Ecky-Thump

I'm now the happy owner of the new model Air.

13" MBP desperately needs an upgrade to the better keyboard and a touch ID.

The screen, trackpad, speakers and i5 on the new Air, are perfectly acceptable for the majority of users.  While that extra battery life is a big bonus.

"In a surprising moment of moral courage Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the newspaper and a man who had himself invested in Theranos, rejected a personal, in-person appeal from Holmes to block the publication of Carreyrou's first piece"

Since he was probably one ripped-off and pissed-off investor, I think revenge may also be a possibility.

"This isn't an exhaustive list. The Apple devout surely remember others."

Indeed.  The Macintosh Plus 240v edition had a capacitor on its power supply board that would pop, but generally the Macs of the 80's and 90's were pretty reliable.  But from 2000 the issues became rather rampant.  There was the Blue G4 tower, where the power button would just glow and not switch on (a daughter board on the logic board I think, but can't quite remember), then all those G5 iMacs and G4 eMacs with the dodgy expanding capacitors.  Let's not forget the iBooks with the failing video processors (and encircling the chip with a plastic support didn't help much), still you were probably sick enough of the old-sweat smell coming from those machines, that you wouldn't want it fixed. Slightly better luck to buy the Titanium Powerbook, with its fall-apart titanium casing and cracking hinge.  At least it's replacement only had issues with the lower RAM port failing.  The iBook's replacement, the MacBook initially had a dodgy heatsink, where it would switch off because it though it was overheating, that normally happened well before the top case and display bezel plastics started cracking.  Never buy a computer that includes a fabric strip to soak up the leaks from the liquid-cooled processor (I'm looking at you G5 PowerMac),  The articles mentions the MacBook Pro video issues, but doesn't mention the iMacs and PowerMacs failing video cards (yet more repair programs).  The 2012 13" MacBook Pro is one the best and most reliable Apple laptops ever(i7, Thunderbolt, FW800 and USB3), but even that suffers with a random no power or charging issue, where you have to remove the bottom case and unplug the battery to make it work again.  The main issue with that machine is the tendency for the hard drive cable to fail.  Seems that running a flat cable against the bottom case, where it can get damaged by debris entering the computer is a bad idea.  You'd think they would have learnt their lesson, but the 2015 13" MacBook Pro loses use of its trackpad and keyboard, because its runs a flat cable from the trackpad to the logic board in the same way.  Anyone out their own a 27" iMac that just powers off without warning, or whose hinge fails and it flops forward?

Thank goodness I've don't repair them anymore.  Still love Apple though :-) xx

The 3G and 3GS were great phones.  But they did suffer from a large crack developing on the back from the middle of the dock and going up. 

Those models do feel great in the hand.  But I did prefer the Leica look of the 4 which also had a nicer screen.

Almost everything that was nice about the 2012 MacBook Pro has now been lost, all in the name of making it as thin as possible and the philosophy of "it just works". Reliable ports and keyboards replaced by dodgy adapters and keys that stick at the mere sight of dust. The MagSafe both protected your computer and allowed you see see its charging state from across the room. It allowed you to see when the power cycled from an SMC reset. USB C has made the MacBook even worse than before as you only get one port for both charging and data. What a bonus. Who needs a status light, because you don't need to know whether its sleeping or starting up, or giving you an error warning, because your new laptop "just works" when you open the lid. Except when it doesn't "just work". Then you're left staring at a black screen on a computer than doesn't chime, doesn't show a white screen, doesn't have a glowing apple on the display housing and doesn't light up a status LED when you switch it on or reset it and there's no MagSafe LED, so you have no idea of its charging status either. All the while wondering if that stuck spacebar is going to cost you hundreds of dollars to fix. For the money, I reckon it's better to buy a 21" iMac (which is back on-form) and a iPad.