Macbook Random Shutdown

ok, so I am at a loss - all of the sudden my wife’s airport card started seeing >50% packet loss when connecting to the wireless network in the house. What a pain in the butt! Anyone else ever see anything like this with OSX? I have the latest software from Apple but it will work sometimes, and then comes to an absolute halt.

Also, when running MacStumbler, I can only get 60 signal strength when I am less than 1 foot from our wirelss router. - oi vey! thoughts?

I bought my macbook in june with 2.0 ghz 1gb ram and 80gb hard drive. In November of ‘06 is when it all started. I was typing a research paper and was on page 8 and hadn’t saved since 4 when my laptop randomly shutdown. I was quite angry because I lost a lot of writing but I thought nothing of the crash and booted up and began working again. BIGGEST MISTAKE. All of Decemeber, February, NO crashes at all and no problems. Then it all started back up in March while I was surfing the web it shutdown. I booted her back up and decided I would call applecare if happened again. Sure enough two hours later it did. Unfortunately it was past six so I couldn’t get anyone live from applecare. The next day I had no problems but the day after I had another crash. A week then went by no problems but then the crash happened that put me over the edge. I called applecare and they asked me to check if I had upraded the firmware which I had. They then went through with me a series of tests. From doing the soft reset or whatever it is when you hold all those keys at startup. We then headed to using the install disks and going to check if there were problems. Then he had me reset or check my ram for problems. He told me that if it happned again after this to take it in to the applestore or mail it to them. Luckily I live in Chicago so getting to the store is not a problem like some of you unluckier people. In the end we didn’t find any problems for sure. When I booted my computer back up after getting off the phone everything was good. Two and a half weeks went by with no crash until TONIGHT. It happened again. I was really hoping it was fixed. Im heading off to the applestore tommorow. After that Ill inform all you what happens there. Anyone got anything I should do there or ask?

I bought my macbook in june with 2.0 ghz 1gb ram and 80gb hard drive. In November of ‘06 is when it all started. I was typing a research paper and was on page 8 and hadn’t saved since 4 when my laptop randomly shutdown. I was quite angry because I lost a lot of writing but I thought nothing of the crash and booted up and began working again. BIGGEST MISTAKE. All of Decemeber, February, NO crashes at all and no problems. Then it all started back up in March while I was surfing the web it shutdown. I booted her back up and decided I would call applecare if happened again. Sure enough two hours later it did. Unfortunately it was past six so I couldn’t get anyone live from applecare. The next day I had no problems but the day after I had another crash. A week then went by no problems but then the crash happened that put me over the edge. I called applecare and they asked me to check if I had upraded the firmware which I had. They then went through with me a series of tests. From doing the soft reset or whatever it is when you hold all those keys at startup. We then headed to using the install disks and going to check if there were problems. Then he had me reset or check my ram for problems. He told me that if it happned again after this to take it in to the applestore or mail it to them. Luckily I live in Chicago so getting to the store is not a problem like some of you unluckier people. In the end we didn’t find any problems for sure. When I booted my computer back up after getting off the phone everything was good. Two and a half weeks went by with no crash until TONIGHT. It happened again. I was really hoping it was fixed. Im heading off to the applestore tommorow. After that Ill inform all you what happens there. Anyone got anything I should do there or ask?

Like many of you out there I have had a certified “Crashbook” for the past 8 months. I bought one of the first to come out on the market last June. Kernal Panicks, random shutdowns/restarts and failing to wake up from sleep were all the order of the day. I sent my computer in twice and had 2 logic board’s replaced before I demanded a replacement. They tried to convince me it was the RAM but with some coaxing they agreed to send me a new one but this time it would be the Core 2 Duo. I am hoping that the problem is somewhat fixed in the new generation of Macbooks but as I write this I am still waiting to find out. I was told the whole process would take 4 weeks. Today is 4 weeks and one day. But, lo and behold, earlier today Purolator showed up at my door with a shiny new Macbook. Well, stressed out from using a dinosaur PC for most of the past 4 weeks and exited to get producing again, I ripped open the box and pulled out the Macbook only to find THEY HAD SENT THE WRONG ONE! Mine was a 2.0 with 80gb hd and a Superdrive and they sent me a, 1.83 with 60gb hd and a combodrive (they still make those?). So, I phone Apple and first they try to convince me this one is “functionally equivalent” to my old one and then they try to get me to send back this one and wait another 4 weeks for my computer. Well I dug my heals in and insisted they either let me keep this until the new one arrives or they refund my MasterCard for the 1449 plus tax. So, after almost an hour on the phone with Apple they agreed to let me open this one and use it until I receive the correct one. But what a head-ache! I am so close to returning to the world of PC…but I’ll give them another shot. Here’s hoping my new Macbook was worth the wait!