Well, the "SuperDrive" on my MacBook (white, 2GHz, 1GB of RAM) started giving me more problems than I could stand.
It was never able to burn DVDs properly. CDs burned fine, but I could never burn a disc at above 2x without the disc failing the verification process or video skipping about 11 minutes into the video. What the drive would do is, if 4x or 6x was selected for burning speed, it would spin the disc at 2x during track writing until about the 5% mark. At that point it would spin the disc up to full speed and continue writing the track. After that point, during verification, you could hear the disc spinning up and down so the drive could read through bad sectors. That is where video would start to skip and stutter as well. I had a drive that did that before on an HP system and it died after a few months of use.
Recently, the drive began to have issues reading discs. More than once I had to insert a disc 4 times for it to finally read it. Strangely enough, using those two discs later on presented no problems.
My keyboard squeaking was also driving me up the wall.
I also had a bit of a problem with the plastic on the hinge connecting the LCD to the base. It was starting to bubble a little along the back where it connects to the screen. My guess this is due to the design, seeing as how extremely hot that piece gets during regular use.
But anyway, back to my topic.
I've been reading here and at other forums. Reading how some people had their Macs gone for as long as 6 weeks!
I really hope it doesn't take that long. When the DVD drive in my HP system died, I sent it out Wednesday and they had it back to me on Friday with a new drive. Apple will have my system in a few hours. I really hope it doesn't take too long
It was never able to burn DVDs properly. CDs burned fine, but I could never burn a disc at above 2x without the disc failing the verification process or video skipping about 11 minutes into the video. What the drive would do is, if 4x or 6x was selected for burning speed, it would spin the disc at 2x during track writing until about the 5% mark. At that point it would spin the disc up to full speed and continue writing the track. After that point, during verification, you could hear the disc spinning up and down so the drive could read through bad sectors. That is where video would start to skip and stutter as well. I had a drive that did that before on an HP system and it died after a few months of use.
Recently, the drive began to have issues reading discs. More than once I had to insert a disc 4 times for it to finally read it. Strangely enough, using those two discs later on presented no problems.
My keyboard squeaking was also driving me up the wall.
I also had a bit of a problem with the plastic on the hinge connecting the LCD to the base. It was starting to bubble a little along the back where it connects to the screen. My guess this is due to the design, seeing as how extremely hot that piece gets during regular use.
But anyway, back to my topic.
I've been reading here and at other forums. Reading how some people had their Macs gone for as long as 6 weeks!
I really hope it doesn't take that long. When the DVD drive in my HP system died, I sent it out Wednesday and they had it back to me on Friday with a new drive. Apple will have my system in a few hours. I really hope it doesn't take too long
