Comments on: What are you all complaining about!

By: J-Pop

J-Pop — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:04:03 +0000

I’m torn. My Macbook is a big disapointment. It is noisy, discolored, crashes intermitantly, and now the battery is dead. My wife has a 12″ ibook which has never given us any trouble and I still have one of the first 300MHZ tangerine ibooks which I upgraded with a 40Gig hard drive and OS X. It’s faster than my 2GHZ Windows Laptop . We also have a mac mini which is bulletproof. It only seemed natural that the Macbook should be as good or better. Not so. No more new macs for me. I’ll try to find a used powerbook G4 and ride out the storm.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:58:25 +0000

Wow. Good for you. Give it some time. I was the same way when I first bought my mac. After multiple hard drive crashes, discoloring, CD drive breakage, logic board failures, I couldn’t take it anymore. I have a Windows laptop. Yeah, yeah, the OS isn’t as good, but a) any problem that I have is directly related to something that I have screwed up and b) the shell is super sturdy.

By: Chris from germany

Chris from germany — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:22:33 +0000

Hi!
I am pretty thankfull for this site! I google’d and youtube’d a lot these days as I am planing on “changing to the apple site” … In fact I wanted to order it this week.

As I was watching several vids on youtube about this shutdown thing I really got scared and wanted to get infos about this! And it is an issue! As I decided to pay like 20% more than a comparable Windows-Notebook costs, I REAALLY expect Quality (as I was sure to get it from apple).
And even OSX and in all its briliance (my pal got a G4 ibook and let me play with it) does not justify the higher price!

So thank you very much for this site! At least I know what I am preparing to and how I would have to react. Hopefully apple will fix it…

As this site shows at the top: It cant be accepted, that apple now rides on the wave of success and does the same sdoopid errors like Microsoft & Co and throw half-done products on the market just because “mac is so sexy” …

By: Irv Washington

Irv Washington — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:32:58 +0000

Wow, not only a switcher but an immediate Apple fanboy with absolute dedication to the cause. Impressive.

It never ceases to amaze me that people treat Apple like a religion. Look, they make nice hardware and software; but they are not a benevolent identity. They are trying to make a buck, sometimes at the cost of their customers. Face it. The minority you speak of was disenfranchised at the time the problems were rampant (the figure being throw about was 30% of all the initial intel laptop products lines didn’t have reported problems – although not all were anywhere near as serious as the shutdown issue.) Yes the problem is mostly fixed, but that doesn’t mean some poor sap is out there with a failing Macbook feeling all alone in the world.

The next time you visit http://www.mytoiletisbroken.com it’s probably best not to post how yours is working.