Week 22 Macbook, not an open and shut[down] case…
Well, here I am.. in good company it seems. The cursed random black screen of nothing.
The Apple center in Adelaide has alway been good to me with my 15″ powerbook, and they have been pretty thorough systematically pulling my Macbook to bits: reseated memory, every HW test known to man, internal and external disks, batteries, PROM’s firmware…….. to no avail. My case is now “escalated” to Apple. The tech folk are watching the forums, the blogs and the “partner / service” bulletins from Apple. They now have more that one Macbook displaying the same symptoms here in Adelaide – and given the inconclusive trials and tribulations from around the globe, they’re not sure that simply ordering new logic boards etc… is going to solve anything.
One thought could be that Apple are going to have to rev their logic boards and PMU’s (which unlike the MacBook Pro, are integrated).
Now, I work for an IT hardware vendor, and I’ve seen complicated HW problems before, and they’re not always easy to solve…
but after 2 weeks without my beloved Macbook, I’ve got my fingers crossed that Apple are close to a fix on this one! (and I’m guessing I’m not alone!)
- jd
Adelaide, Australia.
August 31st, 2006 at 3:20 pm
My 3 month old macbook has the same problems. many times a day it goes down. I.t is my first mac, and I realy regret I did not by a PC instead. In top of the above mentiond problem, the fan is on almost all time, even from the biginning and yesterday it also began to freeze. The noice is almost as bad as on my rather old stationary PC. My daugter was going to by a macbook to, but now I surtenly will advise her not to!
LR Denmark
August 31st, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Hi Adelaide.
i have the same problemes with my 3 month old macbook, I will never, never by a mac again. It is my first and I rearly regret I did not by a PC. One of the reasons I bougt a new computer was that the old one makes a lot of noice, this makes almost more! The fan seems to go al the time, even from the biginning on top of all this it began to freze yesterday. I will never recomand anyone to by a Macbook!