your bad experiences with a mac?

[rueyeet]

Wireless reception on the TiBook is every bit as terrible as they say. 😡 And I've had one GUI freeze under Jaguar, where the mouse and keyboard didn't respond and I had to restart.

Mozilla doesn't like AOL webmail either, but then neither do I, and that's not strictly an Apple problem. So I got rid of Mozilla. 😀

Other than that, no real problems since switching in late 2002. In the same period of time, the old ThinkPad I lent to my mom has had at least four or five Blue Screens of Death (it's running Win ME, poor thing).

 

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by rueyeet
Wireless reception on the TiBook is every bit as terrible as they say.

have you tried pulling out the battery and pressing the antenna outwards? apple employees actually recommend that themselves, i am told. my reception has never been all that bad. i do get into situations, but i usually find that even the plastic enclosure PC laptops have the same problems.

 

[MetallicPenguin]

The only problems I've had with my Mac is that I always did something wrong like once a month (or I used to anyway), and I have ended up going through 5-6 reformats. But I guess that's good in some ways, because I love that new computer smell. 😀

Ithink that was mainly because I am a switcher and i was getting used to the Macintosh and stuff.

 

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by MetallicPenguin
I think that was mainly because I am a switcher and i was getting used to the Macintosh and stuff.

yeah, i have done maybe 3 or 4 myself in the 8 months of my ownership, my first mac too. i've done it because i screwed something up, done it because i tried panther and hated it, and done it just to partition my drive (that was the first day i got it). getting used to the mac didn't take me long though... i would have screwed up my windows box if i had stuck with it too, i am sure.

 

[Das]

The only problem I've had is with my ti867. The thing rocks, but the screen seems to get thin stuttering choppy lines when playing dvds or screensavers. Is this normal? Other than that it rocks.

The only other time I've had a problem was trying to network my PC and my mac together. Nothing worked and I had to finally map my mac drive on my pc, but then the IP changes on the mac side every reboot which makes it not work. Not really Apple's fault though.

 

[vollspacken]

I once had to replace the logicboard on an iMac DV400 - my fault, it was sitting in the bright sun on my desk and got too hot...

as some people pointed out above, airport reception sucks on my tiBook...

oh, and I had this horrible harddrive crash some time ago nut apple replaced it rightaway... I should have backed the data up though 😉

that's it I think...

vSpacken

 

[ibookin']

My previous iBook 500 had 3 logic board replacements. Apple just sent me a new one after it needed yet another new logic board, and the new one came with a Combo drive that couldn't read DVDs. I haven't shipped it off yet, and am not planning to any time soon, but it is kind of annoying.

I've noticed that a lot of white iBooks have problems. My girlfriend's 800 just died (nothing on screen when machine boots up) on her, and she had previously only gotten the screen to work when the VGA adapter was plugged into the mini-VGA port. Also, it came with one of the screws on the memory door stripped, so she couldn't upgrade the memory and was stuck at 128 running OS X. Ouch. 🙁

But it's getting fixed now. 😀

 

[Pete_Hoover]

Haven't had any problems with my mac's because I can't afford one.

 

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Pete_Hoover
Haven't had any problems with my mac's because I can't afford one.

doesn't that kind of count as a bad experience in itself? although, realistically, the solution os more likely "save more money" than "whine about apple prices"--not to suggest that you were doing that...

 

[Durandal7]

-A screwy motherboard on a Powermac 7100 that needed hard resetting all the time.
-A badly designed case on a Powermac 7100 that is hard to open and even harder to put back on.
-A ridiculous procedure for hard resetting the motherboard on a Powermac 7100 that involved removing the power supply and the clock battery.
-A badly designed plug for a power supply on a Powermac 7100 that ended up having a clip break off before I could remove.
-A generally screwy graphics setup on a Powermac 7100 that required the monitor to be plugged into a primitive AV card in order to work.
-The tendancy of a Powermac 7100 to occasionally refuse to turn on.
-The case on a Powermac 7100 that never fit right and made it damn near impossible to plug in any periphials.

Not to mention the fact that I have yet to see an Apple Internal Modem function properly in any version of OS X so far (including Panther beta)

 

[Daveman Deluxe]

1) My iBook has occasional battery problems. First time, Apple gave me a new battery. Second time, I sent the iBook to them and it took them more than a week to tell me that I needed to give them my admin password. Took them another week to tell me that the guy had written the password down wrong. It was back in two days once they got the password right.

2) The little cord wrapping prong on my power adapter is broken.

3) There's a strip of gunk on my trackpad's button that coincides with where the screen bezel is when the lid is closed. There's a strip of gunk on the screen bezel that coincides with where the trackpad button is when the lid is closed. It's irritating and I haven't been able to get it off.

4) The iBook's speakers STILL suck.

Fortunately, I am otherwise very happy with my iBook. It's actually faster than my friend's PowerBook in most things. He was blown away when my computer loaded EV Nova faster than his could. The issues I have listed are really quite minor, so I'll continue to be a Jobs fanboy.

 

[WinterMute]

Just a heads up on my 17 PBook, it re-appeared today from it's second trip to germany with problems, well, I say it's back, in fact this appears to be a completely new machine with my original drive and ram installed😀

Nice one Apple, mind, I had to get really sh*tty with some poor Irish girl on Applecare, I hate doing that, it's not her fault after all.

So, first real Apple hardware problem, and they (eventually) resolved it well.