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I've had problems with so many Apple products over the years that I've stopped buying them. The last thing I bought was a 2011 MBP (hefty top line i7). Total wa
by bananas 13y ago
I've had problems with so many Apple products over the years that I've stopped buying them. The last thing I bought was a 2011 MBP (hefty top line i7). Total waste of money. It was an insurance replacement for the 2010 one that literally caught fire when a drink was spilled under the edge of it. No product should fail in that manor. Current MBP periodically white screens and hangs and you have to turn it off for an hour (nvidia GPU problem).
On my third magsafe adapter. The first one just stopped working. The second one burned out about five inches from the magsafe connector. The second one resulted in a fairly large argument at the genius (idiot) bar because it was out of the limited warranty. After explaining how dangerous this is (I'm a qualified EE) loudly in front of other customers they replaced it.
Oh and the amount of shit I've had to deal with when incompetent Apple store staff decide the only option is to nuke the machine for even the simplest software problem. Fortunately within my circle of contacts they've learned to come to me first rather than start again every time.
Back to the original point though: one exploding MBP, two dead magsafe adapters, a dead logic board in a 2006 iMac, several frayed 30 pin cables, mac mini external power supply blew up and a dead cinema display panel, file system corruption in 2 OSX releases, £200/pop repair bill for iPhones if you drop them, the joke that was the iPhone 4, iOS constant upselling, iWork being a total piece of stink, iCloud periodic data loss. Ugh.
No more. Paying a premium for this is illogical.
Buying refurb Lenovo kit and bottom end windows phones. With the leftover cash I'm throwing it at my mortgage instead. Better investment.
Edi: to add insult to injury, the alloy they use for MBP and Air machines contains nickel so any unfortunate people with a nickel sensitivity come up in blisters using these machines.
Design over engineering. That is all.
- bennyg 13y agoWell, as another data point, my MagSafe adapter from July 2007 is still operational and has never had a problem.
- eddieroger 13y agoYour mileage may vary. I've had mostly no problems with any of the Apple products I've owned over the last few decades, and for those occasions where I did, they were quick and happy to replace them - from overnight shipping of a box and next day return in the time before the Apple Store to store-based fixes with loaners.
- pfisch 13y agoThe defect rate in cameras on iphones and ipads is just through the roof. We have like 4 ipads in this office and at least 2 of them have one camera that puts out garbage quality pictures. Ditto on one of our iphones. Our old iphone 4 had serious reception issues, the 4s doesn't connect to wifi since iOS 7. Our Mac has a line of dead pixels and of course the monitor is also the desktop because that makes sense. Oh and I've gone through 1 power adapter that cost like $80 for some reason. I have lost track of how many mini display(whatever the macs use?) to hdmi cables have failed. Of course all of this stuff costs way above what it should....
- anonbanker 13y ago>> to add insult to injury, the alloy they use for MBP and Air machines contains nickel so any unfortunate people with a nickel sensitivity come up in blisters using these machines. This totally explains my wrist rashes. Thanks.
- bananas 13y agoYeah it's a total bugger. The wrist rashes might actually be the sharp edge on the front of the unit and might be posture related. This is what 2 weeks of using an MBP did to my hands as a comparison point: http://i.imgur.com/HgDquuE.jpg http://i.imgur.com/HgDquuE.jpg I put screen protectors on it in the end to stop having to touch it directly.