Mary’s fairly new Macbook air is making weird noises occasionally.It’s a pretty terrible statistic. One of my Macbook pros that my brother is using lost its firewire ports and its DVD drive (it’s just 2 years old). Three of my older laptops have had their hard drives fail (with painful data loss in one instance). I have a 22 external monitor connected to my MacBook Pro (late 2011) via.My old G4 iMac had it’s DVD drive fail on it after two years. And it’s usually not pretty.3 volt DC power being returned to the graphics adapter via pin 20 of the.I need to regain some faith.It’s a pretty terrible statistic. But it has happened enough times that it seems statistically unlikely.So please share your successful run of Apple machines that have been able to last 3-4 years without breaking down. Or if I, and many people I know, have just been incredibly unlucky with Apple gear. Luckily, I also just got myself a new MBP (and the dual-DVI cable is supposed to arrive tomorrow!).I wonder if this is just par for course.
![]() What Is The Power Requirement For 1St Gen Book Air 2011 Mac Had ItI had luck that nothing caught fire in my apt. ETA for repair: 3 weeks! For a simple plastic part!!!!), cable of the power adaptor burnt and at first they wanted me to pay for a new one. Then new issues startes with the new Macbook: case broken on the spot, where the display rests on the upper case (common mistake, quote of the repair centre: It happens so often, Apple ran out of spare parts. Looked everywhere, didn’t find anything better in terms of ease of use (best operating system after all). Loyalty to the OS only goes so far. If my macs had performed the way yours have, I’d have long since been looking for something else. My battery recently stopped holding a reasonable charge, but it’s gone through a lot of charge cycles, so I guess I can’t complain.So, I guess I’m the opposite end of the spectrum from your experience. It did need the power board repaired because numerous cases of the plug being yanked on had loosened that port, but I can hardly call that a failure of the computer.The only hardware problems I’ve ever had with macs (and I’ve purchased or inherited a lot of them over the years, many of which have moved on to new owners and are still working perfectly) have been either due to wear and tear from hard use or defective peripherals (had a crappy firewire drive cook the firewire bus on a mini once, but that turned out to be a known issue with the controller used by that drive).My current macbook pro is a champ, and has taken a beating without a complaint. My black powerbook ran fine for years, and was second-hand when I got it… sold to buy a used G3/500 12” ibook, which I gave to my wife as her commuter computer about a year ago and is still going strong. I still had a perfectly functional original G3 and a blue and white until I sold them recently. Twice now my username.plist from /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/ has been corrupted to the point where I cannot login. About 80% of the time, when I attach an external screen, OSX crashes, hard. The cisco VPN stuff was a true disaster, rendering the system unstable under otherwise nominal conditions, but there are still other niggles. I suspect that some of the few kernel extensions installed by various packages have not helped, but I think it’s really sad that this is the case.In particular, I have parallels installed (4.0 seems a bit more stable now), and openvpn, and for a time, cisco vpn. Just the line buffering system (resizability), can save significant amounts of time. It has really an outstanding terminal emulator, that continually makes me happy. All of them have their issues, but as above, I wouldn’t use OS X anywhere that availability is the key.That all being said, OS X Leopard really does have a few things going for it. Sometimes at customer sites, sometimes in house. Over the same time period, and again, this is my experience, I have had both feedback and fixes from Microsoft, Sun and other vendors, on other, often less serious issues.I’ve had a long parade of Macs, and we’ve had few incidents with them.I’ve got an LC 575 from 1995 that still runs perfectly as it did when we got it, with no failed parts. I have submitted bug reports for all of the issues I have described here, and have never heard back from Apple. In my personal experience, maybe due to knowledge of the system to a large degree, I can build more stable Windows or FreeBSD boxes than I can OS X.The user plist corruption issue is one that I have never seen on another multi-user OS, and I would have hoped would be strongly protected by transaction and journalling, but alas, it’s happened twice, and in a business environment, is totally unacceptable. I’m also saying I agree, and some of my experiences of OS X + Apple have been awful, and others have been joyful. Sure as a computer scientist, you can tear some of it to pieces, but we can do that with ruby far far more easily.I’m not saying one is better than the other, I’m saying they all have problems. (still sad) Our original MacBook has had zero issues, my Mac mini runs 24/7 with lots of use and has been perfect. Our 15in iMac G4 is in perfect shape, though our 17in iMac G4 had its hard drive die, losing tons of replaceable data. My PowerMac G3 desktop still runs like a champ. Lost the command bar for autocad macAs such, I expect to replace batteries and HDDs around 42 months.Just two days ago my MacBook Pro 2.4 (less than a year old) seized up. I expect, however, that after 5 years of constant use, needing to replace a battery is no big deal.I’ve got a first gen Mac Mini that is still going strong (though, we did have the SuperDrive replaced a couple years ago).I’ve got a first gen black MacBook (almost 3 yr old) that has been rock solid, despite being dropped face down from 6 feet onto a hard floor w/ the screen open.Overall, I’d say I’ve had a fantastic experience w/ Apple hardware, especially compared to my experience with comparable PC hardware from other manufacturers, which has consistently failed, in my experience, more rapidly.The MTBF for mechanical drives (HDD & optical) is usually anywhere from 3-5 years and batteries shouldn’t be expected to last forever. But all computers will die sometime.As I also donate to old computers to family, here’s a brief history:I have a iMac DV SE (from 1999) that still works today and was in regular use until about 3 years ago.I have 2 PowerMac G4s from ~2000 that are both functional today and one was in regular, daily use until last Christmas.I have a 6-yr-old 12” PowerBook G4 that is still in service today, though, the battery no longer holds a charge. PowerMac 8100/80av worked just fine, retired not from failure but from, well, slowness :) Our iMac G5 has also had no issues at all.I think what you may be experiencing is that your Mac becomes the only computer you use, and it is subject to more use/abuse than most computers get, so its components fail earlier than would be expected. ![]()
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