551–560 of 588 posts
What's with all the comments on that Apple thread where people are saying "I didn't have a grain of cereal, rice, etc between the screen"? Are Macbook screens that fragile now?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually understand the subjective differences for people to choose a desktop over a laptop. But I really don't get your point about form factor. Using, external monitors and adding a keyboard and mouse to a laptop is a non-issue.
If you add external monitors, keyboard and mouse you just recreated non-mobile work environment that costs more money and has worse performance than workstation.
I'm not arguing against desktops for people who like them but this "I don't understand laptops" stuff (several posts, not just this one) is bizarre.
> it is frustrating that apple doesn’t believe its costumers. What's notable here is there is 49 pages of seemingly mostly "me too". It should give Apple at the very least pause for reevaluation of their stance. One guy saying "I didn't do it man" is not evidence, but a clearly non coordinated global trend of people claiming the same thing? Pretty compelling.
You only hear about it because it’s Apple and they have like 6 SKUs of products that they sell millions of. When the batteries bulge or screens fail on some random Dell made by a subcontractor in Vietnam, nobody cares as they have like 80 models of laptop for every market segment. The bullshit thing in my mind is that Apple took away the ability for store staff to make discretionary calls to bypass stuff like this an…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
They’ll just void your warranty for tenuously related issues, oh, kinda like…
If you have a warranty, take to it Mercedes for the warranty work. If you don't have a warranty it doesn't matter.
> it is frustrating that apple doesn’t believe its costumers. What's notable here is there is 49 pages of seemingly mostly "me too". It should give Apple at the very least pause for reevaluation of their stance. One guy saying "I didn't do it man" is not evidence, but a clearly non coordinated global trend of people claiming the same thing? Pretty compelling.
What's more surprising to me is that they haven't yet deleted the thread. This has happened many times in the past (customers complaining about widespread defects on Apple's support forum) and Apple usually deletes the threads or moderates them down enough to make it look plausibly deniable. My guess is that the current class action will probably look unfavourably upon such an action given there are more eyeballs on…
The internet never forgets...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You and NorwegianDude wrote the same thing. >can't risk paying for it yourself. is intended to mean >can’t afford for themselves.
“Insurance is never a good idea in general” is a bit too extreme. Not all hedges have to be about protecting you from a wipeout. It’s about opportunity cost for the premium vs the risk (magnitude x probability).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sitting in a car with 150k miles on it, with the original windshield. It has one chip from when I followed a gravel truck too closely once. Sometimes I even take it to a carwash in the summer with a baking hot windshield. Sometime I turn on the heater in the winter while it's snowing. Amazingly, engineers have designed a glass product that is as heavy, thick, coated, whatever... To survive common usage for a deca…
> My car windshield defies the laws of physics, so Apple's devices should too! You do not understand thermal shock. Remove your windshield and bring it inside. Lower your thermostat to 63° and let your windshield equalize at that temperature overnight. When the outside temperature reaches 90° the next day, rush your windshield outside. Conversely, wait until winter and your windshield is left overnight in 35° tempera…
Your winter water idea shows you might almost understand water conducts better than air. So it's just proof you don't read well. And either way, it's 1000x more extreme than what an laptop screen experiences.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m anecdotally writing this on a 2012 15” rMacBook Pro that aside from some battery replacements just doesn’t want to die… It blows all the “premium” work laptops out of the water.
> It blows all the “premium” work laptops out of the water. I disagree. I loved my Thinkpad T450s so much I bought an identical used machine when I quit the job. Since then it's been stepped on, dropped onto concrete multiple times, had beer and wine spilled on the keyboard. It cost me $250 + $100 for a battery replacement + $34 for a new keyboard (when the wine spilled on it, it still worked but the keys were sticky…
See https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/hvb60f/thinkpad_t...
and https://twitter.com/jacobgorm/status/1496099294159544321 for an acceptable workaround using Sugru.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's only been 10 days, can you return it? That seems extreme, yet maybe expected if something didn't quite pass QA, it might show up that early. I can confirm that at a real Apple Store I've had genius bar folks take photos of everything also. Seems to be Apple policy these days, if they feel like it, to more easily blame the customer. Doesn't always happen though, and sometimes it helps - e.g. I received a "repa…
India doesn't have return policies like US. Once you buy the product, there is literally no way to return in. I have lived in both the places and there is a stark difference between policies.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My car windshield defies the laws of physics, so Apple's devices should too! You do not understand thermal shock. Remove your windshield and bring it inside. Lower your thermostat to 63° and let your windshield equalize at that temperature overnight. When the outside temperature reaches 90° the next day, rush your windshield outside. Conversely, wait until winter and your windshield is left overnight in 35° tempera…
? I explained in my post I take it to car washes on hot days. Cold water conducts way better than your idea of "shock" via air and sun rays. Your winter water idea shows you might almost understand water conducts better than air. So it's just proof you don't read well. And either way, it's 1000x more extreme than what an laptop screen experiences.
What is required is a sudden change in temperature. For something as thick a car windshield, you'll need a near instantaneous 40° temperature change. If your car windshield was blazing at 150°F and you tossed a bucket full of cold, equalized ice water on it, it's going to shatter.
But you have some good ideas, and I welcome new Apple laptops with quarter inch thick glass displays.