Much love and thanks for all the advice on my post about the saga of my crashing MacBook Pro. I got a lot of good tips, especially from people on Facebook. Maybe it’s the fans. Maybe it’s some wire. Maybe it’s a thermal issue. The MBP is still out at the Burlington Mall store, and higher powers at Apple have become involved, and I know they’re all doing their best to deal with what is admittedly a really tricky problem — intermittent glitches are the worst — and maybe they’ll be able to fix it this time and maybe they won’t, and anyway the thing is off warranty and never had Apple Care so if it’s gone it’s gone.
So to hell with it. The best advice I got was to just go get a new machine. And this morning that’s what I did. Got the 13-inch MB Air and this time I got the Apple Care plan too. I ordered online, so unfortunately I won’t have it in time for my trip to the Bay Area this week. But I’m excited to get my hands on it, and I’m grateful to the guys at the Apple store who have been really great about trying to find and exterminate the ghost in my old machine.
Why not just buy it at one of the many Apple stores in the bay area when you get here? They’re not exactly hard to get to (hell, the main San Francisco one is right above the Powell St. BART station).
@fluffy: Too late now. I ordered it Saturday morning online, thinking I would not have time to go to the store over the weekend and buy it. Turns out I would be able to make the trip. But, oh well. You know how these things are. Once you’ve bought it you want it right away.
Hey Dan, suggest to your Apple techs to “bake” the logic board. I have the exact same MBP (circa 2008) with the Nvidia card.
It stopped working 2 weeks ago. Apple said it’s the logic board and quoted a ridiculous amount to replace it. A friend of mine “baked” it as per advice in a forum and it’s now back as new.
I do changed one thing – I only use it with a cooler now because excess heat can cause issues again with the solder Apple used.
Thanks for the advice about baking it. My feeling is, it’s toast.
My GF bought a late 2010, 11.6″ Air. A buddy at work just bought a new, top of the line, Air with the Core i7 and a 256 gb SSD. Both units are truly sweet machines. Hooked up to a 27″ Cinema display and mounted in a BookArc stand, my GF’s late 2010 Air feels like a proper desktop system. Apple really does make the best kit on Earth…
Dan, you must be extra jazzed that they finally named an OS in your honor
From 1982 until 1989, I used various forms of TRS-80s (or a VAX account). 89-92 was a Mac SE30, and I fell in love with a computer for the first time. 1992-2001 took me to DOS/Windows for various ugly and pragmatic reasons. But this spring, I went back to Mac, with a Macbook Pro.
Love feels good.
I had the 2nd gen MBAir, and sold it to get the 4th gen MBAir.
Loved the old machine — the new one is sweeter still.
What I noticed: I found with PC trackpads that it was a non-stop grind to use them. I always carried a mouse with those to meetings, and effectively *rarely* was forced to use the trackpad (they truly sucked, and still do…)
With the 2nd gen MBAir, I found it a 50/50 split on using the trackpad and mouse.
With the new MBAir, I have turned on the mouse, worked for 2+ hours, shut off the machine and realized I didn’t even touch the mouse. The trackpad + multi gestures is quietly revolutionary in this regard.