The Macbook Pro is the biggest pile of crap I've ever owned

[MagicBoy]

110C on 6 different machines? You must be using it on a fluffy down comforter or something like it that covers the vents, thus causing the machine to literally cook itself. Sorry you had such a bad time. I'd always recommend a Thinkpad laptop for your switch back. I'd tell you to try Ubuntu, but it sounds like you and that OS wouldn't play well...

If he's killing MBPs with such ruthless efficiency I doubt a ThinkPad would fare any better. ThinkPads are the laptop of choice where I work and they're well made and very sturdy, but they're not ihatemymbp proof. Maybe one of the military spec Panny Toughbooks?

Oh and Target disk mode for the win to get his data off. If not, yank the drive and stick it in a caddy. It's not rocket science.

 

[Jasoco]

My battery is amazing. If I turn off Flash I can get a really long time from my computer. I bought my MBP in June and it has been amazing ever since. I have even upgraded the RAM to 8GB and replaced the HDD with SSD. Even better! And the trackpad is made from the blood of Jesus. It's amazing and I will never be able to use anything else. Not even a normal mouse.

 

[rmbrown09]

It's pointless defending myself when some forum members are accusing me of being a "troll", but I'll say that I'm not. I've called my local store and have not been helped since I bought it online, and I've called Apple Care and they refuse to do anything other than have me send it in. This specific computer hasn't been repaired 10 times, I was referring to my entire Macbook Pro history. My Macs have been sent in ten times.

I suppose I'll attempt to call Applecare tomorrow and request a refund. I don't WANT another Apple Product. They've all gotten extremely hot for me. Bad luck? Maybe, but I've got several friends with similar issues. I think I'm just less apt to deal with it than others.

You are in the minority. I would bet you 1,000,000 dollars that if you got a replacement MBP today it would run just fine. Understanding you are the minority in this matter is very important because, Apple truly does have great customer service and great computers in general.

Going to Dell or HP because you had a prior bad experience would be foolish. But go ahead and see how that goes I guess.

 

[NickZac]

Furthermore, your MacBook Pro is not the biggest pile of crap; I have IBS and trust me, when you get to the 'biggest' of 'crap', it is nothing like a MacBook Pro.

 

[aristobrat]

I suppose I'll attempt to call Applecare tomorrow and request a refund. I don't WANT another Apple Product. They've all gotten extremely hot for me.

Have all of your replacement MacBook Pros been of the pre-unibody, 2007 Santa Rosa model? I remember from my experience with mine (and virtually every professional review of them), they did run hot.

The unibody design of the last few years are way, way cooler.

 

[aristobrat]

Oh and Target disk mode for the win to get his data off. If not, yank the drive and stick it in a caddy. It's not rocket science.

Oh, if he's got a pre-unibody 2007 Santa Rosa MacBook Pro, telling him to just yank the drive is a joke. It doesn't require a rock scientist, but it's nothing that the average person is going to want to do -- 13 steps that basically involves disassembling the entire notebook!
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/...-A1226-and-A1260-Hard-Drive-Replacement/670/1

 

[MagicBoy]

Oh, if he's got a pre-unibody 2007 Santa Rosa MacBook Pro, telling him to just yank the drive is a joke. It doesn't require a rock scientist, but it's nothing that the average person is going to want to do -- 13 steps that basically involves disassembling the entire notebook!
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/...-A1226-and-A1260-Hard-Drive-Replacement/670/1

Thanks, I was aware of that. Didn't exactly mean it literally!

I had an original spec MBP for a number of years and swapped the drive a couple of times in that period. There's a lot of screws but it's nothing the local computer shop couldn't sort out if his data is *that* valuable.

 

[jake.f]

Minecraft does cause a massive spike in temps however...

 

[mdatwood]

I've called my local store and have not been helped since I bought it online, and I've called Apple Care and they refuse to do anything other than have me send it in.

Your local Apple store should be able to give you all the options that calling AppleCare gives you. I've bought all my macs online and have taken them to the store to get them fixed a few times. Not once have they erased my drive. They do ask if I have it backed up because it *may* be erased if needed. I'm sure they try to avoid it though.

I suppose I'll attempt to call Applecare tomorrow and request a refund. I don't WANT another Apple Product. They've all gotten extremely hot for me. Bad luck? Maybe, but I've got several friends with similar issues. I think I'm just less apt to deal with it than others.

110C is hot, but all laptops today run pretty hot because of the power they are trying to pack into them. You might want to check your environment before buying another brand and ending up with the same issues.

And just so you know your experiences are not the norm. My friend still uses my old G4 powerbook, my mom is rocking my old SR MBP, and I'm on a i7 MBP. The G4 powerbook has been flawless as has the i7. The SR eventually needed the nvidia fix that every laptop made during that time needed.

 

[Intell]

I find the 110C very hard to believe. All Core Duo and newer Intell based CPUs have a hard coded safety switch that turns them off when they hit 200F/~97C.

 

[docal97]

I have never heard of anyone getting 5 replacements in a 3 year period. I am actually surprised that this would be true and that Apple would actually do such a thing. What would the odds be of someone getting 5 different laptops that are all defective?

I really would be interested in knowing what issues each of the laptops had that warranted replacements. I am not saying the OP made up what he posted, but it does seem quite strange. And I highly doubt that Apple will be refunding his money after 3 years.

 

[rmbrown09]

I find the 110C very hard to believe. All Core Duo and newer Intell based CPUs have a hard coded safety switch that turns them off when they hit 200F/~97C.

I don't know about that. I had some issues with my i5 that when I would game natively in OS X (Counter Strike) my fans would not only not speed up to keep the temperatures down, but shut off completely. I would play for about 5 minutes when my FPS would get cut in half. I watched my temps and when my CPU hit 110C, it would just seemingly down clock itself and kill power to the GPU.

I never had it shut off though.

 

[WardC]

I owned a 2.4GHz Santa Rosa MacBook Pro with the 8600M and it never gave me one problem whatsoever. Sold it last year on eBay for about $810 with 4GB of RAM.

 

[ChristopherM]

So a guy has a terrible experience and everyone just wants to put it down as fake. That's taking the rose coloured glasses of fandom to weird places.

I have no idea why my last post vanished either. Unless this board is now censoring.

 

[NickZac]

So a guy has a terrible experience and everyone just wants to put it down as fake. That's taking the rose coloured glasses of fandom to weird places.

I have no idea why my last post vanished either. Unless this board is now censoring.

RLY. Half a dozen MBP replacements which were all faulty? If it was 1 computer this thread would have been different, but half a dozen? Was he using them in the shower? Did he power it with a car battery? Something isn't right.

 

[GGJstudios]

I have no idea why my last post vanished either. Unless this board is now censoring.

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[ChristopherM]

Nick, it could be just terribly bad luck. It really could be.

GGJ, I did not call anybody anything. I think I understand simple manners.

 

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[Erasmus]

Assuming this is the truth (I don't really care either way):

1) Manufacturing processes aren't perfect. Apple likely sell millions per year. Therefore, even if a couple of percent have a few problems, statistically, someone's going to get burned with a string of bad ones.

2) So what if the CPU hits 110C? I can get my SR MBP to hit 100C before the fans kick in, and I've never touched fan control software. Guess what? It still works fine. Bump up the fans a notch with SMCfancontrol, and you'll be under 80C constantly.

3) Bitching about your bad experiences to us does nothing to help your situation, so why bother? It's also not likely to convince any of us to not buy Apple products.

 

[Mactrillionaire]

It sounds to me like your CPU is overheating (not cooling properly) and its protection feature is kicking in (which would shut off the computer to prevent damage to the computer). You shouldn't ignore this problem as it can result in other damage that might not be covered by warranty (which is why you are having to do other frequent repairs).

The best way to test if it is a CPU overheating issue is to run a very CPU intensive program and see if it causes the computer to shut down. If that doesn't cause a shut down within a few minutes, the next place to look to is the power supply; however, you would not ordinarily expect to have an overheating issue if it was just a failing power supply.

 

[VictoriaStudent]

It's pointless defending myself when some forum members are accusing me of being a "troll", but I'll say that I'm not. I've called my local store and have not been helped since I bought it online, and I've called Apple Care and they refuse to do anything other than have me send it in. This specific computer hasn't been repaired 10 times, I was referring to my entire Macbook Pro history. My Macs have been sent in ten times.

I suppose I'll attempt to call Applecare tomorrow and request a refund. I don't WANT another Apple Product. They've all gotten extremely hot for me. Bad luck? Maybe, but I've got several friends with similar issues. I think I'm just less apt to deal with it than others.

pardon me, but. ....

I am a little skeptical about this story.

 

[badcrc32]

This works

You should have demanded a replacement after the third repair. Like the previous poster said, sorry about your poor experience but you are in the minority.

I demanded a new one, and they didnt argue after having a series of logic board failures.

 

[GGJstudios]

Apple likely sell millions per year.

Over 1.3 million Macs per month:

... for the three-month period ended December 25, 2010 ... Apple sold 4.13 million Macs during the quarter, a 23 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter.

 

[milbournosphere]

There's only one laptop that would work for this guy. I pull my previous suggestion, and put forward the Panasonic Toughbook. He'd have to shoot it to kill it.

 

[fitzylar]

MacBook Pro = Scrap metal

I bought my first Apple MacBook Pro in Janaury 2012 at a cost of £2370. Since then I have had it replaced 4 times with brand new macbooks. The hard drive failed in every case. At first they just replaced the hard drive, so really I've had 5 hard drives and four Mac books from January 22nd to May 11th 2012. In the end I asked for my money back. I will never ever again touch an Apple Mac computer. After they gave me my money back which was nearly £2700 due to periferals, I walked across the road and bought a Windows Laptop for a fraction of the price. So far it is working perfectly..