Well if you've seen any of my previous posts, you'll know that I've had a few problems with the MacBook Pros. I'm now on my fourth 15" 2.4GHz machine.
Quick history...
1st MBP (week 23 build, Samsung LED panel)
- very noticeable yellow tint on bottom 1/3 of display panel
- constant kernel panics related to Airport.Atheros driver when running on battery power
- crooked return key
2nd MBP (week 23 build, Samsung LED panel)
- uneven backlighting on display panel, dark sections
- dead pixel centre of screen towards the bottom
- crooked return key
3rd MBP (week 23 build, Samsung LED panel)
- good display, but: major power management problems - would not hold its charge, kept discharging the battery at an abnormally fast rate during sleep and even when switched off. even when the battery was swapped out for a new one!
- rocking trackpad button that was noisy and kept sticking
- lid made a grating noise when trying to open/close it
- one of the holes in the left speaker grille not punched all the way through
- crooked return key
And now this one:
4th MBP (week 26 build, Samsung LED panel)
- perfect display! (had a little worry with the scrolling bands thing but it's fixed itself)
- no kernel panics so far!
- no battery/sleep issues so far!
The only problems I've had with this one so far are:
- A keyboard freeze when waking from deep sleep - it wouldn't work for about a minute or so
- Last night it spun a beachball and the whole system froze up such that I couldn't even force quit anything and had to restart by holding the power button down. This along with a couple of Safari crashes really pissed me off but not had any troubles since then
- I'm only getting around 2hrs 45 mins battery life - this is running on wireless with just Safari and iChat open; brightness around 3 pips from max.
Apart from the not-so-great battery life (under 3 hrs)
and the weird freeze-up it's working rather nicely, the display is awesome and it's cosmetically perfect (the return key is *still* a tad wonky but I've come to expect that!)
I've just been sitting outside in the sunshine on my roof terrace with it and this is the first notebook I've ever used where I can actually read the display outside!
LOVING IT! I think this is finally a machine I can use!
...now let's hope I haven't just jinxed anything...
Quick history...
1st MBP (week 23 build, Samsung LED panel)
- very noticeable yellow tint on bottom 1/3 of display panel
- constant kernel panics related to Airport.Atheros driver when running on battery power
- crooked return key
2nd MBP (week 23 build, Samsung LED panel)
- uneven backlighting on display panel, dark sections
- dead pixel centre of screen towards the bottom
- crooked return key
3rd MBP (week 23 build, Samsung LED panel)
- good display, but: major power management problems - would not hold its charge, kept discharging the battery at an abnormally fast rate during sleep and even when switched off. even when the battery was swapped out for a new one!
- rocking trackpad button that was noisy and kept sticking
- lid made a grating noise when trying to open/close it
- one of the holes in the left speaker grille not punched all the way through
- crooked return key
And now this one:
4th MBP (week 26 build, Samsung LED panel)
- perfect display! (had a little worry with the scrolling bands thing but it's fixed itself)
- no kernel panics so far!
- no battery/sleep issues so far!
The only problems I've had with this one so far are:
- A keyboard freeze when waking from deep sleep - it wouldn't work for about a minute or so
- Last night it spun a beachball and the whole system froze up such that I couldn't even force quit anything and had to restart by holding the power button down. This along with a couple of Safari crashes really pissed me off but not had any troubles since then
- I'm only getting around 2hrs 45 mins battery life - this is running on wireless with just Safari and iChat open; brightness around 3 pips from max.
Apart from the not-so-great battery life (under 3 hrs)
and the weird freeze-up it's working rather nicely, the display is awesome and it's cosmetically perfect (the return key is *still* a tad wonky but I've come to expect that!)I've just been sitting outside in the sunshine on my roof terrace with it and this is the first notebook I've ever used where I can actually read the display outside!
LOVING IT!
I think this is finally a machine I can use!...now let's hope I haven't just jinxed anything...
