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I'm on the brink of going crazy - please help.
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Step off the cliff and go crazy, the medication will be better than anything you can get now.
Good idea. I really should just take the step. With heavy medication, my apple experience will enter a whole new dimension.
Before I let go completely though, I did try oiling the hinge but it didn't work. As i said, I think it's more related to the whole display being misaligned. There's a large gap between the display hinge plastic and the laptop body on the left side, compared to the right.
Anyway...here I gggggggggggggggggggggggggo!
thanks. Yeah, they're great that way and the reason I try to buy all my more expensive electronic things through them. No hassle and quite good to deal with. Always been a happy amazon customer. It's the way it should be when you buy something: the seller takes responsibility for the products and offers to replaced it if something is wrong.
Nonsense. I don't know where you live, but retailers cannot legally sell a "returned" and opened item as "new." Any Apple-certified seller, e.g. Amazon, CompUSA, etc. in particular couldn't get away with that. A returned item in working order can be sold at a discount as "clearance," but that's it.
And your "recourse" to protect you is to buy with a credit card, and have your charge refused if the retailer screws you over.
Lastly, are you serious? You've bought a total of twelve MBPs and MBs this year, and only one was without "defects?" Either you are the absolute, unluckiest person on the planet, or your definition of "defective" is too finicky to be reasonable. If it's the latter, you will probably never find a product, ever, of any sort, that you'll be happy with. If it's the former ...... avoid all forms of gambling, risky hobbies, and women.
iBorg
OMFG, bring out the violins .........
To claim that "Apple's quality control has gone downhill and that is the bottom line" is such utter BS, it's laughable. You don't have to be a "Mac Fanboy" to see where Apple is, year-after-year, in consumer satisfaction surveys. They're not perfect, but they do it as well as, or better than, anyone else, every year. And 2006 is no different.
"The bottom line" is that a very small percentage of product is going to have flaws/defects. And some people are just unlucky. PDE, unfortunately, appears to be one of them, when it comes to buying Macs.
iBorg
Sorry to hear about all you're troubles
We got a MBP 17" about two weeks ago and so far it's been flawless, and a C2D MB will be arriving here next week, I'm hoping it shows the same amount of craftsmanship.
Whatever the case, I hope you get what you want. Hate to see someone go through so much trouble
We got a MBP 17" about two weeks ago and so far it's been flawless, and a C2D MB will be arriving here next week, I'm hoping it shows the same amount of craftsmanship.
Whatever the case, I hope you get what you want. Hate to see someone go through so much trouble
My MBP has a squeky spacebar, anything I should do? Send it in?
Sorry to hear about your misfortunes bud, any advice on what I should do to analyze my macbook? Just got it a few weeks ago, so any advice to make sure nothing is wrong would be great.
hmm
I know that, but the Apple tech and customer relations lady was implying that - not me.
[/QUOTE]And your "recourse" to protect you is to buy with a credit card, and have your charge refused if the retailer screws you over. [/QUOTE]
Yeah, I did that once with a restocking fee and got the money back.
[/QUOTE]Lastly, are you serious? You've bought a total of twelve MBPs and MBs this year, and only one was without "defects?" Either you are the absolute, unluckiest person on the planet, or your definition of "defective" is too finicky to be reasonable. If it's the latter, you will probably never find a product, ever, of any sort, that you'll be happy with. If it's the former ...... avoid all forms of gambling, risky hobbies, and women. [/QUOTE]
I'm usually a lucky guy, so that means I must be very picky OR, heaven forbid, APPLE HAS A QUALITY CONTROL PROBLEM. I think I'm discerning (sounds better than picky) and that I demand that a new computer not have cosmetic or functional defects out of the box.I don't think that's too much to ask for, or maybe it really is. I suppose I need to lower my expectations at the same rate as Apple lowers its quality control.
One more thing worth thinking about as a general principle in life: just because you had one experience that was in a particular way doesn't necessarily mean others are to blame for their different experience.
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I know that, but the Apple tech and customer relations lady was implying that - not me.
[/QUOTE]And your "recourse" to protect you is to buy with a credit card, and have your charge refused if the retailer screws you over. [/QUOTE]
Yeah, I did that once with a restocking fee and got the money back.
[/QUOTE]Lastly, are you serious? You've bought a total of twelve MBPs and MBs this year, and only one was without "defects?" Either you are the absolute, unluckiest person on the planet, or your definition of "defective" is too finicky to be reasonable. If it's the latter, you will probably never find a product, ever, of any sort, that you'll be happy with. If it's the former ...... avoid all forms of gambling, risky hobbies, and women. [/QUOTE]
I'm usually a lucky guy, so that means I must be very picky OR, heaven forbid, APPLE HAS A QUALITY CONTROL PROBLEM. I think I'm discerning (sounds better than picky) and that I demand that a new computer not have cosmetic or functional defects out of the box.I don't think that's too much to ask for, or maybe it really is. I suppose I need to lower my expectations at the same rate as Apple lowers its quality control.
One more thing worth thinking about as a general principle in life: just because you had one experience that was in a particular way doesn't necessarily mean others are to blame for their different experience.
h
It seems Apple has improved it's quality control with the new C2D's. IMHO I am seeing less complaints on different forums as compared to the origional MBP's. My C2D 15" is flawless. I suggest although you have had bad experiences in the past you should try again at an Apple store. I partly believe the tip that you should strictly go stock and not custom order your MBP, to lessen the chances of having whatever tech is working on it make more problems with the customized order. I love my 2.33 Ghz stock C2D. And I believe your story; I myself have (a few years ago) sent a Titainium in to be serviced 7 times before it came back without additional problems created by the Apple service department. Each time it came back with additional damage, but they finally got it right.
It's really too bad that some people have had repeated bad luck getting a good computer out of the box; I can understand one or two replacements, but 12 is pushing it. Of course, worse things can happen, like the poor guy who got hit by lightning seven times in his life. I don't know that I would replace for a squeak (with all the trouble of returning it) if the computer worked fine, but we all have our preferences, so you have to do what seems right to you, I guess.
I am surprised that you kept going back to apple. At least after a couple of repairs, you should have switched companies. Maybe Sony?
All monopolies are bad and apple is no exception. In my experience, Apple customer service is awesome. But, for some reason, if it kept happening, get a PC. If you must use OS X, then there are several versions for PC available on torrents, albeit bordering on legality.
All monopolies are bad and apple is no exception. In my experience, Apple customer service is awesome. But, for some reason, if it kept happening, get a PC. If you must use OS X, then there are several versions for PC available on torrents, albeit bordering on legality.