Comments on: not just MacBook

By: yoink

yoink — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:30:17 +0000

This is scary. I am definitely questioning my switch to Apple with these stories. While I opted for the three year protection plan, it doesn’t bode well when a company is having so many issues and won’t fess up and do what’s necessary.

By: Jay Edelman

Jay Edelman — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:38:24 +0000

oh… postscript

This only started happening after I got the battery replaced in that big recall a few months ago!!!

jjj

By: Jay Edelman

Jay Edelman — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:37:19 +0000

Hi….

I’ve been having this problem, too, on my Titanium PowerBook. Like the others, it only happens when it is running off battery. I can then have problems turning the machine back on, though it’s usually resolved after I’ve removed the battery and put it back in.

Thanks for letting me vent,

jjj

By: olliickle

olliickle — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:39:47 +0000

test

By: olliickle

olliickle — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 22:05:38 +0000

Me too, an iMac G5 this time, shuts down randomly after a minute or a couple of hours.
This has been happening over the last few months. When I am able to get to an Apple shop some hours away I’ll take it in but no guarantee it will be fixed.
I’ll stick to my winbox for serious computing.
My iBook had its battery replaced and nowe is starting to split around the screen casing, more bother.
Don’t ever buy a mac!

By: alex hetherington

alex hetherington — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:59:46 +0000

This is my issue also; my PowerBook is currently in a little mac hospital here in Scotland. Apple don’t have a store here. Obviously this is an increasing problem for Apple as I am reading more and more related articles and calls, nay pleads for help. The narcolepsy, it’s not only hugely frustrating but actually shocking since it destroys the train of thought when working on the computer, hardly an aid to the creative process that Apple have based their reputation, marketing strategy and corporate identity on. For the first time in my life I feel utterly cheated by an organization who have sold me an idea of propelling my creativity through technology, when that technology is deeply flawed. That Apple have on their web site home page a list of genius copy writing teasers on what a great job macs do and how they JUST WORK is tanatamount to misrepresentation. Adding this issue to their battery problems and IPod fiasco, perhaps it’s time to reconsider the creative narrative and kidnapping of creative ideologies that Apple have so successfully achieved. These geniuses at Apple just seem like a bunch of stoners, certainly the man I spoke to at Apple UK was more interested in the spelling of my home address that the problem, stating that it would cost me 35.00GBP just to run through some options clearly stated online at their own web site. This computer cost me more that 1700GBP which i think i would have been better spending on charity, burning to smoke cigars or using to wipe my ass.

To clarify - the issue is not about a faulty computer as such, after all to be realistic it is just a computer, jeez there’s a war in Iraq and people are dying, the issue is with APPLE and their theft of the notion of creativity and technology. Macs don’t work, they are flawed, the technology is corrupt because the machines are flawed. I think as a community of global creatives we can be creative without MAC and we need to tell them this. It just wont do anymore; we deserve and need better. I don’t want some idiots in California reminding me of my creative potential and abilities; I want them to make a product that works. I’m the creative not them.

But what to do?

Suggestions?

By: meowma

meowma — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:15:03 +0000

That’s right, it’s affecting PowerBooks also. My PowerBook G4 1.67GHz, purchased only a little over a year ago (yup, out of warranty), is having narcoleptic fits as I write this. It’s like it’s become River Phoenix’s character in My Own Private Idaho. I just got home from the Apple Store, where the genius told me he’s “getting a lot of this exact problem,” and that I would need the logic board replaced. I disconnected the sensor for the trackpad temp sensor, to no avail. I’m not even getting high readings on my Temperature Monitor; the PowerBook is narc-ing out anyway.

Since I’m out of warranty, I could pay the estimated $350 this would cost me, but from what I’m reading on so many message boards, it’s a widespread problem, and getting the logic board replaced doesn’t guarantee repair. What to do?

Meanwhile I’m dead in the water. I called Apple today, and basically they disavowed me. They wouldn’t even verify the time I had to send it in, under warranty, for them to replace something causing the screen to black out.

In the words of Charlie Brown, “Bother.”