MacBook Pros Plagued With Keyboard, Trackpad Problems

[rohitbaran]

I was expecting a lot of humorous comments on this article. I am not disappointed.

 

[baoson]

"Indeed use cases are different for different people. Playing games may not be the bestg on a MBP, but it makes one helluva work laptop. In terms of overheating though, those temps are a bit ridiculous. The CPU would have throttled before it got to 95C"

So which laptop is really a work horse? my M4700 with a Quadro or the rMBP with a consumer Geforce? Also, if the rMBP gets really hot playing a few 3d games, how do you think it will cope with 3dmax, Solidworks, Autodesk Maya, Premiere etc...those are serious works there. Unless you mean surfing the net, posting comments on facebook... are works because it seem like the rMBP great for just those tasks.

Also, professional software run better and more efficient on Windows. Since Apple drop the balls on Final Cut pro, by not having hard ware acceleration support. And they don't have any Pro-grade GPU on any of their so called Pro laptops.

The Nvidia GPU is designed to have max thermal at 105C. So 95C is not there yet, but still, it is very hot. If it is pushed to the limit like that daily, there will be serious damage to all the solder joints. Of course, most MBP users don't experience that because facebook, internet browser, twitter don't push the limit of the GPU.

 

[burkhartmj]

Just because you cannot afford a Mac that does not mean it's bad. Just because you have never used one it does not mean it is not better than Windows. The only thing keeping me and others like me using Windows is that we own a lot of software for Windows or because there is no real equivalent on Mac. I use both Mac and Windows 8.1 and I find myself loving the Mac more and more. And keep that in mind...I NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH MY MAC, AND WHEN I HAD ONE DEAD PIXEL ON MY MBP Retina 15, GUESS WHAT, APPLE CHANGED THE ENTIRE SCREEN. NOW GO BACK TO YOUR CRAPPY HP, DELL, LENOVO, ACER OR OTHER BUDGET LAPTOP AND DO THE SAME...IT DOESN'T WORK I KNOW!!!! I TRIED THEM ALL! The only problem is that you pay a lot at the beginning but you also get something else. Be honest people, Apple hardware with or without Steve is awesome, I even run Windows on my Macbook PRO and I prefer it to any laptop, any manufacturer. Yeah I know this is truly incredible but it's true, it works better. I use my Windows 8.1 desktop only to run VMware Workstation with a lot of VMs. Take the web browsing experience on MAC, it's years ahead of the experience you have on Windows.

I'm conflicted. I want to rip this post apart, but I don't want to engage with an ignorant troll.

Read the whole post. He is just making a point. Allot of people do complain about the price of Apple computers. He is not saying that everyone that does not like Mac can't afford one. Maybe he could have worded it a bit better but his statement in general is about his experience with Apple thus far. He is not bashing the PC.

Sorry bro, but he's doing way more than that. he starts out using inverse statements to state the superiority of Macs ["just because you've never owned one doesn't mean it's not better"], talks about a support experience with Apple and claims it's better than everyone else [which isn't true, I've had a dell tech come to my house next day and replace a mainboard and screen], calls a macbook 'incredible,' then makes the claim that web surfing [WEB SURFING] is years ahead of Windows, when Safari and IE are equally jokes and most people use Chrome or Firefox anyway, both of which are cross platform. He's just a crazed troll.

In regards to your previous reply to me, I tend to agree. I've dealt with people on both spectrums of both sides, and I'll take humble mac users over arrogant DIY'ers any day, even as a DIY'er myself.

Having friends with macbooks ask me to help them with issues, I genuinely don't like their software or how they build their hardware, but I don't begrudge people their preferences.