Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

If I bought the new MacBook in gold, would you guys still speak to me?

On a serious note, really tempted by that computer...

You just got your new mac after weeks of hassle, and now you want a new macbook ?

Yeah I kinda want one too. Might treat the wife for Christmas. Maybe.

I am really tempted, yes I just got a new machine and it's gonna be my workhorse etc... My plan was to use this 13inch on the go and spend a decent amount of mony to do up the 2011 15inch MBP to use at home... but after almost a year not actually needing the 2011 with everything I have done, including doing a huge amount of both video and photo editing for both my MA and commercial jobs, I don't think the 2011 Mac is any longer needed for me...

So maybe I will 'part exchange' that with the new MacBook, with topping the processor to 1.3ghz, the 256GB ssd model comes to a total of £1074 via the edu store. which is a lot of money... However, this specs is more than enough, on paper anyway, for doing anything on the go plus photoshoping shouldn't be a painful experience, which is what I would want this machine for anyway... Oh I don't know...

Just experienced my 1st blank screen of fuck on the replacement unit. I am giving up... might just go back to PCs as as least if they break, I can just bin them.

I really can't put my finger on it? Two different machines, two different models, a whole year apart, maybe it really is software related? This time I have nothing open, so it can't even be dodgy files playing at the background... Please this be a one off...

Magnets.

What software are you running? Can you find anyone else on the support forums with the same problem?

1.3ghz lol

I am not running any software, this is the strange thing. I only just got this unit yesterday and only just finished installing various software, but when the blank screen happened, I wasn't running anything... In fact the only thing I have done on this unit is using Firefox.

And yes a quick google serach indicates this seems a problem that shared by a fair few, but since this model I have is very new, I can't find an someone who has an idential model that has the same problem yet... I would have to be very unluck to have 2 machines that have the same probelm surly?

Same power source?

How do you mean? The blank screen has happened both on battery and plugged in...

So it's happened twice on this machine? New power source or old power source?

Oh no, it's only happened once so far on the new one, and it was on battery. It pretty much happened randomly with the old one...

At least 2 friends of mine have the same problem, 1 has given up battling against Apple, the other one doesn't give a shit... They both have 15inch MBPr...

I can't remember if I have posted this before, but this is what happened... this was made with the old one.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ba1poie3t4mvq4j/VID_20150318_010617.mp4?dl=0

Weird. No idea.

Mayeb it's someone from above indicating I should really give up using apple products and go back to the using windows...

That's some real bad luck.
My rmbp has never had that problem... I'd give them another call but I think the odds of them helping this time are lower, would you believe it?

wtf

I will probably bring it into work for our tech guys to run some test to see if we can find out what the problem is, for the moment, I am just gonna keep my fingers crossed hoping that it was just a one off with this new machine. Otherwise, I will try keep making video and list of times and go back in a couple of weeks.

Yes, they are gonna be less keen in helping I am sure, but if I go back real quick this time, they can't deny there is a problem esp if I go with solid proof. Also, this I'd have nothing to 'gain'* but time to lose as this is already the latest model and all.

*A couple of the employees I spoke to during the whole process did imply that I was trying it on and that I should be grateful with any replacement.

Talking of bad luck, 2 of my other Macs I have / had also became recall products... one of which was a iMac that the HDD fried withing 3 months and about a year later, they had to recall every single one of them...

I seem to always end up buying fucked up Apple products... at least their customer service is still better than most...

Become a tree surgeon or a crab fisherman or something

Yeah that's a pretty bad run. I've never had a single problem in near 15 years mac use. Maybe one software update in 2003 was bad, but I fixed it.

I expect my next purchase to be a lemon.

You are the female Dammit... #aicmfp

Tim Bradshaw at the FT (who I rate, and he's a nice chap to boot) says that it struggles to run a number of browser tabs on top of Yosemite:

"...the MacBook struggles with too many browser tabs, let alone video editing. It is the only flaw in a near-perfect laptop."

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c96f354-e822-11e4-894a-00144feab7de.html#axzz3YJariwT3

He's the only person I've heard say this so far but I trust him so I wouldn't bother. I was between that and a Google Pixel 2, I'm going to get the Pixel 2 because it only has to run Chrome and it has an i5 as well as 8Gb of ram.

Not a Mac though, obvs. But the Pixel is the new Macbook's natural competitor.

Fuck both.