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Apple's Growing Pains

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-pcs-are-perfect dept.

Tyler Too writes "Is Apple having an unusually large number of quality control problems since its switch to Intel? Ars Technica runs down the litany of problems MacBook and MacBook Pro users have experienced since their launch. From the article: 'Is Apple's quality control slipping through the cracks with this Intel transition? Given the volume of available evidence that has appeared in such a short timeframe, it's simply impossible to say that Apple isn't having problems.'"

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  1. Re:All Gen 1 in 1 year by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gen 1 breaking in period is what Apple Fan boys are for!

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  2. one problem easily solved by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    One of the original and most widely covered issues with the MacBook Pro was the mysterious "whining" noise.

    That's weird. I thought that problem went away when you let the design department buy the macs in the first place?

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  3. What? No Doom and gloom? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No "Could this be the end for Apple?" question at the end of the description?

  4. Re:I question Apple's prototype testing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    vale of secrecy


    That's a pretty good name for Silicon Valley, given all the NDAs floating around.

    Of course, it might have been a typo and you might have meant "veil".
  5. Quality control by proxima · · Score: 3, Funny
    From the article:
    [...]are there quality control problems at Apple? We've wondered about that before and now we're raising the quesiton again.
    (emphasis mine)

    It's pretty funny to read a sentence about quality control followed up by something spellcheck could catch. Then again, this is Slashdot.
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  6. Re:First they build you up by monopole · · Score: 4, Funny

    So the new Apple Slogan is "Slightly less crappy than Dell"?

  7. Re:All Gen 1 in 1 year by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Very pleased again, until I received Studio 8 in the mail. I popped the CD in and... *GRIND GRIND GRIND GRIND Eject*"

    I'm pretty sure that Studio 8 only came on floppies. Trying to put a floppy disk in your CD drive is a bad idea... Besides, MacBooks don't support System 7 anyway, so how are you going to run it? :^) :^) :^)

    Seriously, though, I assume you've tried other CDs, right?

  8. Re:Problems... by dbcad7 · · Score: 2, Funny
    The problem with those commercials is they are really talking software.. Windows software to be specific. (that's why the "loser" bears a resemblance to Bill). To call the Windows guy "PC" is somewhat stupid. A PC is a personal computer. Isn't a Mac a personal computer ? .. PC used to mean x86 computer, but now a Mac is Intel... So, now are only "Windows computers" to be called PC ? And what do I call my Linux computer ?

    I'm having an identity crisis here...

    perhaps AC, LC, and WC will work... (WC will probably be lost on many here in the US, but fitting I think)

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