Why my Mac OSX experience isn’t any better?

lol.. yep keep your flames this is based on experience.. i just want to run mac os on my core 2 duo laptop though haha just dont have enough time and all those hoops and loops

A friend of mine, A Mac fanatic and sort of pro technician, told me to wait for a while before buying Mac Air. The first batches comes with a bug/defect in the logic board/logic system resulting to some serious performance issues. I’ll probably wait until 2011 Q2 before buying the Mac Air just so they can clear out their supposedly defective stocks. As a general rule, I usually don’t rush on buying devices/gadgets straight from launching in order to sieve issues and so that I can buy when the price is right already.

Maybe @Dan is right. Wife’s got an iMac and macbook, and she havent experienced the crashes, and no system lags (she’s using it for web design applications).

we use and maintain both Mac and Windows, to utilize the best of both worlds.

hi abe, you might want to call apple support and complain about the crashes.

Actually, my previous post was really meant for the current gen Mac Air. According to my friend, the technician, the first batches of Mac Air had issues so its better to wait out ’till next year. But I do agree that the current Mac Airs are theoretically better and more aesthetically pleasing. ;)

oh noes!. Planning to buy a MB pro 13″ this 2011 :(

I used Windows about 6 months. Then i buy an iMac 24″. Then never back to Windows again because its so horrible OS. Always crashes, you need to restart, error here and there, freezing… and etc that you can name of. I never return to Windows again. Haven’t any problem using iMac and MacBook Pro. Just Safari quits for some Flash error something… I never turn off my MacBook Pro, i just close the lid after using then put it in the bag. Unlike Windows base laptop before that it never sleep, its like what Abe’s experience… it can cook pancake.

should’ve gone with the MBP

Even if it’s the first 11 inch Macbook air out, it’s still third gen.

I still doubt it’s a hardware issue. Or if it is, it should be isolated. I saw a somone use an 11-inch as the heart of a three-monitor setup and he said it runs like fine.

I am not experiencing any of the same problems. You may want to have it checked. Maybe it got damage when it fell and got banged on the side of a table. I have a third generation MBA for more than a month now, and am not experiencing any of the problems you have.

As for the Mac OSX. This is my first Mac. I like it fine. I do not love it. But I am O.S. neutral… this is being type from a HP Compaq laptop running Ubuntu 10.10 and I use Windows too :)

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@Yuga
I think there’s an EFI firmware update… for the MBAs. You should check. :P

What Robin said.

Could be the sleep sensor when you close the lid got faulty when you dropped your Air.

then you didnt bought the right mac for you.:)

and PS: dont open ALL applications at once. HAHAHH

Hats off to the Apple fanboys here so far, it’s been a constructive and mature thread. :)

Like Abe said, no machine or OS is perfect. What I really look forward to is Abe’s personal feedback on using Ubuntu Linux in the near future. That would be something for the history books.

I coexist with windows and mac.

– i use a fairly ancient PC at the office for work and just bring my iPad
– at home, my macbook sort of doubles as a glorified wifi router since i use my iPad mostly at home also

here are some additional things i hope you can take a look at:

1) searching for files – have you tried this on a mac? you’ll find how amazingly easy and fast it is. the upside on my office PC is that i’m super organized with my files because i can’t rely on its search function which will take hours. :P

2) crashes – i walk on eggshells when i use a PC and i consciously make sure i don’t open too many applications lest it crashes. on a mac, yes i experience crashes and quite frequently too, with how i use my laptop for blogging, opening at least 10 windows on a single web browser, etc. the difference is, based on my experience is that on a PC it’s harder to recover from a crash, from bootup all the way to recovery.

3) wake from sleep – ah well, that happens to me too. not sure if it can be done on a PC without driving your hard drive to suicide.

i seriously doubt it’s your OS. i’ve been using a mac for the past 8 or so years and i still use a PC for work. i know the difference between the two in terms of OS. if the problems you are having are that serious, or if you just feel incredibly let down because of all the hype you heard about the mac, then the best solution is to get your laptop checked.

which brings me to one more important wonderful thing about macs, hardware or software wise:

after sales support is excellent. if it’s defective, it will be replaced. at most, within a month since everything goes through singapore. how many can say that about a PC? (and i’ve listened to my friends’ rants patiently over the years – once their PC is busted servicing is doubtful, expensive, and there’s little quality assurance. i personally don’t want to bring my busted computer to an unknown PC shop for cheaper service simply because i have no reliable warranty from the brand that sells the PC to rely on)

in any case, of course the pressure must be strong for you to switch mac considering this is a tech site and apple is the undisputed tech leader at this juncture. there are plenty of alternatives, even to the windows OS and i wish you the best of luck. sayang lang, though, if you give up on the mac without even fully understanding how it works and what its potential could be. :)

Same experience here. Too many crashes on Mac OS X than on Windows 7. But heck, I love my Mac. The first time I saw a white Macbook, I instantly fell in love with it. Without knowing anything about Macs hardware nor software, I just wanted to buy a Mac right then and there. And so I bought a Mac Unibody. I was really happy buying the Mac and experiencing the hardware and software wonders that came with it especially the newly then glass trackpad. The trackpad was a heaven sent. The mouse suddenly became alien to me and never used a mouse again when I’m on OS X. Personally, it was the Mac’s hardware that attracted me to buy a Mac. But when Windows 7 came to the world, and with the one-of-a-kind ability of the Macs to install a Windows partition, I didn’t hesitate to install Windows 7 on my Mac. It was a different story after installing Windows 7. It’s like a new Macbook after. It’s like having the best of both worlds. It’s the best thing that happened to any computer user for that matter. I use Windows 7 mainly because I play games and there are softwares that aren’t available on OS X. But if only for browsing and energy saving, I use OS X because it boots up and turns off faster than Windows and also power consumption on OS X is better than on Windows. So for me, if you know what you want to do with your computer may it be hardware or software-wise, it doesn’t matter if it’s a PC or an Apple. Because I love Apple products (iPhone 4, iPod, Mac) but I also love Windows products (Windows XP and Windows 7). So there. :)

Pansin ko dami nag-came to the rescue in this Mac topic.

Heh.

Honestly, meron talagang minamalas with Apple products and my brother is one.

@Beerboy
Lots of the newer games coming out for Windows have OSX ports. And now that Steam is on OSX, lots of existing Steam games are getting ported as well. Although yeah, very few MMOs apart from WoW and those already on the Steam network.

@Nick Sounds like a good idea, if you run a Mac, Ubuntu is not all that different (unless you run the Netbook Edition with the new Unity desktop), and it should run pretty fast on a netbook. The most RAM I have managed to get it to use with a dozen programs running is a bit under 700MB.

@Abe after dropping it? I wonder what that kind of a drop would do to your beloved PC. :D

Anyway, this is an isolated case – would love to help you troubleshoot it. Haven’t experienced a crash on a Mac in a looooonnnngggg time. However, looking back, did you re-install the OS or simply used it straight out of the box? Basic troubleshooting should identify the real issue and I doubt if it is Mac OS X – I suspect that it is Adobe Flash! Hahaha. I kid, but the possibility is there, of course.

One more thing – kung di uukol, di bubukol. You might not be the target demographics of Mac OS X, nor, I believe, you will be Linux’s. :)

Happy New Year, good ole friend! :)

There is this issue about the 11.6-inch Macbook Air’s hinge not being as durable as its 13-inch brother… but the lid issue is not your main problem.

I did not install flash in my MBA. Might be that.

been using macbook pro latest model since april 2010. i had 2 crashes so far. pretty decent for me. battery life is superb. i can surf the net and watch movie and still have 50% of my power after that. windows? you poop on that because by the time the liv tyler is removing her bra, your power is down to 1%!!!

I still use windows though that’s why i have a bootcamp!

i never had a mac although i would love to have one…regarding your trouble with putting your hardware to sleep…you should always wait for the process to complete going to sleep mode before closing the lid…closing it midway disrupts that process hence the freezing on startup…or just turning of only the lcd when you close the lid too early…and defragmenting your files is a major factor in easy startup coming from a hibernate mode…having an organized directory of files makes your pc find itself where it left off…

Palagay ko FF issue yan. Ang FF sa Mac ko patay na talaga. Whatever I do, re-install, installing early version, doesn’t help.

Why you don’t get viruses… You probably don’t surf for pron too often.

I’m also a recent switcher (Switched to an i7 4GB MBP with 500GB HDD) and aside from the hard disk problems (fixed by yours truly,) I’m enjoying the Mac. I dabble in the graphic arts and I find myself running Sims 3 and Photoshop together without a hiccup. Ditto too with StarCraft 2 and Photoshop on Windows. The jealous looks from my colleagues is just icing on the cake.

…not running the latest MBA but my 2 year old first-gen MBA works just fine. No problem at all, except for the tendency to overheat when running videos (like youtube). Extremely rare crashes. It’s a solid platform and I see no reason why this experience will not carry over with the latest MBA. And, yes, I’m a proud user of Apple (member of Philmug)………..and Microsoft products. he he he…

@Pepe
and yet for some reason linux is stuck at the lowest end of the consumer market in terms of market share. Imagine that.

I’m not a mac user so I planned to buy my first macbook pro maybe within the next month, only to experience the OSX…i just read the rumors that Macbook Pro will be updating in mid-april… so should I wait for the updated MBP or I just rush to buy it beacuse I can’t wait?

My bro owns a Mac so far wala naman sya reklamo. Nagustuhan ko sa mac is yung battery life.