LIFT killed another mac
Just like last year when my iBook gave up on me one month before LIFT, we lost my Macbook this morning, and reanimation efforts didn’t change the prognosis: hard drive and motherboard failure.
My nomadic lifestyle seems to kill a mac every 11 months. The timing of course couldn’t be worse, and it is a real disapointment to pay 3000CHF for a machine that lasts less than a year. I have apple care but it takes weeks, and I can not postpone a 700 hundred persons event while I wait for a new machine.
My plan is to get a PC, yes, a peecee, and get really really disrespected by a lousy operating system in order to find some energy to enthusiastically buy a mac again (because right now I am really pissed at mister Jobs & co) and wait for the second generation of the new Macbooks.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Consider Ubuntu. It’s a lot less of a leap from Mac OS to Linux than from Mac OS to Windows.
January 15th, 2008 at 11:13 am
It’s a pity that the hardware broke so easily. May by a SSD will help next time. ;-)
January 15th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
IBM Thinkpad are well known to be very resistant, ugly still but strong. And having a peecee doesn’t mean you have to use a lousy OS, there a plenty of funky alternatives and you keep the UNIX taste that OSX has. It really depends on what you’re doing with your laptop, I’m pretty sure that for the 80% of your time is really OS independant (surf, email, photos, music, video, …).
January 15th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
I want to try Ubuntu, but isn’t it super hard to install?
What is a SSD btw?
January 15th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
had the same problems with mine. there was a whole bunch of MBPro going out between feb and may 2006 that had defect logic boards. mine was one of them, I checked serial numbers and all the broken ones where going out from the shanghai assembly line of apple….
apple never confirmed officially, of course, but my dealer was resonably fast to change logic board and DVD slot - 2 days. I stayed with the MBPro because of the dealer’s immediate positive reaction.
good luck with the preparation, sure everything’s work out ok. see you there!
doris.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:07 am
SSD stands for static RAM, so no HDD which are more fragile. the MacBook AIR should come with a 64GB SSD instead of the 80GB classical HDD, but it can be more expensive.
Ubuntu is damn easy to install, the point is to be sure that every single piece of hardware are supported. (http://hardware4linux.info/stats2/) Most of the linux distro are shipped on a Live CD so it’s easy to give ‘em a try.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Ubuntu is really easy to install but in my experience it was really hard to set up wifi/wpa connexions, but it’s probably because of the hardware as said above
January 17th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I confirm Bebop comment, Ubuntu is very easy to install and very stable, however some drivers (specially wifi) are not yet available under this distribution…
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