This isn’t the first Mac I’ve owned. Although the iPhone is probably the best phone out there, Mac computers are crap. I found an old blog entry that I wrote when both mine and wifey’s iBook G3 failed at the same time. I also had an extremely hard time replacing the slow 4,200 rpm hard drive in my old iBook. To date, the new MacBooks are still running 5,400 rpm drives. Give me a break, Dell’s already selling laptops with 7,200 rpm drives.
After making three trips to the Apple Service Center at AMK for motherboard, display and power adapter failures, I sold my problematic iBook. Wifey wasn’t so lucky and her iBook failed on her before she could sell it so we sold the parts – AirPort card, power adapter, battery, etc. for money instead. The unsold remains are still in my room.
I’m using my (sis’s) MacBook now and the adapter has been acting up for the past few days. It would go on and off intermittently but with some wriggling of the wire near the power brick, the problem goes away. I knew the wires were fraying, but there’s nothing I could do about it. Apple didn’t design their things to be user-serviceable, otherwise I would have taken it apart and soldered the wire. Apple needs to go green with their service program!