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- MBP
It was a year and a half ago I bought my MacBook Pro 15" laptop in Hangzhou, China - having worked 14 hour days for six months to pay for it.
It was 2 months ago I set up my own business here in Bangkok as a wedding/event videographer and started shooting my first assignment for a rich Australian man celebrating a week long 40th birthday.
I use i-movies and I use it very well, but sadly when the project exceeded 25 minutes it started to judder and stutter in the timeline, and for the past week, Thailands top Apple experts have tried everything to resolve the problem - reinstalling, changing machines (it is smoothy as silk on even lower spec machines) and even upgrading to Leopard, but it is a mystery and my local Apple rep has reached the conclusion that I am one of the unlucky ones who got one of the few MacBook pros of 2006 that couldn't handle anything ambitious in i-movie.
Due to the confidence installed in me regarding Apple and their popularity with those in the media industry, I didn't sign up to Applecare, though this was also down to the fact that I move around a lot and do not have a credit card.
I will collect my MBP tomorrow minus Photoshop and FCP (the original disks were stolen during an office burgalry in Hong Kong early this year) and so now, instead of completing my customers job, my first job, and enjoying a nice Christmas and prosperous new year with new work to look forward to (my customer knows plenty of potential customers) - I have enough money to survive for about two weeks if I am careful and then nothing.
I invested with confidence a machine that SHOULD be capable of utilising my only talent to produce a full length wedding or party movie for a customer, but unluckily for me I got a duff model and there's nothing I can do about it.
Apple has ruined my business, I have nothing but more problems to look forward to and I can only imagine the extravagant Christmas Steve Jobs will be enjoying.
I was so proud to be an Apple owner 18 months ago, I stood proud against the PC nay sayers who told me Apple were over rated, so you can imagine how dissapointed, angry and let down I feel by this company.
I don't know what I wish to achieve from this post, but I would like to ask you reading now - what would you do in my position?
It was 2 months ago I set up my own business here in Bangkok as a wedding/event videographer and started shooting my first assignment for a rich Australian man celebrating a week long 40th birthday.
I use i-movies and I use it very well, but sadly when the project exceeded 25 minutes it started to judder and stutter in the timeline, and for the past week, Thailands top Apple experts have tried everything to resolve the problem - reinstalling, changing machines (it is smoothy as silk on even lower spec machines) and even upgrading to Leopard, but it is a mystery and my local Apple rep has reached the conclusion that I am one of the unlucky ones who got one of the few MacBook pros of 2006 that couldn't handle anything ambitious in i-movie.
Due to the confidence installed in me regarding Apple and their popularity with those in the media industry, I didn't sign up to Applecare, though this was also down to the fact that I move around a lot and do not have a credit card.
I will collect my MBP tomorrow minus Photoshop and FCP (the original disks were stolen during an office burgalry in Hong Kong early this year) and so now, instead of completing my customers job, my first job, and enjoying a nice Christmas and prosperous new year with new work to look forward to (my customer knows plenty of potential customers) - I have enough money to survive for about two weeks if I am careful and then nothing.
I invested with confidence a machine that SHOULD be capable of utilising my only talent to produce a full length wedding or party movie for a customer, but unluckily for me I got a duff model and there's nothing I can do about it.
Apple has ruined my business, I have nothing but more problems to look forward to and I can only imagine the extravagant Christmas Steve Jobs will be enjoying.
I was so proud to be an Apple owner 18 months ago, I stood proud against the PC nay sayers who told me Apple were over rated, so you can imagine how dissapointed, angry and let down I feel by this company.
I don't know what I wish to achieve from this post, but I would like to ask you reading now - what would you do in my position?