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I HATE the MacBook Pro
I deeply despise this thing. A horrible, horrible machine.
Nothing works. The wireless drops connection every 5 minutes. I’ll be shocked if I stay connected long enough to post this.
It’s hot. Very hot.
It’s unusable with 1G memory. It takes more than 30 seconds to switch windows. Hit Alt-tab, wait 30 seconds, finally you get a response.
It actually lags behind my keypresses. That’s right, I can type faster than this thing can deal with, and I’m not a very good typist.
I was convinced I have a faulty machine, but apparently this is normal behavior. “Oh, just don’t use FireFox”. “Oh, yeah it does that sometimes”.
I have to make a choice between using Eclipse or listening to music, because god forbid I have both open, the machine will do its very best impression of a rock.
I don’t know what people see in it, but this machine has been nothing but garbage for me. Yes, excellent, it’s a unix underneath, but linux 7 years ago was more responsive than this thing.
Bah. I’m just frustrated right now. If I have to re-connect to wifi and VPN in one more time I’m going to accidentally run over it several times with a truck and get a regular PC….
Was so annoyed that I googled “I hate macbook†and found your blog. Am soooooo glad that there’s prople out there who hates MacBook; helps to take bits of frustration off.
I don’t use FREAKING MACBOOK … thank God … but Windows Microsoft Outlook and when I receive emails from people using MacBook, the message goes all weird, becomes an attachment, distorted, and when I try to do a reply, bits go missing, etc. etc.
I HATE MACBOOK basically!!! Cannot comprehend what’s all the hype about!
Yikes. Yes, that really sucks. If that’s the best you can expect from your laptop, I totally agree that it should be traded in for something that actually works. The wireless should stay connected. It shouldn’t take any appreciable time to switch applications. You should never be able to type faster than it can display your input. Those are all unacceptable.
(Digression: it’s too bad there isn’t some SLA-linked warranty for computers. Having something run perfectly well one week and then dog slow the next is just as bad as any hardware failure, but no warrany service will ever take it as proof of anything.)
That said, something sounds very wrong based on your description, and none of what you mentioned is at all consistent with my experience using a 3-year-old Powerbook. Sure, Firefox is a bit slow sometimes. (With Firebug installed, it needs a restart at least twice a day because it leaks so much memory.) But “a bit slow” means I occasionally wait a few seconds to switch tabs when I have a bunch of Firefox windows, Pyro, iTunes, Mail, TextWrangler, iChat, and a dozen terminals open at the same time. That’s with 1GB memory just like you, and with a 1.5GHz processor from yesteryear. And (the most important part), I can switch to some other program and *it works just fine*.
So yes, the experience you’re describing is completely unacceptable, whether you’re on a Mac or otherwise.
Chris, I’m writing this on a mac desktop right now, and it’s really quite nice. Alex swears by his desktop mac, as do most others who’ve touched macs. But this particular of powerbook is somehow quite useless - we have quite a few of them on campus, and many have similar issues to mine.
Alex thinks it’s something about the combination of the intel chip and this version osx… I don’t know.
That is definitely *not* normal behavior for a MacBook Pro. You’ve got problems. Best take it back to your nearest Apple service point posthaste!