As I'm considering to buy a mbp I searched a bit and found this site, Apple Defects Macbook Pro and this is pritty scary. So I want the macbook pro owners in this forum to tell us their experience with defects/failures. Thx


melted magsafe


exploded battery


scrambled display

any many more defects...

never experienced this with a core 2 duo one. those defects apply to the core duos

not even heat problems? e.g. when using the notebook on the laps for 2 hours?

Nope no probs here. They are perfect now, I am not saying there are no more bad ones as with every product, failures and defects occur...

Stop being scared and Go buy one NOW>!!!!

are u with apple?^^ I will wait till 11th June and buy one in August when I arrive in the USA.

Lol, na. Just thought you might need to be pushed. I got mine from the U.S. I Prefer the Keyboard to the U.K one. and I saved a few Quid.

You are wanting a MBP? Those shots look like MBs and not MBP and many issues are old and are fixed. I would get one if you want one, get the Apple care and enjoy but have the warranty just in case.

is the warranty also effective in germany, when i bought the laptop in the US? how easy is it to change the keyboard to the german one?
thx

Those problems you mentioned are already resolved in the newer models.

hecker

The problems weren't even that widespread in the older models. Sure it was a higher percentage of the products that had defects, but it still wasn't common. It was blown out of proportion, IMHO.

I have the newer Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro...and never had any of those problems. I can put the laptop on my lap for 4hrs nad work on it...and it still wont get uncomfortably hot or anything. The graphical artifacts were also fixed in the C2D MBP's.

It does get a little bit warmer under windows than under OS X...its still not unbearable point, but a tad warmer...but thats ok, since I only use Windows for playing games...that too resting the MBP on a Targus Chillpad, so its ok.

ok thats appeasing

i doesnt matter, applecare covers all of these problems...

it gets toastier then my ibook g3, but most do.

Nows the time to buy an MBP, with the new update and all.

I have an original MBP and the only problem I have had in the last 1.3 years I have had this is that the fan on the left side went bad. It got super noisy so I brough it in. It was a whopping few days out of warranty. I brought it in to the local Apple store and talked to a Genius. He happened to have the part in for some other person who was not coming in for about two weeks. So he sold me that part on the spot ($40) and put it in for free!!!!! I would never have gotten service like that from any PC maker, and I know because I have been in the PC business for many years.

Other than that, it's rock solid. I have never been so satisfied with a single computer.

I heard this problem is solved with the new mbp. Am I right?


That's great, but in my area there is no apple store. I would have to drive 4 hours or smth.


Thats a good reason to buy one.