My spacebar randomly stopped working on my work Macbook today. The only way I am able to write this is by using copy/paste on a text space from an old email. Oh yeah, and the Delete key doesn't work.
Nor does the apostrophe.
Caps Lock? Nope.
Arrowkeys? Nope.
Go ahead and try typing without any of those keys. I dare you. This is what is scienctifically known as "a pain in the ass". Macs are what are scientifically known as "pieces of crap".
I don't want to come across as a PC fanboy, but this is just another in a long list of issues that have plagued this overpriced white brick. For instance, after 2 months of use, the motherboard failed. Fine. It was still under warranty.
After that, it stopped ejecting CDs. It fails when trying to shut down, and it freezes when trying to wake back up. It refuses to register the first two or three keystrokes when I start typing. It is slower than my nine year old Dell. It is unable to multitask three or more programs. And about a month ago, it decided to stop printing in color (it thought the best thing for it to do was to randomly delete my printer drivers — that one I was actually able to resolve).
Computers will have problems; I accept that. But this is getting out of hand. If you pay double the cost of a normal laptop, only to find it sucks horribly you'd be justified in being upset. If you paid double for 10 Macs for your lab, only to have 8 of them break to the point of being unuseable, you'd be forgiven for going into conniptions. And let's be clear: I'm not making that number up. My advisor has a fear of PCs and will ridicule anyone who doesn't use a Mac, yet nearly all of his rigs have failed miserabley.
Okay, I couldn't take it anymore, so I had to finish this on my PC at home. Ahh... it's nice to have something that "just works" for once.
EDIT:I attempted to reset the SMC after shutting down the Macbook. When I tried to put the battery back in, I found it to be obstructed by A SCREW THAT RANDOMLY FELL OUT OF THE CASE FROM SOMEWHERE. I have no idea where it came from, nor whether it is important. That brings my grand total of spontaneously escaping screws up to 2. Three other screws in the battery housing are loose. What a marvel of build quality.
Monday, March 09, 2009
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Sounds like you were using this.
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