OT (Just) Apple MacBook Pro Failures

At the risk of starting up you_know_who, those of us who use Apple
MacBook Pros should be aware of:
http://www.zdnet.com/petition-about-...es-7000032751/
or http://tinyurl.com/l33kfvd
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 2014-08-19 20:31:24 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

At the risk of starting up you_know_who, those of us who use Apple
MacBook Pros should be aware of:
http://www.zdnet.com/petition-about-...es-7000032751/
or

http://tinyurl.com/l33kfvd

Personally I have not heard of this issue prior to this story. My MBP
is pre-2011 and I have not experienced any of these symptoms. The most
likely candidate for ownership of one of these MBPs is Alan Browne.

Frankly it has a "FUDDISH" feel to it coming out of that den of FUD, ZDNet.

I haven't seen anything on this subject in comp.sys.mac.system, but I
will post your link there and see what gets stirred up in that hornet's
nest.

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Regards,

Savageduck

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

At the risk of starting up you_know_who, those of us who use Apple
MacBook Pros should be aware of:

http://www.zdnet.com/petition-about-...asses-10000-si
gnatures-7000032751/
or http://tinyurl.com/l33kfvd

more of the usual linkbait.

problems can happen in anything and 10,000 out of millions is very low
anyway, but history shows that apple will probably issue an extended
repair program and fix the problem for anyone afflicted, including
refunding repair costs for those who paid for any previous repairs.

On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:11:49 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2014-08-19 20:31:24 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

At the risk of starting up you_know_who, those of us who use Apple
MacBook Pros should be aware of:
http://www.zdnet.com/petition-about-...es-7000032751/
or

http://tinyurl.com/l33kfvd

Personally I have not heard of this issue prior to this story. My MBP
is pre-2011 and I have not experienced any of these symptoms. The most
likely candidate for ownership of one of these MBPs is Alan Browne.

Frankly it has a "FUDDISH" feel to it coming out of that den of FUD, ZDNet.

I haven't seen anything on this subject in comp.sys.mac.system, but I
will post your link there and see what gets stirred up in that hornet's
nest.

The most important thing to me was that help may be on the way for
those who have not received it as yet.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

The most important thing to me was that help may be on the way for
those who have not received it as yet.

just like any other failure.

it's not news. it's linkbait.

you don't see such articles when there's a failure on lenovo or dell or
sony, do you? nope.

On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:16:40 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

The most important thing to me was that help may be on the way for
those who have not received it as yet.

just like any other failure.

it's not news. it's linkbait.

you don't see such articles when there's a failure on lenovo or dell or
sony, do you? nope.

It's not the failure that has prompted the article.

It's not the fact that people have not received help outside the
warranty period.

It's the fact that another class of Apple users have experienced a
similar failure and have received help outside the warranty period
while this class of presumed equaly meretricious Apple users are not
receiving help outside the warranty period for an apparently similar
failure.

I would expect Lenovo or Dell or Sony would attract attention if the
behaved in the same way.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 17:43:17 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

At the risk of starting up you_know_who, those of us who use Apple
MacBook Pros should be aware of:

http://www.zdnet.com/petition-about-...asses-10000-si
gnatures-7000032751/
or http://tinyurl.com/l33kfvd

more of the usual linkbait.

problems can happen in anything and 10,000 out of millions is very low
anyway, but history shows that apple will probably issue an extended
repair program and fix the problem for anyone afflicted, including
refunding repair costs for those who paid for any previous repairs.

Isn't that what lies behind all this? Apple have not done it in this
case.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

In article ,
nospam wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

The most important thing to me was that help may be on the way for
those who have not received it as yet.

just like any other failure.

it's not news. it's linkbait.

you don't see such articles when there's a failure on lenovo or dell or
sony, do you? nope.

That's because people expect more from Apple then Dell. I would not
accept anything but quality from Lenovo...
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 06:07:01 +0200, android wrote:

In article ,
nospam wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

The most important thing to me was that help may be on the way for
those who have not received it as yet.

just like any other failure.

it's not news. it's linkbait.

you don't see such articles when there's a failure on lenovo or dell or
sony, do you? nope.

That's because people expect more from Apple then Dell. I would not
accept anything but quality from Lenovo...

I don't know how any manufacturer who wanted to keep a reputation for
quality could expect to get away with ignoring widespread faults like
this.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

In article ,
Whisky-dave wrote:

On Wednesday, 20 August 2014 05:59:26 UTC+1, Eric Stevens wrote:


I don't know how any manufacturer who wanted to keep a reputation for
quality could expect to get away with ignoring widespread faults like
this.

The problem is that not everyone is getting this problem and some are solving
it in various ways which is odd. One person suggests :-
"Simply run Onyx and have your ColorSync cache cleared." and that sorted at
least two people out.

Others have come up with other solutuions, of course this shouldn't really
happen.

Other manufacuers have problems too, but tend not be talked about as much.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-...chpad-problems
-win8-1/td-p/1425779/page/3

Looks like Windows problem to me... ;-p
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