My Laptops Dead!

[matty7]

dont envy you with problem equipment mate - downloaded some email 4 hours ago and then keyboard keys started typing any other letter or icon than the one i pressed, spent 4 hours running virus scan and on phone to mate to google the virus i thought i must have - after all that it was just a coincidence with the email....the batteries in the wireless keyboard needed changing - wtf is that,, if their low then why not just dont put letters on the screen in the first place,,,, instead of thinking wow - i'll put random letters up just for a laugh...pc's a frustrating beasts.

[Mark]

Whatever you do don't get one of the new MacBook Pros! I just got one of them, and it clicks, beeps and freezes several times a minute. Apple told me that this defect is a normal 'feature' of their harddrives and won't fix it. It makes listening to music quite surreal.

Maybe the problem isn't the MacBook but the owner.. Mac's are said to be the intelligent persons computer .....

[aspidistra]

Maybe the problem isn't the MacBook but the owner.. Mac's are said to be the intelligent persons computer .....

What am I supposed to make of that comment?

[Mark]

What am I supposed to make of that comment?

You wouldn't fly a plane without the skills to fly it. :biggrin:

[CardShark]

Lol. I used to think highly of them. Now I see they have become like any other corporate behemoth. If I could send it back I would, but they are denying there is a problem (despite clicks, beeps and 30 second freezes). There is a huge thread about this over on Apple's forums. Many people have been affected, and the giant corporate vampires are denying anything is up, infuriating everyone with their attitude. That and their gag orders for people injured by their exploding Ipods, and I have very little affection for them anymore.

This is the promo video they *should* have used to reflect the 'quality' of their hardware:

I did write this post once before but it dissapeared.

They problem you had was down to the Hard drive feature that is provided in macbook pro's latest releases, and this provides a handy feature of protecting the disk surface, and if you've had a broken hard drive before and know ticking noise you will understand better.
It does this by pulling the read/write head back if the laptop is jerked, which is a amazing engineering break through in terms of laptop durability, but as usual with things this difficult to manufacture they are bound to go wrong at some point.

Quite frankly no other laptop has this feature with their hard drives its just a case of plugging in a bog standard 2.5" HDD that has proven to break after the usual of 3 years on tower PC's imagine that on laptops!, and Apple see this problem and try to fix it what they do and its why they are so sophisticated with their hardware.

iPhone batteries, well who hasn't seen batteries exploding its common as kebab on a friday night with PC laptops etc, and quite frankly the fact they can get 2 days out of their battery with the amount of hardware they have in those phones is one hell of a accomplishment!


Please don't post multiple times if it hasn't shown up more than likely its hit the filter and one of the mod's have to validate it, think you posted it like 6-7 times it doesn't usually take us long to pick up on it so please be patient .

[aspidistra]

You wouldn't fly a plane without the skills to fly it. :biggrin:

And most intelligent people wouldn't make crude and unjustified remarks about people they know nothing of.

[aspidistra]

I did write this post once before but it dissapeared.

They problem you had was down to the Hard drive feature that is provided in macbook pro's latest releases, and this provides a handy feature of protecting the disk surface, and if you've had a broken hard drive before and know ticking noise you will understand better.
It does this by pulling the read/write head back if the laptop is jerked, which is a amazing engineering break through in terms of laptop durability, but as usual with things this difficult to manufacture they are bound to go wrong at some point.

Quite frankly no other laptop has this feature with their hard drives its just a case of plugging in a bog standard 2.5" HDD that has proven to break after the usual of 3 years on tower PC's imagine that on laptops!, and Apple see this problem and try to fix it what they do and its why they are so sophisticated with their hardware.

iPhone batteries, well who hasn't seen batteries exploding its common as kebab on a friday night with PC laptops etc, and quite frankly the fact they can get 2 days out of their battery with the amount of hardware they have in those phones is one hell of a accomplishment!


Please don't post multiple times if it hasn't shown up more than likely its hit the filter and one of the mod's have to validate it, think you posted it like 6-7 times it doesn't usually take us long to pick up on it so please be patient .

It's not something clever from Apple. Apple already has an anti-shock system, that is true. The problem is from installing the Seagate G-Force anti-shock harddrive as well, which clashes with Apple's hardware. And instead of owning up to the issue, they have just ignored everyone.

Anyone still living through rose-tinted glasses should have a little read of this enormously long thread on the Apple forums just to see how cynical Apple have become:

[h t t p] ://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2049659&tstart=0

(removed the http bit so hopefully my post goes through)

[CardShark]

do i take it you upgraded your hard drive to 500GB or above the standard?

[aspidistra]

do i take it you upgraded your hard drive to 500GB or above the standard?

Just the 320GB, but it is the 7200rpm, which is the one that seems to have all the trouble. I'd happily downgrade to the 5400rpm, but without acknowledging the problem, that's not an option.

I do actually like their products generally, I would just prefer a little honesty out of them when things go wrong and them doing the decent thing and replacing the faulty drive.


PS is it possible to put back in the thread the post of mine that you quoted? Your quote of it looks rather out-of-place. I posted numerous times because I had no idea posts were moderated before appearing.

[CardShark]

I thinks its more down to their laptop configuration sounds like the hard drive is not able to pull enough power not solved by a firmware update.
I have the 250GB drive and have no trouble at all, but I understand where that noise is coming from and I've had a similar problem with certain configurations, and it was down to the drive not getting enough power to function correctly.

Which is kinda wrong for apple not testing these drives, but then again it could be a defect in the drives and their pulling too much power.

I can't put back your post sorry, I'm sure people will get it though looking at my quotation .