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    Best Buy Sells Customer a Large Brick In Place of a MacBook Pro. Literally.

    Why It's Safer Than Ever To Buy First-Generation Hardware

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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    04/29/09

    In reply to Best Buy Sells Customer a Large Brick In Place of a MacBook Pro. Literally.
    I have GOT to think someone would've noticed a weight difference. I own a Macbook Pro. I have held a brick. They do not weigh the same.
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    04/29/09

    @OCEntertainment: I don't believe you. There's no way possible that you've actually held a brick.
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    04/29/09

    In reply to Best Buy Sells Customer a Large Brick In Place of a MacBook Pro. Literally.
    It's traceable. Whoever bought it in the first place had to use a credit card. Second they can trace the serial # and wireless network # on the box, which I'm sure the swapper didn't bother to swap out. Yea you can say you bought it from some dude on the street but if the credit card or surveillance pic matches you, bye-bye to you. I'm sure the person is gonna get caught.
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    04/29/09

    @Earthslide: Cash still works.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    04/29/09

    @strider_mt2k: You're just saying that because on every note printed (in the USA) it states "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE"


    And just because they ask for your name, zip code and phone number, doesn't mean you have to give it to them.

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    04/29/09

    In reply to Best Buy Sells Customer a Large Brick In Place of a MacBook Pro. Literally.
    Even when it smacks them in the face, some people refuse to recognize good fortune like this. After 23 years of relentless hounding from his shrewish wife, this unexpected paving stone could have served as the fortuitous catalyst to finally remodeling their ramshackle home and simultaneously achieving the marital bliss that always eluded them. But, noooooo, he wants his damn computer.
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    04/29/09

    @bosskev: That sir, wins you the Comment of Genius Award, invented and rewarded by me as I type this. Cherish it because you deserve it.


    That was downright hilarious.

    Considered yourself followed. [And I don't follow anyone...]

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    04/29/09

    @Nathan Trumbull: Honored and excited, I shall make room for the award on my mantle. Not only that, I'll dust it off. Heck, I'll even break out the Lemon Pledge®.



    BOSSKEV: Winner of the Prestigious Comment of Genius Award !
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    04/29/09

    @bosskev:

    /singing/ Real Commentor of Genius


    Thanks to you, Mr. Real Commentor of Genius, we can now unabashedly burst out in laughter in the middle of our dull and monochrome cube farms each and every day.


    /singing/ Real Commentor of Genius


    Mr. Real Commentor of Genius, with your wit and savoir faire, we can enjoy the relentless bashing of Internet trolls and send them back under their Linksys WET54G bridge.


    /singing/ Real Commentor of Genius


    And yes, Mr. Real Commentor of Genius, only your tact makes us all proud to be a member/reader/(lesser) commentor of the blog that OMG! Ponies! frequents.


    /singing/ Real Commentor of Genius

    Here's to you Mr. Real Commentor of Genius.

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    04/29/09

    @Geisrud - MS150 fundraising time!: That deserves some recognition. You get the "Adam Curry Song Of The Day Award". Here's a blond wig and weathered leather motorcycle jacket.


    /s

    OMG! Ponies!



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    04/29/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: See your "Messages".
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    04/29/09

    In reply to Best Buy Sells Customer a Large Brick In Place of a MacBook Pro. Literally.
    Or he stole the computer, replaced it with a brick, and pretended it came that way. Otherwise, it's probably some disgruntled employee who found out he or she was getting the can.
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    04/29/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: somone check his yard. is he missing anything in the walkway?
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    10/30/08

    In reply to Why It's Safer Than Ever To Buy First-Generation Hardware
    i don't really think it matters how hard you guys here at giz try to plug the new mb and the mbp. no one really wants 'em. they are a downgrade
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    10/30/08

    @azzilla: The MB has some serious downsides, but what's so wrong with the MBP? As far as I can tell, it's a pretty good bump up.
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    10/30/08

    In reply to Why It's Safer Than Ever To Buy First-Generation Hardware
    I'd like to throw out one more explanation. A lot of the "rev 1 curse" notion is directed specifically at Apple -- for years, the conventional wisdom was to "wait for the first revision" for anything that came out of there.


    This pretty much disappeared when Apple switched to Intel processors. The PowerPC chips they used always consumed immense amounts of energy and spewed a great deal of heat. You might even recall that Jobs cited "power per watt" as more of an incentive for switching than sheer performance. Regardless, I haven't heard of any truly serious problems with any first-generation machine from Apple for a couple years now.

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    10/30/08

    @Cowboy_X: And you're right. The first Intel laptop line had its share of teething pains, but the recent lineup for the passed 2 years has actually been rather good, or at least no worse than comparable systems. So far, there hasn't been anything remotely similar to the dreaded iBook G3 logicboard problem.
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    10/30/08

    @Kaiser-Machead's LEGO Hug Machine (with Cookies): Actually, no, the RSD issue was pretty bad, but the hardware involved wasn't as extensive as the logicboard problem. It was just a bit of bad wiring.
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    Image of rdelfin rdelfin
    10/30/08

    In reply to Why It's Safer Than Ever To Buy First-Generation Hardware
    I'm surprised that Apple is considered one of the companies with lesser risk for getting newly introduced products (first round), since I'm convinced that they serious issues with their QA procedures (constant recalls, patches, returns, forums full of complaints, etc).
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    10/30/08

    @rdelfin: Apple has its own share of issues. I'm the first to admit that. =)
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    10/30/08

    In reply to Why It's Safer Than Ever To Buy First-Generation Hardware
    I'm never buying rev1 hardware. Ever. Especially after the having to copiously apply aloe from the times Apple's burned me.


    Rev1 MacBook - the trim started to peel within 6 months and the drive died two weeks out of warranty.


    Rev1 iPod classic - power connector died after nine months.


    Rev1 iPhone 3G - nuff said.


    Then again, my launch-day XBox 360 RRoDed after 15 months. Personally, I think it's high time that electronic manufacturers get held to the same standard as auto manufacturers.

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    Image of RacecarBoobTat RacecarBoobTat
    10/30/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: Hah! Auto manufacturers are just as bad. And when it comes to replacement parts, well that's a complete crapshoot. I once had to return two alternators in a row just to finally get one off the shelf that worked. I've also had an ignition coil DOA.


    And once manufacturing moves out of China and into the next supercheap developing country, expect QA to drop significantly and slowly start working it's way back up again over another 20-year cycle.

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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    10/30/08

    @RacecarBoobTat: And how many times have you heard "Oh, the truck's in the shop, ____ blew out after 10,000 miles..."
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    10/30/08

    @RacecarBoobTat: Are they actually building new alternators these days? I thought they were merely rebuilding the old ones over and over again to keep gouging you...


    My '99 Grand Am... Ho boy. 4 serpentine belts, LIM gasket, 37 tail light bulbs, 2 blower resister packs, water pump, 3 alternators, power steering pump, 9 headlight bulbs, rotors planed 3x each, 2 sets of rotors... *sigh* I hated that car.

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    10/30/08

    @Con Seannery: Foreign or domestic vehicle? Heh, and if foreign, which brand?
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    10/30/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: "Personally, I think it's high time that electronic manufacturers get held to the same standard as auto manufacturers."


    You mean like the Ford Pinto standard or Firestone standard?

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    10/30/08

    @Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: And look what that did for business.


    If people wrote off tech companies after getting dud rev1 hardware like they do with cars, we'd get better gadgets. My mom swore off Volkswagen after her VW Rabbit stalled out on train tracks. Chevy's reputation never really recovered after the Nova turned out to be crap. The Edsel was a DOA dud. The exploding Firestone tires killed the brand name.


    If tech companies suffered the same PR damage as car companies, the Microsoft brand would be completely in the crapper.

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    10/30/08

    In reply to Why It's Safer Than Ever To Buy First-Generation Hardware
    One more argument for early adopting - while some tweaks to successive generations are improvements, many merely make the product cheaper to improve the bottom line. For instance, the 3G's plastic body vs the first gen's metal body.
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    10/30/08

    In reply to Why It's Safer Than Ever To Buy First-Generation Hardware
    I don't know any "true" dedicate Apple Fanboy that doesn't wait until Rev C of an Apple hardware line to come out... Even they have their production issues, things that tend not to be software problems, but yield problems.


    All systems experience initial yield issues like the XBOX 360 does, usually most of these are ironed out so that you have better than 70% yield prior to release to the public. Which means That 30% of the product just doesn't work at production time, and that this carries over into overall general build quality for first gen hardware.

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    Image of MrBlahBlah MrBlahBlah
    10/30/08

    In reply to Why It's Safer Than Ever To Buy First-Generation Hardware
    For some reason, I feel like being an early apple adopter always ends up feeling like a kick in the balls. I don't know why I don't feel like this for other companies.
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    10/30/08

    @MrBlahBlah: I think that throughout the plastic macbook updates, the only thing I really cared about throughout all of it was the inclusion of the dual layer Superdrive, which was not available on any model in 2006.
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    10/30/08

    In reply to Why It's Safer Than Ever To Buy First-Generation Hardware
    Then I guess you wouldn't want to watch this...


    [www.hulu.com]

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    10/30/08

    @Kaiser-Machead's LEGO Hug Machine (with Cookies): Woops. Meant as a response to nutbastard.
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    10/30/08

    In reply to Why It's Safer Than Ever To Buy First-Generation Hardware
    Holy fucking shit I would trade my eternal soul just to never hear the word "maverick" again.
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    10/30/08

    @nutbastard: give me your eternal soul, and I will cut off your ears (not that this would stop you from hearing), you made no mention of "seeing" the word "maverick", so there you go my friend!
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    10/30/08

    @nutbastard: nutbastard, I did not realize you still had a soul to trade.
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    10/30/08

    @nutbastard: I was going to comment with just that word and an exclamation point, but I'll spare you.
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    10/30/08

    @GadgetPlay: with just what word?
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    10/30/08

    @Anonymoose: MAV.....oh....you're not gonna trick me again.
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    10/30/08

    @getz76:


    I had a few spare copies when i was younger, which is good because I can't find the original - just in case heaven is anything like the DMV.

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    10/30/08

    @nutbastard:
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    10/30/08

    @nutbastard: I guess that means you don't want to read it either...
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    10/30/08

    @nutbastard: So... how's that Dallas NBA team doing? Hmm. I forgot, what were they called?
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    10/30/08

    In reply to Why It's Safer Than Ever To Buy First-Generation Hardware
    As long as it's under $250 then I'll be a maverick.
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    10/30/08

    In reply to Why It's Safer Than Ever To Buy First-Generation Hardware
    Good writeup. I think that, for me, it's not so much about first run niggles in the hardware anymore, but rather wanting to squeeze out as much as I can out of my previous purchase. I jumped and bought the first run Macbook as soon as they were released, and found myself eventually dealing with a few snags along the way, from Random Shutdown Syndrome because of bad wiring around the fan, to display flicker about 2 years down the road because of a failing inverter. Had Apple's service not been speedy on both occasions, and had I not purchased the Applecare warranty that allowed me to get a free repair on the display flicker, I would've been pissed.


    That said, I'm gonna sell this badboy and get me a Macbook Pro. Ooooh baby.

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