The reviews are in, and they're not good. On the Apple.com product page itself, there are reports of major failures, which is especially pronounced for a device that a) costs $100, b) was 3 months late to market. The new MacBooks and MacBook Pros all now support mini-displayport, which is a different standard entirely and require adapters to the DVI and Dual DVI standard used by existing monitors. Here's what people are seeing:
- Flaky performance
- Flicker, sporadic issues...
- Doesn't Work with Gateway 30" Extreme Monitor
- significant drop in frame rate
- Very Disappointing
This is on top of 37signals's recent post "Every
Mac
I've owned has failed." I know of many Macbook Pros, including
my own and my brother's, have significant fan noise/overheating issues
that are chronically problematic.
What is it about Apple that makes their software so good but their hardware just a disaster? Is it a legitimate problem, or is it just that the computers are so close to perfect that any imperfection causes us to judge it far more harshly than computers that are inferior?
We hold Apple to a higher standard. I'd venture to say Every Vista Machine ANYONE has ever owned has failed, big time. And that's far worse.
