Macs aren’t perfect

I know, I know – it’s been a while since my last post here. I’m OK, it’s just that I got too busy recently.

Wondering how is my switch to Mac? Did I finally receive it? Although it took three weeks to ship a MacBook from US to France, it did ship. As for a switch, I will not get into details, as it would probably be yet another successful Mac switcher story, I’d just mention that OS X has exceeded my expectations – it has more cool software than I would ever need, keyboard shortcuts can be learned quite easily, the interface is really nice as well as other features I got used to, that will stop me from switching back to windows or any other OS for a while.

Is MacBook 13″ enough for me? Frankly – yes. It’s not as small as it sounds. Yet, it is really powerfull: 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 4MB L2 cache per CPU, 2G of RAM – I wouldn’t ask anything more from a todays notebook.

Anyways, what bothers me is that it has been only a month, but I already had two issues with the notebook:

  1. This is really funny but when I received the notebook, it just did not work out of the box. After an hour of reading the book that’s been shipped with the notebook, I came to the section where RAM upgrade procedures are explained and I thought “since they had to upgrade notebook with 1G additional RAM module, maybe they did not insert it properly” and I was so damn right. After reinserting both of the modules, the MacBook started working and the excitement has begun.
  2. The Battery. Yes, it’s already dead. And, as far as I know, it’s not the first time for apple: in the middle of 2006, “Apple has initiated a worldwide battery exchange program for certain rechargeable batteries that were sold for use with 15-inch MacBook Pro computer systems from February 2006 through May 2006″. I find users with the same problem this year too. I guess apple changes battery supplier in the beginning of every year and looks like this year is an unsuccessful one too.

But don’t get me wrong – I like my mac. It’s just that nothing is perfect. Even macs aren’t.

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#1 crz.lt » Blog Archive » Apple service is great. Even in Paris. on 07.26.07 at 05:16

[...] been following my posts, you should know that when I first switched to Mac – I was a little disappointed with my first MacBook experience. One month – two issues. But I did not tell you how (if) did it end up. I guess it’s about [...]

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