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Scared to buy an aluminum MacBook

wagonofdoom said:
no offense but you guys that buy the white and black books kinda piss me off.


You spend the least amount of money possible, and expect more than anyone from waht i have been reading all over the board.

Its like you buy a sportster to say you have a harley, or a 3 series to say you have a BMW.


i have an alumibook and can never be happier.
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The Blackbook and top end whitebook used to cost as much as the new ones (top end is now $100 more). So your analogy can easily be said for the current one also. You must not read many threads because most/a lot of them lately (of course this would be the case since the new one was just released) is people complaining about various issues about it.

People like us piss you off? Then stop reading threads addressing these laptops. Nobody makes you read them. What pisses me off is people who whine about threads that don't interest them when all they have to do is skip the thread. Then they post a whiny post in the thread that doesn't interest them. That makes no sense at all.

BTW I'm so happy that you love your new Macbook. I love mine also.
 
Just get a Dell notebook. They are built with better materials and have a better resale value than a Macbook.
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You base that assessment on what exactly?

I mean... the resale value part is easily disproven, but what makes you think that Dells are built with better materials?
 
My function keys are all slanted to one side. Can the apple store really consider it a defect? Doesn't really bother me I guess...
 
ThomasJL said:
I'm looking for:

• No dead pixels (not even one).
• No slanted keys
• No loose battery cover

That's not too much to ask for for $1300.

I know the viewing angle sucks, but that's not a defect. The three listed above, however, are indeed defects.
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one dead pixel. Give me a freaking break. And seriously people, a $1300 notebook is hardly high end. You can easily spend 3 times that on a windows notebook...macbooks are ENTRY level machines. This ridiculous nit-picking drives up warranty costs and means we all pay for the OCD freaks out there returning machines for 1 dead pixel.
 
A $1300 notebook IS high-end for most people. That's not pocket change. Sure it's the base model Mac notebook, but everyone knows that Macs in general carry a huge premium.

That said, I'm in the market for a Macbook myself, for work. Are the new Macbooks seriously $300 better than the old ones?
 
wagonofdoom said:
no offense but you guys that buy the white and black books kinda piss me off.


You spend the least amount of money possible, and expect more than anyone from waht i have been reading all over the board.

Its like you buy a sportster to say you have a harley, or a 3 series to say you have a BMW.


i have an alumibook and can never be happier.
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lolwut? I spent the same amount of money as an alumibook for my white macbook just because i bought mine in may doesnt mean i spent the least amount of money... I spent the same amount for what an alumnibook costs. IMO i think my 2.4 white macbook looks better then the alumnibook. But hey thats me, and i get firewire yay!
 
wagonofdoom said:
no offense but you guys that buy the white and black books kinda piss me off.


You spend the least amount of money possible, and expect more than anyone from waht i have been reading all over the board.

Its like you buy a sportster to say you have a harley, or a 3 series to say you have a BMW.


i have an alumibook and can never be happier.
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I paid, not much short of the cost of the Alum MacBook 2years ago, for a white MacBook, that has been perfect, as it should be! for that cost ,so do your reseach and dont talk such rubbish
 
ThomasJL said:
This past quarter, I ordered a BlackBook 2.4 from Apple's online store, and I've had to return it twice. I'm on my third one now, which is also defective. I'll be returning it. There is no Apple Store near where I live. This has been a major waste of time.
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Do me a favor. Buy one or two, then return them. The more people like you do this, the sooner they will appear in the refurb store for the rest of us.

Seriously, what is it about apple that attracts such a high percentage of OCD sufferers?
 
sparkstack said:
Seriously, what is it about apple that attracts such a high percentage of OCD sufferers?
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Consumers' awareness that they are paying far, far more than the worth of the product, accepting the premium on the erroneous perception that the product is more than the sum of its parts. Obsessive behavior targeting a single possession doesn't exactly equal a disorder. Witness the behavior of many owners of "fine" automobiles, for which they paid exorbitant sums of money and which are often in for repair.

You're assuming that this "OCD" is the real deal. Some of it must be, but I would think a lot of us are just normal, otherwise mentally sound folks who know they paid twice as much as the machine was worth and felt that it entitled them to a very high expectation. As previously stated, it's a lot easier to ignore minor defects in something that costs $700 versus $2700---especially when the real differences between the products turn out to be far less significant than the perceived ones.
 
xpovos said:
Consumers' awareness that they are paying far, far more than the worth of the product, accepting the premium on the erroneous perception that the product is more than the sum of its parts. Obsessive behavior targeting a single possession doesn't exactly equal a disorder. Witness the behavior of many owners of "fine" automobiles, for which they paid exorbitant sums of money and which are often in for repair.
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I'm sorry, but that's just pure bs. Consumers are paying for expensive machining of aluminium and glass over cheap injection molded plastic. They are paying for OS X and iLife over Vista and whatever their PC vendor of choice is bundling this week. To some people that it worth the extra $200 over a Dell.

xpovos said:
it's a lot easier to ignore minor defects in something that costs $700 versus $2700
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You paid $2700 for a MacBook?? Wow. I've got some real estate in Florida for sale if your interested...

Regardless, sending a computer, ANY computer back because of one dead pixel, or a slightly canted key on the keyboard, or because it doesn't quite make the right kind of click when you plug something into one of it's ports is just plain silly.

Back to your automobile analogy. No one, no matter how expensive the car, would get a brand new car if, after driving it home, they found a tiny scratch on the windscreen. The best they would get would be a repair. Expecting nay, demanding that Apple replace a laptop because of a dead pixel?

Some of you people need to grow the hell up.
 
ITGuy said:
Found this article: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/29/nvidia-heat-causing-macbooks

If this is true, the Alu MacBook and MacBook Pros may need to be repaired, as did the previous MacBook Pros with their NVIDIA GPU issue. The OP is right in being cautious.
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That's a very misleading article and completely overlooks the fact that apple and nvidia have a deal that allows apple to cherry pick their 9400m chipset/video cards. Also makes a huge issue out of a revisions system that may or may not be an issue. Other sites have pointed out that the MCP79 chipset was originally designed to be a desktop system so the B revision could simply be because of the changes needed to deploy it on notebooks.

I'm a new macbook owner and really like it, but no matter what you decide to do, if you fall behind in class I fail to see how it's apple's fault or any other manufacturer for that matter. Millions of people have graduated from college without the benefit of a laptop. Heck some even did it without a calculator ;)
 
Just take a chance. I don't think you should accept one dead pixel. And if you're persistent, they'll exchange it for you.

I've had a lot of bad apples, but I've also had some good experiences. So just take a chance.
 
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