Re: MacBook Pro - no bluetooth

Ian McCall <ian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2006-08-23 11:00:44 +0100, black.hole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jon B) said:

I bet somebody has forgot to plug the bluetooth module back in, or fit
it.

Sounds likely, although I'm intrigued by this 'breaking news' thing.
News was issued yesterday apparently - sounds like everyone got their
machines back after waiting so long, then at least some of them called
at once to say they've got no Bluetooth. Yesterday was about the
earliest it could have been received back according to my information
on motherboard stock, divinely supplied by Thor himself. Seems a bit of
a co-incidence. Wild speculation: someone has written the procedure
wrongly and a ton of boards have gone out without Bluetooth?

Does sound interesting, wonder who's boo boo'd.

I wonder how much I've cost Apple so far with this box. They certainly
can't have any margin left on it by now, not now they've arranged a
fifth rep

Well no doubt Apple pass on all this cost to the manufacturers of the
board, but still can't help margins and company perception, I wouldn't
stump up my own cash for a MBP currently.

Trouble is it leaves you with an air of distrust about the machine. I
depended on my 867Mhz 12" Powerbook and can't say that I treated it
with kid gloves either. Let me down with a drive failure after three
years, but that's it. This MacBook Pro on the other hand...well, it's
got a lot of proving itself to do. Seriously - this is it. One more
failure and it's a non-Apple laptop for me.

I can understand that, we had a pair of Kyocera printers last month, the
first one was such a bag of poo I told them to come and fetch both back
and stick 'em as I need kit I can trust, and they were such a horrendous
let down [1]. They squirmed over the second one as I'd opened up both
but never had it out the box (looking for the driver disk missing in
both boxes) not even proven faulty, but I haven't been billed for
either.

I think for day to day shifting around reliability the MacBooks are the
better bet, our iBooks have taken some hammer, and even the G3 models
have been pretty much reliable throughout, most failures involve either
theft or being dropped.

[1] The first ones print quality was much worse then the printer sat on
my desk needing new drum, new toner and done 100k and hence being
replaced and they wanted me to screw around trying to fix it, the 2nd
one was meant to be shipped across to NI after config'd and so it had to
'just work', I couldn't trust the Kyocera to do that.
--
Jon B
Above email address IS valid.
<http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
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