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Class act by the moderator to close my thread before I even had the opportunity to respond to the various queries. I am a legitimate Mac user reporting displeasure, frustration and disappointment. I am conveying my legitimate experience. Is Mac sycophancy the only allowable form of speech on here? Is this how you treat unpopular opinion on this board?
I am not a troll. Shall I provide photgraphic proof of my claims? Do you want to see a video of Safari crashing repeatedly? Do you want to see a photograph of a completely blank ITunes right next to a list of all of the media content on my Mac Book? Do you want to see the response I received from one of my bosses apropos my butchered email? I'll gladly verify my claims, if called upon to do so.
In any case, here is my response to various questions/comments:
1) Yes, I bought the computer new in September. Yes, everything is current, including the firmware.
2) did you ever have any problems like this when you were learning to use windows? (i'm guessing yes, no matter what the pride-biased answer might be)
Do you have a problem with reading comprehension? I specifically wrote that my interest in purchasing the Mac was based partly on the IX core. Does that read remotely like anything a Windows user would write? I am not a Windows user. I haven't been a Windows user for the past 7 years. I have used Linux exclusively since 2000 (until my Mac purchase) and I can tell you that while the learning curve in Linux may be pretty steep, once things are working correctly, they always will. BTW: what does ITunes barfing, Safari crashing and Mail garbling my email all within 12 hours have to do with a learning curve? Short answer: it doesn't. Get a clue.
3) "Personaly after having macs for my whole long life (15 years) i think ur an idiot, my parents have always bought them and they are awsome"
Irony (def): Being called an idiot by a 15 year old who can't string together a coherent sentence.
4) "Your situation sounds like you bought a brand new 1974 Chevy Vega with no rings, no oil, stripped gears in the trans, no coolant, and was wired to explode. I think I'm going to discount it."
As you wish. However, you're deluding yourself if you think my complaint is the exception given the litany of production defects that the MacBook has already experienced in its short life.
5) "Try repairing you disk permissions."
It's not a disk permissions problem. Trust me, I know: I administrate two Linux servers.
6) (My personal favorite) "Hmm... not all computers are perfect right out of the box, that includes Macs. Sometimes you get a lemon and you just have to be patient."
First of all, the perfection argument is a strawman. I am not complaining about the computer being short of perfect. I am complaining about the computer going FUBAR. I am complaining about the OS having a litany of issues with Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice/NeoOffice that are nothing like I have ever experienced before in Linux or have heard/read about in Windows. Second, yes it may be just a lemon. However, I am skeptical. In any case, can you understand my frustration? I have never had so much go so wrong on a computer in such quick succession. It was startling and infuriating. It just added to my already high level of displeasure with the computer.
I am not a troll. Shall I provide photgraphic proof of my claims? Do you want to see a video of Safari crashing repeatedly? Do you want to see a photograph of a completely blank ITunes right next to a list of all of the media content on my Mac Book? Do you want to see the response I received from one of my bosses apropos my butchered email? I'll gladly verify my claims, if called upon to do so.
In any case, here is my response to various questions/comments:
1) Yes, I bought the computer new in September. Yes, everything is current, including the firmware.
2) did you ever have any problems like this when you were learning to use windows? (i'm guessing yes, no matter what the pride-biased answer might be)
Do you have a problem with reading comprehension? I specifically wrote that my interest in purchasing the Mac was based partly on the IX core. Does that read remotely like anything a Windows user would write? I am not a Windows user. I haven't been a Windows user for the past 7 years. I have used Linux exclusively since 2000 (until my Mac purchase) and I can tell you that while the learning curve in Linux may be pretty steep, once things are working correctly, they always will. BTW: what does ITunes barfing, Safari crashing and Mail garbling my email all within 12 hours have to do with a learning curve? Short answer: it doesn't. Get a clue.
3) "Personaly after having macs for my whole long life (15 years) i think ur an idiot, my parents have always bought them and they are awsome"
Irony (def): Being called an idiot by a 15 year old who can't string together a coherent sentence.
4) "Your situation sounds like you bought a brand new 1974 Chevy Vega with no rings, no oil, stripped gears in the trans, no coolant, and was wired to explode. I think I'm going to discount it."
As you wish. However, you're deluding yourself if you think my complaint is the exception given the litany of production defects that the MacBook has already experienced in its short life.
5) "Try repairing you disk permissions."
It's not a disk permissions problem. Trust me, I know: I administrate two Linux servers.
6) (My personal favorite) "Hmm... not all computers are perfect right out of the box, that includes Macs. Sometimes you get a lemon and you just have to be patient."
First of all, the perfection argument is a strawman. I am not complaining about the computer being short of perfect. I am complaining about the computer going FUBAR. I am complaining about the OS having a litany of issues with Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice/NeoOffice that are nothing like I have ever experienced before in Linux or have heard/read about in Windows. Second, yes it may be just a lemon. However, I am skeptical. In any case, can you understand my frustration? I have never had so much go so wrong on a computer in such quick succession. It was startling and infuriating. It just added to my already high level of displeasure with the computer.
