I HATE APPLE

My tech experience with Apple has been sensational. A friend called me today to tell me that his mini iPod was replaced in less than five business days, and he also got the new generation mini in place of his old one that had died. No charge.

I've dealt with Dell and Gateway and their CSRs are no better than Apple's. HPs can blow me, they've sucked.

the desktop I have at work running XP has been up and alive for 2 years with barely any reboots. It does everything I want it to do, does it quickly, and I can navigate painlessly without ever touching the mouse if I feel like it.

I was raised on Apple and my first job was DTP on a Mac, followed by audio editing on a Mac, more DTP, and so on. OS 7+ had more than its share of problems and stupid quirks but the hardware was rock solid and at least its behavior was predictable.

Since getting my latest-edition powerbook I've put it through little more than I ever tried to do with my old OS

...OS

My old Quadra used to have a TV Tuner in it and be able to do image captures from live cable broadcasts, then I could import them into my cheap, incredibly easy to use paint program and do whatever with them. I believe it cost approximately half of what my laptop did! My laptop lets me chat and surf the internet. And rip CDs.

Well today it decided it wasn't going to wake up again, ever, as I'm being greeted with a totally white screen.

What's funny is that like doing searches on my own to try to figure out wtf this computer is doing right now (I mean not even the sad face x-eye Mac or the question mark Mac! NOTHING AT ALL! WHITE SCREEN! I know how to handle the other things!), everyone who is reporting similar issues to me is like bitching about how they have all this important blah blah blah they were doing with the Mac prior hand. Is it that no one who has this failure who is only using their Mac for chat, porn, and MP3s can be bothered to get in on the discussions, or is it because they don't die if that's all you use it for? Because yeah, it seems like my sleep problem increases tenfold whenever I've been using my iBook more for writing or photo work. If all I've done on the damn thing is use iChat for two weeks, no problems whatsoever with starting it up, back when it, uh, started up.

What does this imply??? Is there like some inherent instability in the majority of the "native" programs that come bundled with OSX or is this just really fucked up coincidence?

Also it seems that this particular issue with the iBook G3 was so bad they threw the whole "your warranty is expired, give us $500" shenanigans out the window, and searching on this same issue with "Powerbook" has not given me the same results--ARE IBOOKS PIECES OF SHIT? wtf?

*with the exception of my ancient PowerMac that I had when I was 14-15-16, which only died because my sister is a dick.

I am pretty close to deciding to become the female Punisher, except murdering computer firms, instead of bad guys.

And then kind of ran away????

That was pretty funny.

If Apple store in Clarendon cannot do anything for me worthwhile like, I will be coming back up to NYC and hitting u up on the favor, though. I like desperately, desperately need this to work ASAP.

Graphics are nonsense; I had that system and just customized the entire thing with graphics of my choice. Of my choice, since I was like 14 at the time, was like a bunch of lame ass Monty Python cartoons and/or Madonna album covers but what the fuck ever.

You know what else? This lamp-shaped iMac is stupid. There's no reason the screen needs to be this adjustable, and in fact with an LCD screen that has color-shifting problems, it's best if it doesn't move at all. It's only to make the computer more anthropomorphic, more... cute. So people will fall in love with the computer like it's a kitten. Crafty to the point of being kinda evil.

I have thought, on a few occasions, that OS7/8/9's desktop was more customizable than OSX's.

Maybe they are trying too hard to make things look pretty or cute and not spending enough time on making things sensible and working, anymore.

When I've been put off the G5 iMac as my next desktop computer because I hear too many stories about the power supply overheating thanks to them shoving everything in a thin white IKEA slab, it's time to reconsider the role "award-winning design" plays in your product development.

I kind of hate the OS X desktop. I have a menu bar, and a hard drive icon. I don't want a fucking DOCK, I never asked for a fucking DOCK, the whole rest of the computing world gets by without a DOCK. take that shit away and let me pick my own fonts. Dickholes.

In an office where multiple people are using the same computer and there's limited desk space the lamp iMacs have been terrific.

Hold down the trackpad button on startup.

I will be at a loss forever, though, as to why pressing F12 (the eject button) worked to eject The Marriage of Maria Braun not ten minutes earlier, but refused to work just now.

Any suggestions on the other stuff, besides setting the thing on fire?

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Font management/selection/preview is atrocious in OS X. I got Suitcase but all that does is move fonts into and out of your Font folder, rather than you going and doing it yourself. Uh alright thanks I guess.

You know what I've never understood about computers? Why should anyone have to "save" anything, ever? Why isn't it just all on there all the time? I spent 3 hours working on some document, you tool, you think I don't want to "save" it? I mean really now.

xpost: you could try shooting it.

Download Yasu, let it run everything.

http://www.laptops4me.com/images/pict/SNY-TR3AP1_LG.jpg

And yeah, Tracer, I'm kind of hoping that this is a display issue somehow, not a computer-itself issue, but everything I'm reading indicates this is not the case. :(

I didn't notice the all-white screen hassle upthread. Did you try booting into open firmware and reseting the NVRAM?

(cmd-opt-o-f on bootup, then type "reset-nvram" "set-defaults" "reset-all" )

so I can just walk into the apple store with this thing and someone will help me out?

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tracer otm. i often have totally differing degrees of success w/customer service if i just take a different approach.

or take it to a FixIt booth in the local shopping centre and pay them £15 to clean it out with a 'special cleaning tool' (which is probably a cocktail stick)

(it worked, phone went from being unchargeable and is like new again. there was no visible gunge in the socket so i was sceptical but...)

Koogs otm

Sometimes the charging cable can be the problem too what with corrosion.

I have several charging cables… one definitely had gone bad. I think I will try the stick method! Thanks ilx

be persistent with the stick method if it's not working. many a time charging hasn't worked and i've thought "there can't be any lint in there, i've scraped and scraped" but i just needed to scrape more.

Yeah the lint gets a tenacious grip in there, like some kind of sf alien that needs to be tricked out of its hideyhole.

The phone is at least 5 years old…

Point of pride

I had a powerbook that was good for 10 years

That’s the spirit

My 22yo daughter defiantly uses a 2013 MacBook Pro 13 for her work, not interested in switching it up

I'm in support of this. My 2011 macbook pro just kicked the bucket after very long service. I upgraded to a 2012 mbp for £90. I want to be able to watch my old DVDs and burn CDs.
Apple annoy me when they unilaterally decide that you, the user, are done with certain formats or ways of doing things.
I fell out with them when they closed Final Cut Pro and the associated apps and changed it to final cut X. I'd never trust them again and never bought an iPhone as a consequence.

you could get a new superdrive for $80

That's a good thought. I've still got a very weighty 2007 iBook that I use for occasional DVD use.

I'd never trust them again and never bought an iPhone as a consequence.

On the positive side, Apple provides support and updates for their iPhones for a longer period than most of their competitors.

Yeah, I'd already replaced the superdrive once, the hd twice, the cooling fan once and the battery three times. I can do it all over again so long as I can find the spares.

Apple provides support and updates for their iPhones for a longer period than most of their competitors

Fair point. My dad gave me his old iPhone 10 but it's still in a box. I'm typing on a Galaxy A6 that I paid off on contract years ago. I like the mini-jack and the sdcard slot; it's a glorified iPod. I didnt make it past 4th gen iPod. I started using my phone for music then.

I don't hate Apple but I loved them at a point in time and then they left me to go and do bigger things 😭

I remember when the super drive came out, it was like “this can do everything I need, I’ll never need anything else” lol

I still have and use my iPod for music. Its battery is fine

They sound better than the phones imho

Almost bought one of those transparent mod refurb ones