Problems

[hiohokaybye]

Do you have tons of problems on your macbooks or other macs?

 

[hiohokaybye]

Problem

there are problems going on on my macbook, my spotlight wont work, sometimes the computer wont turn on, and my Mail wont response... Grrr...

 

[Evermore]

i have a mbp and it works perfect...all the time

 

[fyrman22]

My spotlight crahes a lot. The the menubar, dock and icons will dissapear and pop back up. Its driving me nuts and every time I go in to the apple store I cant get it to do it in front of them. But it has been in for repair on 4 other issues. Twice for random shutdowns. Once to replace the case that was peeling off. and the last time I tried to do a reinstall it crashed and even the apple guy couldnt figure out how to reinstall the OS it wouldnt let you pick the hard drive as the destination. I called Apple Care & Apple said they can't justify giving me a replacement at this time. I should have hung on to my iBook that thing was like a tank. For the most part I like my MacBook. I just wish they would fix it or replace it. This is my 4th apple and it has given me the most issues.

 

[ToddG]

My MBP works well but not perfectly.

I've had it for ten weeks and I've had five kernel panics ... that's a lot more often than any of my PC's ever crashed. The common theme every time has been that Parallels, MSIE (6 or 7 it happened with both), and Safari were all running.

The most recent panic, which happened earlier today, caused a lot of my menu items to disappear when the computer was re-booted.

Other than that, I've been incredibly happy with it. The panics haven't caused me to lose any significant work (seems like just about every program is automatically saving a backup file and restoring it automatically on start-up) and it's about a two minute process to get everything back up and running.

 

[nukemm]

My Mini and my MacBook Pro both run great. No major problems with either, the only problem with my Mini is that I don't have enough RAM.

 

[MacHeadCase]

An old iBook G4, an old iMac G4 and the newest of the bunch, an iMac G5 all run great, no problems whatsoever.

 

[Jeff]

You can see all the Macs I have in my signature, and never had a problem with any of them.

 

[hiohokaybye]

My MBP works well but not perfectly.

I've had it for ten weeks and I've had five kernel panics ... that's a lot more often than any of my PC's ever crashed. The common theme every time has been that Parallels, MSIE (6 or 7 it happened with both), and Safari were all running.

The most recent panic, which happened earlier today, caused a lot of my menu items to disappear when the computer was re-booted.

Other than that, I've been incredibly happy with it. The panics haven't caused me to lose any significant work (seems like just about every program is automatically saving a backup file and restoring it automatically on start-up) and it's about a two minute process to get everything back up and running.

wut does mbp stand for??

 

[ToddG]

mbp = MacBook Pro

What does "wut" mean? :ninja:

 

[Audio.Trench]

I don't have any problems with mine.. Except my G4 froze, and won't show video (hoipefully just a toasted video card that is getting replaced next week).

With my Powerbook.. When I first got it (2nd hand from an Apple-reseller), it had a 30min battery life, boot-time was horrid (5 plus minutes), and the light-ring around the power connector would flicker. Also, the cd-rw/dvd drive wouldn't read all disks.

Took it back, found out the hard drive had bad-sectors and was dying, as was the AC adaptor, and the cd-rw/dvd drive was toast.

They replaced the battery, ac adaptor, hard drive, and cd-rw/dvd drive under warranty for free, now it works amazingly.

 

[Carol247]

mbp = MacBook Pro

What does "wut" mean? :ninja:

Todd G, you are just too funny! Thanks for the laugh!

I haven't had one bit of trouble with my imac (works like a dream), of course I've only had it about 2 months (knock on wood).

 

[Reel1]

Not a bit of trouble on either of mine. They both work great

 

[Kash]

Macs have problems? :bomb:

 

[kilo15]

ONLY PROBLEM I HAVE HAD IS THAT THE DOCK DISAPPEARS. When this happens I need to manually open the dock or restart. Its a bit of a nuisance but has only happened twice.

 

[RNDdave]

So far I've had a couple of teething problems - it's new to me and I guess I am more likely to be the cause of the problems I've had.

However I think my macbook is great and it is very much loved in its' new home.

Now my iPod - that's another matter currently stuck after I tried to reset it - think it's broken.... - again the probs are very likely the result of user error - new toys - but I'm still loving it very much.

Ok iPod is now fixed as well - strange - it wouldn't update my pod casts and kept giving me errors error -48(in iTunes) so I did the reset thing - saw the apple and then it said do not disconnect stayed like this for well over an hour. Got sick of waiting so just did the reset thing again - saw the apple and then iTunes recognised it straight away - updated my pod casts and now all is well - like I said earlier - this is very much likely to be user error.

 

[CarlConti08]

except for a sound failure in the first week of purchasing my macbook, i've had ZERO problems. The sound failure was only a very slight problem since all i had to do was go up to the apple store i bought it at, show them the problem, and get a new one.

 

[iSebastianGrey]

I've only had one problem... Granted, it's a slightly big problem, but nothing that patience won't solve.