DISQUS

::G · 1 year ago

Here's a reply to a rather old post. Dude, the HDD died. Apple doesn't make HDDs. The HDD manufacturers are Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi GST, Toshiba, Fujitsu, and Samsung. Blame one of those guys. I'm no Apple fanboy since they make their stuff in China, I just want to set the record straight. Incidentally, I work for one of the above companies as an engineer -- some of the other manufacturers have rather low quality standards. Now it's possible the heat management on Apple's laptops is less than wonderful. Still, it should be within the environmental spec on the HDD.

Actually, I was searching for "fuck apple" to find legitimate horror stories. Unfortunately, I'll have to keep searching. ;-)

baceman007 · 1 year ago

Well I don't think it's a secret anymore that Apple had some serious issues with Seagate HDDs and Macbooks, but although Seagate is to blame, mostly, it's not like Apple users get a whole ton of control of what goes into their machines. In fact Apple is so nuts about their image that they censor employees private lives, as I explain in one of my blog post. The point I'm getting to here is that Fuck Apple is a totally legitimate response to the MacBook HDD situation. Especially because if you go to get your HDD fixed with Apple, whether it's their fault or not, they may or may not even have the part in stock. Say at a store, and you may wait many days to have a part replaced that is very simple to repair simply because Apple sometimes runs out of parts and repairing your machine, with or without new parts, is totally at their discretion. Read the fine print on the contract on this one. Plus Apple Care doesn't cover accidental damage, and offers no option to upgrade to a version that does. A Genius will probably say something along these lines if you spill something in the notebook, "Spilled something in the your MacBook, have Apple Care, oh well that's too bad but it's still about 3/4 the cost of a new computer to repair, and we have to send it out so you'll be without it for at least a week." Plus the Genii are so busy repairing phones now that who knows if they can get to your computer and if so how often they even get to work on them in general. Of course stories will differ on this point, whether competent management is at a store and allotting time for repairs to be performed, etc. but overall your broken machine may be a stain on their image so unless you're a Pro Care member, they often won't even let you retain the machine while they order a part for your machine. Often leaving you without your machine for days, even weeks in some cases. Pro Care is another additional approximately $100 service on top of anything else you bought. In general Apple is responsible partially for HDD issues lately because there have been so many. Seagate admitted to issues a few months ago. Still it's tough to believe that if Apple was really testing the machines to a higher level, you know the level that you're supposedly paying more for, they wouldn't have picked up on this issue. In general they're OS is nice, but their hardware is nothing to write home about, and you loose your control over being allowed to touch it, for the most part. Of course who wants complete hardware control, but a closed source OS, and viruses? The only logical way to look at this is that neither Apple or Windows based computers are good in the long run. They are a proprietary, temporary solution, to getting everyone into something Open Source so we can get past all of this crap once and for all and have total software and hardware control, but until we stop bending over for Apple and MS it's not going to happen.

fuck apple · 1 year ago

apple is bullshit, charging people $300 for $99 products

Steve · 1 year ago

I'm a recording artist. I was told to buy an Apple for music and all other applications. In lest then 3 years, I've had 67 freeze ups, I have gone through nine hard drives, six mother boards, three logic boards and a bunch of misc. crap. Also, I'm on my third Imac, all free because Apple knew that their computer is horrible piece of junk and I have the Apple protection plan. All bullshit!
The Imac is the worst flawed piece of shit on the planet. I cannot believe that the public buys into this bullshit about Macs being superior to PCs.
I hate Apple computers, I loath them, I have the deepest hatred for their products. I would like to legally box Steve Jobs in the fucking ring If I could. Fuck Apple!

Applesucks · 1 year ago

'm a recording artist. I was told to buy an Apple for music and all other applications. In lest then 3 years, I've had 67 freeze ups, I have gone through nine hard drives, six mother boards, three logic boards and a bunch of misc. crap. Also, I'm on my third Imac, all free because Apple knew that their computer is horrible piece of junk and I have the Apple protection plan. All bullshit!
The Imac is the worst flawed piece of shit on the planet. I cannot believe that the public buys into this bullshit about Macs being superior to PCs.
I hate Apple computers, I loath them, I have the deepest hatred for their products. I would like to legally box Steve Jobs in the fucking ring If I could. Fuck Apple!