Buying advice...Aluminum MacBook
Hi all,
I have an old PowerBook G4, and I?m really jonesing for a new Mac, specifically the new aluminum MacBook. I know the new MacBooks and MBPs have been out for a little less than a month, but for those of you who have been religiously following Apple products for quite awhile, do you have an early sense of how many users are reporting issues compared to previous first revision products from Apple?
I know some users are having trackpad issues, but Apple is already indicating they will have a software fix soon, so this should be moot for my decision. Also, some users are having issues with their fans making more noise than others. Obviously this will be a hardware fix for the effected users. I just don't know if the reports of issues are fewer than previous products.
I am a little gun shy after having a bad experience with a first revision iMac G5. I got it as soon as they came out and it was plagued with the noisy fan issue. I am hoping that given the new design and manufacturing process that Apple may have found a way to minimize first revision problems. I know the white Macbooks are really solid, and I would this maturing process will likely carry over and benefit the new MacBooks.
Does there seem to be fewer angry people, or more, or about the same as previous products after a month? Any comparisons or perceptions from previous years would be helpful.
Thanks,
DJ
I have an old PowerBook G4, and I?m really jonesing for a new Mac, specifically the new aluminum MacBook. I know the new MacBooks and MBPs have been out for a little less than a month, but for those of you who have been religiously following Apple products for quite awhile, do you have an early sense of how many users are reporting issues compared to previous first revision products from Apple?
I know some users are having trackpad issues, but Apple is already indicating they will have a software fix soon, so this should be moot for my decision. Also, some users are having issues with their fans making more noise than others. Obviously this will be a hardware fix for the effected users. I just don't know if the reports of issues are fewer than previous products.
I am a little gun shy after having a bad experience with a first revision iMac G5. I got it as soon as they came out and it was plagued with the noisy fan issue. I am hoping that given the new design and manufacturing process that Apple may have found a way to minimize first revision problems. I know the white Macbooks are really solid, and I would this maturing process will likely carry over and benefit the new MacBooks.
Does there seem to be fewer angry people, or more, or about the same as previous products after a month? Any comparisons or perceptions from previous years would be helpful.
Thanks,
DJ
Comments
Are there seriously no opinions on this? Is everyone feeling ok? Chicken soup perhaps?
Give it time people have only ahd theirs for a week or so, so there not busing on forums right now...
From what ive heard they seem to be pretty damned finly tuned machines...
I hope so anyway, getting mine in a couple of days...
For me, I personally feel like there are less early complaints than normal, but this might just be me trying to talk myself into buying one. I am a little biased
Other than that, no fan issues. No trackpad issues (I love the new trackpad). Those kinds of things will always be covered by warranty, though.
The logical conclusion is that if you are not going to wait for multiple months and/or rev B hardware, stop worrying and buy what you need. Even if the laptop *did* have something wrong with it, agonizing over it for a week or two before buying it does not help you.
It's hard though, because even though there will be a 1 year warranty, (and 3 years of APP for me) to cover hardware issues, I still worry about small perception issues like fan noise. As I had mentioned, my rev A iMac G5 had fan issues its whole life. Apple rotated their answers between "yes we can service it", to "no it is running within spec". Needless to say it still has fan noise issues (and a new home with my in-laws).
My major problem is with the screen, which isn't faulty as such - it's just a bad screen to begin with.
I also have a trackpad latency situation (including occasional cursor loss) and wireless dropout, but in every other way the machine is very nice to use.