MacBook Woe · Oct 27, 11:22 AM by Richard Thompson
About three months ago I ordered a MacBook Pro, it arrived the next day and WOW! wasn’t it pretty. Nice big 17” screen great OS and fast.
All was fine until a couple of days in when I noticed that the power button had dropped slightly. I put it down to me not noticing as was hardly noticeable at the time. However, this soon got worse but was something that I had decided to live with.
I then started using the “laptop” for longer periods of time and realised it was getting hot. Not warm, as you would expect a fast thin laptop to get, but HOT! Untouchable hot. Doing some research over the net I found this to be due to bad use of cooling paste between the processors and cooling systems. See here for more details…
Was getting a bit upset by this time with the whole thing and my view of Mac has plummeted. Seeming that the Mac response is that laptops get warm! Not issuing a recall to solve the problem.
So I am ranting! but the most annoying problem developed this week. When using the laptop on a wireless connection I got called away. When returning my wireless connection had dropped. I tried reconnecting to get the dreaded “There was and error joining the AirPort network xxx”. So after fetching a long ethernet lead i searched the internet for fixes and hacks to get my wireless working again.
This resulted in me trying the following:
- Removing all wireless settings, including network keys from the key chain
- Resetting the power management unit (PMU), which didn’t seem to have any effect!
- Replacing all the AppleAirport.kext files in the System > Libary
The guys over at MacFixIt had put together a great tutorial but unfortunately it didn’t work for me.
So I was forced to take the darn thing back to the Mac store to see one of the MacGeniuses and see if they could shed some light on the situation. After going through everything, I have now got to send the thing away for two weeks (14 days) for it to be looked at by Apple.
So to conclude, I have had the thing for two and a half months and have now got to send it away for two weeks. Hopefully I will have my faith in Mac restored when I get it back in a couple of weeks..
