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Hello all!
This is my first post here, and it's gonna be kinda whiny - run away now!
In all seriousness though, I wanted to post my current delemma to a forum of Mac users, and see if anyone could come up with a reason as to why I've been so unlucky with my computer...
I bought my MBP in November 2007. Within the first two weeks, I had to take it in for service. There's no other way to describe how the computer was acting other than really 'buggy'. The Mac Geniuses looked at it for a couple minutes, determined that something crazy was going on with that machine, and since I had just bought it a couple weeks before, ended up giving me a whole new MBP on the spot. I thought that was pretty awesome!
Things were fine for about four or five months, then I noticed my battery life starting to really take a hit. I brought the machine back in, and they determined that the battery did need to be replaced, so they gave me a new one.
About a month after that, my power supply for the laptop started to go. It would overheat and then shut itself off at random. Back to the store, where they tested it and determined that there was an issue - gave me a new one.
About six-seven months later, my graphics card fails completely without warning. Luckily, this was a known issue (at this point my computer was just out of warranty - I've learned my lesson on getting extended warranties now... :-/), and so my logicboard was replaced.
Two weeks later... the fan in the right side of the machine goes. Back to the store, where at this point I think they just feel sorry for me, and they replace it for free, because they're awesome. ;-)
That was about three weeks ago. Today, my battery randomly decided to act up. It's actually behaving much like my original battery did when I needed to get it replaced. When I go into system profiler, it tells me it's been cycled 74 times, has a full charge capacity of 2950 mAh, and for battery health it's saying "Check Battery". Keep in mind that this battery isn't original to the machine, and is just going on a year old. I've shut the computer down and taken the battery out to see if there was dirt or something going on, but everything looks normal. :-/ Is this battery issue expected after this age/number of cycles? Is there something else I should be checking?
So, at the end of that little rant (sorry!), has anyone had similiar experiences with a MBP? Or heard of someone with what seems like a never-ending list of issues? With all the things that have gone wrong, I almost feel like I've been sold a lemon. I take pretty good care of my computer (never been dropped, damaged, etc), so I wanna go out on a limb and say it's not me who's causing all the issues...
In the end, I still love Apple products and I would probably get another one, but I'm not gonna lie - I'm leery after this. Apple has done a wonderful job as far as fixing things up for me, but still - it's irritating to have to keep going back and forth, and sometimes losing my computer for a few days for repairs.
So, 'hi', and share with me your words of wisdom!
This is my first post here, and it's gonna be kinda whiny - run away now!
In all seriousness though, I wanted to post my current delemma to a forum of Mac users, and see if anyone could come up with a reason as to why I've been so unlucky with my computer...
I bought my MBP in November 2007. Within the first two weeks, I had to take it in for service. There's no other way to describe how the computer was acting other than really 'buggy'. The Mac Geniuses looked at it for a couple minutes, determined that something crazy was going on with that machine, and since I had just bought it a couple weeks before, ended up giving me a whole new MBP on the spot. I thought that was pretty awesome!
Things were fine for about four or five months, then I noticed my battery life starting to really take a hit. I brought the machine back in, and they determined that the battery did need to be replaced, so they gave me a new one.
About a month after that, my power supply for the laptop started to go. It would overheat and then shut itself off at random. Back to the store, where they tested it and determined that there was an issue - gave me a new one.
About six-seven months later, my graphics card fails completely without warning. Luckily, this was a known issue (at this point my computer was just out of warranty - I've learned my lesson on getting extended warranties now... :-/), and so my logicboard was replaced.
Two weeks later... the fan in the right side of the machine goes. Back to the store, where at this point I think they just feel sorry for me, and they replace it for free, because they're awesome. ;-)
That was about three weeks ago. Today, my battery randomly decided to act up. It's actually behaving much like my original battery did when I needed to get it replaced. When I go into system profiler, it tells me it's been cycled 74 times, has a full charge capacity of 2950 mAh, and for battery health it's saying "Check Battery". Keep in mind that this battery isn't original to the machine, and is just going on a year old. I've shut the computer down and taken the battery out to see if there was dirt or something going on, but everything looks normal. :-/ Is this battery issue expected after this age/number of cycles? Is there something else I should be checking?
So, at the end of that little rant (sorry!), has anyone had similiar experiences with a MBP? Or heard of someone with what seems like a never-ending list of issues? With all the things that have gone wrong, I almost feel like I've been sold a lemon. I take pretty good care of my computer (never been dropped, damaged, etc), so I wanna go out on a limb and say it's not me who's causing all the issues...
In the end, I still love Apple products and I would probably get another one, but I'm not gonna lie - I'm leery after this. Apple has done a wonderful job as far as fixing things up for me, but still - it's irritating to have to keep going back and forth, and sometimes losing my computer for a few days for repairs.
So, 'hi', and share with me your words of wisdom!