September 20th, 2006
Bad Apples
Well, my less-than three month old Apple MacBook is playing up - black screen, flickering screen - not happy. And I’m not the only one who is not happy. I took into the Apple store, and after one week, they informed me that the problem was related to the dreaded Random Shut Down. This problem is affecting loads of other people to the point where there is a web site dedicated to afflicted, disgruntled users.
Apple has acknowledged that there is a problem, and the Apple store told me that the logic board would need replacing…. but that there is a 4 week backlog in getting the (now updated) part! more »