Note that this is a 22 day old Reddit post (seems relevant as it’s few weeks before the battery replacement program announcement).
My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’ll be interesting to compare the public reception of this incident versus the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 event, especially given Apple’s PR prowess. Seems like a similar sort of incident, though maybe even rarer to actually encounter given how old the laptops are now.
The difference here is a single (known) instance of a 4 year old product vs widespread issues with a brand new one on release.
Well, I think it's more likely that the fact that it's a notebook will make this less of a PR issue. HN is kind of a unique place, but out in reality land the set of people who take their 15" notebook with them everywhere, including the airplane, is much smaller than the number of people who take their phones with them everywhere. So it's hard to capture the public imagination with a notebook.
Apple releasing a new phone is an event not only for a lot of developers, but also for your average teeny bopper and housewife.
Apple releasing a brand new laptop is just...
not.
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#13Seems like the person filing is inhaling a fair bit of smoke. Wonder how toxic that is.
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#14First a samsung phone and now this.
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#15>I produce music for a living - FIVE days without my computer is unacceptable
Then get two computers as a backup?
While here it's Apple's issue, it could just as well be your fault that the laptop died (e.g. dropping it).
Then you wouldn't have any laptop, but also no justification to demand an immediate replacement or deem not receiving one "unacceptable"...
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#16My desktop caught fire once. I pulled the plug and the fire went out. Turns out the graphics card burst into flames. That had never happened to me before in 40 years of desktops. I had a fair amount of smoke damage that needed cleaning up. Now it sits on a piece of sheet steel instead of the wood floor. Edit: I usually assemble my desktop cases from mail order parts. This desktop happened to have a metal case rather…
> I usually assemble my desktop cases from mail order parts.
Doesn't everybody? I mean unless you are building a case from scratch. I also don't know of any plastic desktop cases, they're either steel or aluminum.
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#17My desktop caught fire once. I pulled the plug and the fire went out. Turns out the graphics card burst into flames. That had never happened to me before in 40 years of desktops. I had a fair amount of smoke damage that needed cleaning up. Now it sits on a piece of sheet steel instead of the wood floor. Edit: I usually assemble my desktop cases from mail order parts. This desktop happened to have a metal case rather…
> I usually assemble my desktop cases from mail order parts. Doesn't everybody? I mean unless you are building a case from scratch. I also don't know of any plastic desktop cases, they're either steel or aluminum.
> I also don't know of any plastic desktop cases
I have many in the basement housing older desktops.
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#18> I produce music for a living - FIVE days without my computer is unacceptable Then get two computers as a backup? While here it's Apple's issue, it could just as well be your fault that the laptop died (e.g. dropping it). Then you wouldn't have any laptop, but also no justification to demand an immediate replacement or deem not receiving one "unacceptable"...
Yeah, professional mindset grants for backup plans. Unless you like walking on wires.
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#19> I produce music for a living - FIVE days without my computer is unacceptable Then get two computers as a backup? While here it's Apple's issue, it could just as well be your fault that the laptop died (e.g. dropping it). Then you wouldn't have any laptop, but also no justification to demand an immediate replacement or deem not receiving one "unacceptable"...
If a working MacBook would really be as strictly needed as he states it (earning his living with it). He could have simply bought a new one, not able to work for a week may be more financial damage.
And Apple has a 14 day return policy, he is absolutely overstating the impact a missing macbook has for him!
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#20My desktop caught fire once. I pulled the plug and the fire went out. Turns out the graphics card burst into flames. That had never happened to me before in 40 years of desktops. I had a fair amount of smoke damage that needed cleaning up. Now it sits on a piece of sheet steel instead of the wood floor. Edit: I usually assemble my desktop cases from mail order parts. This desktop happened to have a metal case rather…
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