doesn't always do it.
Ok am I being picky or are any of these legitimate defects? Or is this just the nature of the Macbook. I'm curious because I'm returning it for these problems and requesting a refund and don't want a restocking fee.
I have to say I'm disappointed. I have an Imac. Older Core Duo model. And perhaps I'm disappointed because I'm comparing it to my imac and not to other laptops. I haven't used laptops in awhile.
Anyway here's the problems I have.
1. Trackpad button. It clicks in the very middle, but on either side is just goes down. No click. It seems to work everytime, but it doesn't feel right.
2. iSight. My wife noticed this problem. IT's really slow when recording video. And the audio seems a bit out of sync with your image. For example, I blink my eyes and I can watch my eyes blink on the screen. (There's that much delay.) The iSight video playback is extremely choppy too with the audio seemingly out of sync with the video and the framerate in the single digits. On my iMac, iSight works nicely.
3. The screen. Perhaps my biggest complaint. The viewing angle just seems terrible especially the vertical viewing angle. I barely shift position and the contrast change is dramatic. Night and day compared to my iMac.
Also when scrolling down a webpage (using the 2 finger scroll) like in these forums there's a ton of flickering. Horizontal lines really flicker. And the dark blue color names of threads with new messages change briefly to a brighter blue color while scrolling. I know scrolling isn't perfectly smooth, but I noticed these artifacts right away. My iMac seems much smoother in comparison.
I also noticed when I drag windows that they really flicker alot too. And I was getting some weird thing happening where the cursor would change rapidly back and forth from a pointer to a hand while I dragged a Safari window. It still works it just looks pretty wonky and it doesn't always do it.
Ok am I being picky or are any of these legitimate defects? Or is this just the nature of the Macbook. I'm curious because I'm returning it for these problems and requesting a refund and don't want a restocking fee.
