Don’t Apple MacBook Pro Owners Deserve Better?
It seems that those MacBook Pro owners who have systems with 500GB hard disks, have been complaining for months about sluggish performance. It seems that at random intervals the drive starts to click and fails to respond.
But what is surprising is that Apple is going to offer a software fix only. One would think that for the price that these computers from Apple cost, Apple would replace the drives. Or is this to much to ask?
I guess this is also a stab at those Apple fanboys who are always telling us that Apple computers are perfect! LOL
Comments welcome.
12 Comments
B. E. Busby
August 10th, 2009
at 6:07pm
Sorry, folks, been running my server here on Vista for 60 days straight, not willing to pay for a dark turtleneck for me, much less te rest of the PIB-wear brigade in Cupertino. Having gone Intel has brought the cache that was Apple to the street. THANK YOU BSD!
I like BSD — running on an ancient Toshiba laptop. Ahh — I’m not cool, and, courtesy of Mc-y-D, I’m lovin’ it.
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August 10th, 2009
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SPH
August 10th, 2009
at 8:44pm
Don’t internet readers deserve better?
Ron it’s a firmware update. This corrects the problem. Why would you make all these users exchange drives and shuttle drive data around when problem can be fixed with a software fix to the hardware????
Is this the best you have to offer us readers?
Colby
August 10th, 2009
at 9:06pm
that would suck to have your hard drive quit on you..
David Stark
August 10th, 2009
at 11:09pm
Compared to a majority of the PCs on the market? Yes! Macs ARE perfect.
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August 11th, 2009
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Billy Doyle
August 11th, 2009
at 6:53am
OK, I am an Apple fanboy. I admit it. Every time they release a new product I’m like oooooooo!!! But Apple is not perfect. But as David says, they are so much closer than PCs, I’ll put up with it when they screw up.
Good point though, they should be replacing the drives.
Ron Schenone
August 11th, 2009
at 6:58am
Hi Billy,
Thanks for the comment.
Robert Kelly
August 11th, 2009
at 11:19am
If the fault is truly a software (or firmware) bug, then replacing the drive would be silly. If this is a software *workaround* for a hardware fault, then the drive should be replaced. On the other hand, *if* the s/w fix makes the faulty drive run reliably at full speed, no further fix seems necessary. I don’t know enough to make the call.
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Settor76
October 22nd, 2009
at 4:10am
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