Makes two off us I should be classed as a local branch off apple, I even succumbed to getting a 5s last week all I can say its a bit like marmite you love it of hate it. I'm on the fence I love it but miss elements off my android phone.
I've been promising myself a Mac Pro ever since I bought this MacBook Pro 17 in early 2009 (I understand they don't make 17inch MacBooks any more), its now more than five years old, and despite the second internal DVDRW drive dying a death and my never bothering to replace it as I have an external Blu-Ray that does the job, I am rather thinking of fitting a second HDD in place of the dead DVDRW to take over the Back Up role from the External USB HDD. I'm not confined to Apple, despite owning an iPhone 4S, as I have four laptops running Unbuntu 12.04 LTS (14.04 from 17th April, woo hoo!), and three of them run Windows XP if I really have to, to be honest the last time I ran Windows XP was June last year, and only because a Deer Stalking CD required Windoze. I even have an old P90 Laptop and a 486-100 that both run Windows 95, although I don't know why. Plus there's another two or three tower PCs and a couple of Rack Mount PCs lurking in the shed, that probably haven't been powered up in nine years, ha, one of them was SCSI I think.
I'm off to the Genius Bar at Westfield Stratford on Thursday. My 2013 MacBook Air has had horrible WiFi connection (drops every time the computer sleeps) since I upgraded to Mavericks. Hopefully it'll be an easy fix as I've been enjoying the experience since I bought this for work in November. If it's not then maybe the growing rumours of post-Steve Jobs sloppiness have some basis in truth. I do know that I should have never upgraded to Mavericks as there's been so much negative feedback, but I'd just gone to iOS 7 on my ageing iPhone 4 with no trouble so I was feeling confident. Since 1993 this has been my second Mac. However the first one was a Performa 400 when I was a student. A pizza box drive with a whole 20mB!! Still, I managed to do all my assignments and a 97-page full-colour dissertation without ever having to queue for a workstation on campus. I've bounced between PCs and Macs all through my career and Macs are in the lead in terms of what I prefer. However I had no problems working on Windows Vista for the previous five years. I'm one of the eight people in the world that liked it.
Interesting - let us know what they found. Macs can go wrong - my SD card reader never worked - but in my experience Apple a) know about it and b) will fix it.
I'm using Mavericks on my iMac without problem. But I'd be interested to know what the Apple shop say.
My mate suggested I didn't upgrade my iMac to mavericks until the bugs had been sorted, I'll have to speak to him again.
Interesting. I've upgraded my 2010 unibody Macbook from Snow Leopard to Mavericks without any problems (so far). Mind you, I did a clean install - took the Macbook back to factory in Snow Leopard and then upgraded straight to Mavericks, has probably removed a load of old crap that was hanging around the hard drive from software I never use anymore. I've also had no problems with iOS7 to speak of - but I waited about a month from first release (until the crescendo of whining about it downloading slowly had died down - well of course it'll download slowly, you're all trying to download it at the same time, duuuuuuhhh!!) and it has run fine ever since. With the Mac, it has actually made it run better - which was the same experience I got years ago upgrading a G3 iBook from Cheetah to Tiger. Unlike a new Windows install, it doesn't seem to require an exponentially greater amount of system resources to run a newer operating system on Macs.
@Sir Arthur ... Did you manage to fix your wifi problems? My Macbook Pro has started misbehaving now - not all the time, but takes several attempts to "attach" to wifi after opening the lid.
Sorry I should have updated my problem. I forgot to. Had my Genius appointment they took the mac in and fitted a new hard drive under warranty. All the dents and scratches were marked down as a well loved and used mac. And the dent nr the hard drive would have had impact on the hard drive. Can't fault the service from Apple.
In a word - no. The guy at the Genius bar took virtually no notice of what the problem actually was and so a few days later (I left my Mac with them) I had a call saying there was nothing wrong with it. When I picked it up the guy who signed my MBA back to me admitted there have been problems which could be a Mavericks issue. However... I registered a candidate this week (I run a recruitment firm in the creative industry) who is a certified Apple technician (higher level than the Genii) who told me what my symptoms were without me telling him. It's 100% a Mavericks issue but Apple are refusing to publicly acknowledge it. Where now, well luckily this candidate of mine (actually a long-standing client that wants to move on) has offered to roll my MBA back to the previous OS. Funnily enough to write this post this morning I woke up my Mac and it connected instantly! But overall this issue has really soured the Apple experience. I've paid almost double what I'd shell out for a PC and sacrificed some screen size to go back to Mac and suddenly it's a less than acceptable product.
