it’s getting worse day by day
In may 2006 i got sick of my old pc that had been able to catch all the possible viruses running XP, because it also rebooted every 20mins. I had really enough of that, so I thought it’s time to switch.
For the first days my 1,83ghz 512 ram macbook worked flawlessly, but it had a problem with running high-load apps, and even sometimes crashed. I’ve expanded the ram to 2gb, and that seemed to solve to problem. Month later it crashed once a week. About third month of usage it crashed every second day, and started to have problems with turning on after crash. SMC Firmware update took care of random shutdown problem, but since that day, starting it up became horror. Today, on the fourth month it crashes after every startup and every wakeup.
3 mins after booting it up - it’ll crash. Then it won’t start back up, so I’ve got to 10sec-beep-quarter-power it, and run it that way for an hour or so, so it won’t crash after restarting it to make it fully working. Same thing happens if it’ll sleep for more than 20 mins.
Anyway - i’m a designer. Running CS and flash on rosetta is like running them on weak G5 mac, but I can live with that. What I cannot live with is running them 1 core, 1 ghz, quarter power, like on old G3, and praying every time I wake it up.
Because it’s getting worse day by bday, tommorow i’ll take it to the service, maybe that will help.
September 17th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Why don you just TAKE IT TO APPLE AND FIX IT !???
Don’t they have Apple Stores all over?? I had problems in the past
with my Dual G5, PowerBook, etc. and took them to the Genius
Bar and it got fixed within 2 days.
Stop complaining!
September 18th, 2006 at 3:28 am
Dear Richard,
He said he is taking it to Apple, so shut up. But if he has been reading this blog, he knows that it will likely take more then two days. Maybe that was the old Apple, but the new Apple does not really care about service, my MacBook has been with them for more then three weeks and still they can not tell me when I will get it back. Many, many people have reported similar problems.
On another note, install XP and run CS under that, it is much faster.
September 18th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Yep, I completely agree James. I’m also at 3 weeks and the part is still on order.
September 19th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
First of all, I live in Poland, where’s no such thing as Apple - we’ve got only Apple IMC, which is about as helpful as lady at the counter in TESCO.
Thanks for the advice with CS, never thought about that, gogomcgee
September 24th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
why don’t you just switchback?