A New Support Headache for Apple -- and Mac Fans?

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  jaytee32

  10/29/09 | Report as spam

  RE: A New Support Headache for Apple -- and Mac Fans?

  I play poker, and I see a lot of this. It's pretty funny, actually. People get hit with a downswing and immediately their misfortune is disproportionately projected across every hand of poker they ever played. Try using Time Machine, Om.
  
  I'm sure the "fanboy" (nice bias) - and larger consumer communities will get along fine in the face of this one-person pandemic. But I wish you well in all your click-baiting.
  
  EDIT: you're a ZDNet affiliate? SHOCKING!

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  ErikSherman

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  RE: A New Support Headache for Apple -- and Mac Fans?

  That's a whole lot of statistically unlikely failures, one after the other. But then, I guess that doesn't count, just like the reports of iPods and iPhones overheating didn't. Fanboy.

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  jaytee32

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  RE: A New Support Headache for Apple -- and Mac Fans?

  Maybe I'm reading something wrong: that's one person reporting 3 failures, correct? And I didn't see anything about how generally wide-spread the phenomenon is. If you're going to graduate to real journalism someday, your content may involve a little more than blog-sourcing with zero context. It's work, man!
  
  GL on M$'s next earnings call. Keep chasing those PC margins into the basement, Wintard.

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  ErikSherman

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  RE: A New Support Headache for Apple -- and Mac Fans?

  Uh oh - worse than a fanboy. A dedicated investor. There have been reports over the last few months of MBP hard drives freezing up - enough of a problem that Apple had acknowledged it and was working on a fix. But this is the indication of more serious hard drive failures. Given that it's Om Malik, a self-described Mac fanboy, I take the report seriously and know enough about standard hardware failure rates to also know that three in a row are incredibly unlikely to be random chance. But, you will believe what you wish, I'm guessing.

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  jaytee32

  10/30/09 | Report as spam

  RE: A New Support Headache for Apple -- and Mac Fans?

  Actually, I am an investor. Got in at $93, thanks. Hope you get in before the "Win 7 bump". LOL.
  
  The "acknowledgment" by Apple you speak of: "We were told that there were some problems with the hard disks of these 15-inch MacBook Pros. Anyway, they gave me a new machine."
  Is this the passage you're referring to? So this is...an employee at the Apple Store?
  
  I can tell you what it's not. It's not a press release, it's not a Apple Knowledge Base reference and it's not from an official correspondence from Apple. The title of the post is "3 Times Unlucky or the Start of a Larger Trend?".
  
  Lot hardware failures happen all the time - by all manufacturers. What you try to do is take one person's experience (a "fanboy", so you know it must be HUGE problem), take a quote out of context and fabricate something out out of the ether. And you don't even do it well!
  
  You're another hack blogger looking to make a click-thru buck off the back of a company that's been embarrassing your mothership for the last 10 years. Suck the failure, and have a nice day.
  

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  ErikSherman

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  RE: A New Support Headache for Apple -- and Mac Fans?

  The number of investors I've seen who flail when someone says something they don't like about Apple truly amazes me. Keep telling yourself that nothing could be wrong. No skin off my nose.