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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..:)

And I bought four Apple notebooks and one iMac since 2004 and none ever crapped out like yours, only the iBook got its logic board replaced after the infamous 18 months.
Seems you just have crappy luck and you are not meant to use a Mac. You would have been unhappy anyway.
 
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..:)

Never say never.....
 
Yeah man. Flash is like Kyrptonite to Macs. Fans immediately start going bananas and temperatures increase. Nuts.
 
What model is your machine?

I feel like the MC371 series will be Apple's next recall. See here. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1338136/

He is in the minority. Most people check their email, facebook, eat something, read slashdot or a tech blog, look at the news, etc for the first few minutes of their machine being on before they get to the processor intensive work, because the processor intensive work is often intensive to the user as well. Video editing requires the user do something. Compiling code requires the user be coding something. Most people like to screw around for the first ten minutes on the computer before they actually get to work. Some people make a phone call or use the bathroom after hitting the power button. Most people make it outside the first ten minutes without high CPU usage. So, most people are not going to fall victim to an overheating machine whose fans do not turn on for the first few minutes of the laptop being on.

The few people who do blast out the gate, two minutes into their machine being on and stress it 100% will find themselves with a lot of dead Macbook Pros if it is this particular logic board. I have confirmed my findings on over 30 2010 15.4" boards at this time. The fans will not go on over a certain RPM until the machine has been on for a while, regardless of what the temperature sensor reports. I have an app that can run before the OS boots that stresses the CPU 100%, so in under 10 seconds after I hit the power button I can put the CPU at full load. It kills the board everytime with the fan plugged into the board.

As a repair shop tech, I don't complain. More work for us! If Apple foregoes BGA soldering and comes up with some proprietary method to attach the CPU to the board, I will complain then. I haven't checked to see if this has changed in a 2011 model.

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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.

On a Thinkpad, the fans turn on based on the temperature sensor, not based on the amount of time the machine has been on. He likely would not kill a Thinkpad(or an older Macbook Pro)

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It never ceases to amaze me how after one or two (or three or even four) bad experiences with a company, the consumer vows to spend his entire life as a crusade against that company, despite the overwhelmingly positive experiences that 99.1% of other consumers have reported.

I had an ASUS gaming laptop with the 8800m that kept overheating (CPU and GPU), and it was eventually a known problem that developed with some of those models. Am I right to conclude that ASUS generally makes unreliable junk? No, I would be narrow-minded to believe that in the face of strong evidence to the contrary --since ASUS is consistently ranked as one the most reliable computer manufacturers.

Every company has made a lemon at some point or another. I'm as close as one can get to a Thinkpad spokesperson without being one, and I admit they have made some awful models. The fan on the T41 being one. Every major company has a few lemons.

I just find it interesting how many Apple has. heh.

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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.

I have a strong feeling he was getting to 100% CPU usage before the ten minute mark on each one, killing each CPU on each board as each board he was given would suffer from the same defect. Or "feature" , depends how you look at it. :D
 
Every company has made a lemon at some point or another. I'm as close as one can get to a Thinkpad spokesperson without being one, and I admit they have made some awful models. The fan on the T41 being one. Every major company has a few lemons.

I just find it interesting how many Apple has. heh.

Our place still has a number of T41s going strong after 7+ years, that said I think they're the last of the Greenock built machines. The T41/T42 are virtually bulletproof, other than the odd failing GPU. Now the fans in the T43? They're failing in droves at about 5 years old. You know it's coming due to the hairdryer level noise it's making!

5 years is excellent for any other Windows laptop, rubbish for a ThinkPad. I dread to think how long my T420 will last...
 
Our place still has a number of T41s going strong after 7+ years, that said I think they're the last of the Greenock built machines. The T41/T42 are virtually bulletproof, other than the odd failing GPU. Now the fans in the T43? They're failing in droves at about 5 years old. You know it's coming due to the hairdryer level noise it's making!

5 years is excellent for any other Windows laptop, rubbish for a ThinkPad. I dread to think how long my T420 will last...

Agree with the T41 assessment. Have several t41 still working great after 7 years (well OS reinstalls, but hardware great overall - some hinges, some clips, cases carck under the touchpad). They are still one of the last/best 4:3 laptops and vertical screen resolution is better than most of the 16:9 laptops.
 
I am sorry to hear of all these horror stories. But you have got to remember that while these are premium products they are still mass produced and there maybe problems. That being said at least in the case of the OP Apple should have at the very least offered him a replacement computer as his was quite clearly defective and he has every right to be pissed off. I would go in and speak to a manager and explain my case they may still be willing to work with you! I wish you the best of luck in whatever you decide to do just don't give up yet all hope is not lost!
 
I probably got the T number wrong. I remember a 5 year old thinkpad with fans that failed left and right.

That would likely be the T43 as it fits the timeframe. My employer purchased them in 2005/2006. We bought them until they stopped manufacture as we used the T4x docking stations extensively for hotdesking and the T60 series required a new design.
 
And why not clone your data to another hard drive/back it up/time machine?

Then tell apple that you want a brand new computer? I am sure they will listen. I think you are getting stuck on the losing your data part. You most likely can't argue with them about that.

Backup your data then fight to get a new machine/new model.

Didn't read all the other posts. Just thought I would post my "easier" solution
 
16 month old thread, still manages to troll people who don't check the original date.
 
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