As the title says. I'm within the 14 day exchange period. The major thing stopping me is that this is my third MacBook Pro (first one wouln't boot up at all, second one I exchanged for hard drive noise - which just turned out to loud but normal).
This is what is making me think of exchanging it:
- For the first two days, it wouldn't charge for any longer than about 20 minutes maximum with an average about 5 - 10 minutes. The magsafe adapter would simply turn off, and then I had to wait about 20 minutes, plug, unplug it, and then it would charge again for a while before dying again. I tried installing the latest updates, smc resets, pram resets and nothing worked. Then suddenly after two days, it just started working - except I seem to have to plug and unplug the magsafe adapter every time I use it in a different outlet (need to confirm this since it usually just stays in the same outlet). So it's pretty much working now, but I'm not sure if I should just settle for "pretty much". I'm especially suspicious about what exactly was wrong in the first place and if it'll fail later.
- There are a number of small cosmetic defects. First, when I unwrapped it from the seal there was some glue residue around the screen. Fine, whatever, I cleaned it off. But there's also some strange kind of grid pattern of half-centimetre squares on the black glossy bezel that seems like some kind of oil or glue residue that won't come off after cleaning. It's not visible until there's water applied to it or until it's in direct light. There are also some tiny (not visible from a distance but definitely there) defects: two little chips on the edge near the trackpad, some kind of oil stain that looks like a dent but doesn't seem to be on the left of the trackpad, a little scratch on the left of the keyboard and a tiny hole in the aluminium above the power button.
After three MBPs in a row, I'm just wary that the next replacement will be even worse or have different problems. I'm also wondering if such little defects in the finish are normal or not? Though I did have a close look at another MBP in the store and it seemed pretty pristine...Your thoughts?
This is what is making me think of exchanging it:
- For the first two days, it wouldn't charge for any longer than about 20 minutes maximum with an average about 5 - 10 minutes. The magsafe adapter would simply turn off, and then I had to wait about 20 minutes, plug, unplug it, and then it would charge again for a while before dying again. I tried installing the latest updates, smc resets, pram resets and nothing worked. Then suddenly after two days, it just started working - except I seem to have to plug and unplug the magsafe adapter every time I use it in a different outlet (need to confirm this since it usually just stays in the same outlet). So it's pretty much working now, but I'm not sure if I should just settle for "pretty much". I'm especially suspicious about what exactly was wrong in the first place and if it'll fail later.
- There are a number of small cosmetic defects. First, when I unwrapped it from the seal there was some glue residue around the screen. Fine, whatever, I cleaned it off. But there's also some strange kind of grid pattern of half-centimetre squares on the black glossy bezel that seems like some kind of oil or glue residue that won't come off after cleaning. It's not visible until there's water applied to it or until it's in direct light. There are also some tiny (not visible from a distance but definitely there) defects: two little chips on the edge near the trackpad, some kind of oil stain that looks like a dent but doesn't seem to be on the left of the trackpad, a little scratch on the left of the keyboard and a tiny hole in the aluminium above the power button.
After three MBPs in a row, I'm just wary that the next replacement will be even worse or have different problems. I'm also wondering if such little defects in the finish are normal or not? Though I did have a close look at another MBP in the store and it seemed pretty pristine...Your thoughts?
