Comments on: Goodbye You Wretched MacBook Air

By: RP

RP — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:01:08 +0000

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I work at a college and we bought 12 of the macbooks when they first came out. I have since had to change 8 hard drives, have 3 of them replaced, have 2 disk drives replaced, and now one of them has started melting in the corner where the power plugs in.

By: RP

RP — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:52:02 +0000

I bought one of the first generation macbooks when they first came out and was plagued with problems for that.
Unexpected shutdowns (caused apparently by a stripped wire inside which expands in the heat and shorts the computer out), the hard-drive died and I had to replace it, not the superdrive won’t read DVDs because of some firmware update apple released.
Always wait until the next revisions come out…

By: Per-Erik Broz

Per-Erik Broz — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:32:46 +0000

Kinda glad I bought the Macbook. I want an Air, but with more an more posts like this one – I will wait for the 2nd gen.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:29:02 +0000

Wow what a piece of junk. Classic Apple… Screw the early adopters.

By: chad

chad — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:06:12 +0000

btw…. we have a $97,000.00 (and some change) High Performance Cisco Fiber Switch in our data center suite at work… and Cisco had to send out new $10,000.00 “blade” to put in it because one failed.

Just goes to show, nothings perfect ;)

http://h30094.www3.hp.com/product.asp?sku=2960791&jumpid=ex_r2910_CIGB

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:57:32 +0000

“I’d keep getting replacements until I got a good one.”
Wow. I’d move on.

By: Chowder

Chowder — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:27:25 +0000

Good rule of thumb…never buy the first generation of anything…this includes small children…

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:28:55 +0000

KRIS: I wasn’t implying that MBA’s fail that much. I have no idea how much they fail. I’m on my first one, and it’s been working great for months. The MBA has been the top selling Mac system since it’s release (see “Top Sellers” in store.apple.com), so the vast majority are surely working.

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:17:44 +0000

“I’d keep getting replacements until I got a good one.” I find that an unacceptable choice. when you have to continualy send in a product because you keep getting lemons. The idea is not to sell a product that works 5 out of 10 times. The mac book air being top of the line if you will, should not be a total flaw! if you have to send in more than one and have it replaced then in my eyes its poor manufacturing and enginerring let alone testing.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:24:58 +0000

I have an Air and have none of those problems. I love it. Wifi is great, battery acceptable, no shutdowns or overheating. In fact, I notice very little performance degradation from using my other Macbook Pro 2.33.

If you scan the forums for any device, you’ll find people having problems with it. Sorry to hear you got a lemon, but if it were me, I’d keep getting replacements until I got a good one.