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posted on February 19th, 2008 in just blogging

Sorry for the flood of blog posts today but with all the mom health issues and MacBook Air drama most of the posts were saved as draft or written in TextMate and today I finally had time to post them all.

As I mentioned in my last post, I was having some issues with my MacBook Air and it’s fans. I set up the latest MacBook Air and putzed around very little with it. I was very happy that it seemed I had finally gotten a good one , that is until Sunday evening. Sunday evening brought some free time and Pinoyboy and decided to do a video chat with iChat. It started nice enough, but then my processors hit 78%, each. I was only running iChat and Finder. That’s crazy. Next the fans kicked in, and sure enuff, one processor core shut off and the other railed until… it shut down. Grrr.

So this afternoon, I drove all the way BACK to Ardmore and this time I decided to just return the MacBook Air and get a new 2.2 GHz MacBook. After three times, I just didn’t feel I’d get one that would be perfect. They were very nice and returned it with very little fuss and they were super apologetic. I have to say as nice as the new MacBook is, I miss the Air. I really enjoyed that MacBook Air. I just wish I could’ve gotten one that wasn’t jacked up. All in all I would still recommend the Air. I also think I will definitely buy one again, maybe after the first revision? I guess we’ll see.

Wow look at all the comments!

Sorry about your troubles with the Apple Stores (you should see the new one in the Meat Market in NYC!).

Question — how can you still recommend this when you went through three in almost that many days? First generation or not, you seem to still miss something that did not work right at all!

said by Jeffrey Keefer on February 21st, 2008 at 2:28 pm

I can because the machine is amazing. I’ll be honest, if the Apple Store were not over an hour from my house, I’d have gotten a fourth one. I understand that first generation products often have trouble with their production and it’s the price I pay for being an early adopter. It’s not the first gen product I’ve purchased from Apple and it won’t be the last. I must say however that this time around they were much better than they have been in past about replacements. Also if that first one hadn’t been cosmetically bad… I’d still be happily using an Air!

said by macboyx on February 21st, 2008 at 4:35 pm

Interesting. The first Apple product I ever bought was a first generation iPod Nano. It was so problematic (the battery did not last, the volume did not get too loud, the machine froze numerous times) that it turned me off to Apple for several years. Now that I think about it, I wonder if there really is much of a difference between first generation Apple items and those by Microsoft?

To be fair, I am still waiting for them to fix the slowdowns from Vista!

said by Jeffrey Keefer on February 21st, 2008 at 8:00 pm

Go on... say something. You know you want to.

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