10/6 I love Macintosh, I've had a G4 and other Apple related products
but I've returned my MacBook Pro v.1 for the following reasons:
- 7 pounds!!!
- When idling on single proc, it is very hot
- When idling on single proc, it only runs 1.5 hour. Slightly more
when the LCD is turned off for the entire 1.6 hour
- When running, it can boil water or scald your lap
- Rather than dealing with the heat, Apple decided to replace all
occurences of "laptop" with "portable computer" with big
heat disclaimers on every single piece of MacBook related
articles they've written (who says lawyers can't solve problems?)
- By default it goes to dual core, and even if you set it to single
proc, it defaults back to dual after you reboot. The setting is
not sticky.
- Suspend works as well as PC (slow and unresponsive and sometimes
gets stuck, just like the PC).
I'm sure many of these well known problems will be resolved in the
next version of MacBook Pro (v.2). In the mean time, I have an advice
for everyone: don't be the first one to try out v.1 on any product!
Wait for v.2 when well known problems are resolved. I'm sure
MacBook Pro v.2 will be good just like all the other Apple
products, but frankly, v.1 is a pretty looking piece of shit.
\_ You know a lot of these problems sound just like the issue
that earlier adopters had w/ the first TiBook. Anyway, I'm
also an Apple fan boi, but I generally avoid all rev 1 Apple
products b/c they never have all the bugs worked out.
\_ Third fan boi here. I personally would rather buy all of my
Mac products refurbished: they're cheaper that way, and they're
put through very rigorous testing. |