Saint of Killers wrote:Apple are a right bunch of sketchy strawberry floaters:
1:01 - A1226/A1260 2007-2008 Macbook GPU failures, warranty service refusal
2:21 - A1226/A1260 2007-2008 Macbook Pro hinge/frame problem
3:16 - A1286 Macbook Pro - the "Unibody" myth, glued together pieces fall apart
4:58 - A1286/A1297 MCP power circuit failure due to poor buck converter design: C7771 issue
6:01 - iPhone 4 cellular placement fail 7:12 - iPhone 5 power button problem
7:27 - A1286 2010 Macbook Pro GPU kernel panics due to same buck converter defect from 2008/2009(this gives you a hint that apple engineers doesn't give a crap about engineering good products, same design flaw for three straight years)
10:04 - A1286 2011 Macbook Pro GPU failure, Apple gets sued over not addressing problem.
11:43 - Apple gives out badly refurbished boards as warranty replacements for 2011 GPU failures.
13:06 - 2012 Retina Macbook Pro: another motherboard issue (U8900), due to poor soldering/manufacturing method on the GPU buck converter. 14:46 - Mac Pro GPU failure (again).
16:27 - iPhone 6/6+ touchscreen issue due to structural issue.
18:23 - SSD soldered straight into the motherboard+ chip that would kill the macbook, because a power line would short out to ground when the chip dies.
20:18 - 2016 Macbook keyboard reliability issue.
21:52 - 2016 Macbook Battery failure issue.
22:50 - A1278 Macbook Pro SATA cable failures(yes, really).
Ignore the cheesy acting in the Linus video and the stupid thumbnail white text in Louis Rossmann's. Apple are so anti-consumer it's mind boggling. Yeah, it hasn't happened to many in this thread and I am genuinely happy for you, but after learning of this gooseberry fool I have sworn I will never buy their products until they change their ways.
I have the 2010 model in that video featured at 7:27. It cost £1650 and grey screen of deaths multiple times per day (as in multiple times per hour at worst). I have to use an app called GfxCardStatus to force the machine to only use the i7's graphics, which takes 512MB of memory out of action and disables all hardware graphics acelleration, and some apps won't work without that. I've bought the replacement capacitors and just need to get an electrical engineer friend of mine to fit it, but it's hillarious that single component failure can kill such an expensive machine within a few years.
So yeah, don't assume MacBooks are reliable machines. They by definition aren't.
I also wasn't elegible for that extended warranty even though my machine was registered with Apple I wasn't aware of it. These should be product recall issues but instead they are public secrets because fanboys or apple don't want to recognise the problems.
(I also had to replace a part for the wifi which died for no reason. As well as the backspace key after just a few weeks.)
(Oh and I also had to replace the power supply after it singed i.e. shorted, and almost set fire. They cost £85. I managed to get a free one after debating with a "genius" for about an hour based on consumer protection law but they blacked out the serial code so that I couldn't get a replacement of that one if it fails.)
So that's 4 pretty serious hardware failures for a £1650 top spec, top of the line machine. Apples design is good, but not perfect, their engineering is 100% geared towards pleasing aesthetics and not functionality. Make of this what you will.