On Dec 12, 2006, at 6:38 AM, Hans Fugal wrote:
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 at 10:45 -0700, Christer Edwards wrote:
This is a shoutout to all of you mac users out there. Everyone
else can
safely disregard this message.
I convinced a co-worker to buy a macbook instead of a new PC and,
somehow, he has managed to have it crash during his second day of
use.
The issue now is that anything over 256 colors has a very garbled
display--looks like 8bit color (really crappy) and doesn't display
correctly.
It does sound like a video card problem. AppleCare or no, you've
got 90
days (minus two?) that they'll take care of you for sure.
"My" macbook (technically it belongs to the school even though my
fellowship bought it for me, don't you love red tape) is faster and
has
a wider screen than the old iBook. The video card is no better than
the
iBook's though, and it might even be worse; I'm not sure. I understand
macbook pro has better video cards though.
My iBook never crashed, this thing crashes almost half as often as
Windows. Is that Intel's fault or bugs from the crossover that haven't
been eliminated? I don't know. I've never had any trouble at all with
recovery, though. Journaled filesystems are a joy.
There's something wrong with your machine, or the software on it. I
wouldn't put up with it. Take it back in every time it crashes (Or
take pictures everytime and save them up for a trip to the apple
store.) until they replace parts or give you a new machine. They
will eventually. :)
-Blake
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