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Hello.
Around Monday last week I finally received my MacBook. Now, we all heard a lot of complaints from the Apple community in general, CPU whines, fan mooing, overheating, discoloration, display artifacts after sleeping, frequent crashes, random shutdowns, and the list goes on and on.
However I haven’t yet experienced any of those symptoms, I still haven’t had a single problem (apart from one that was already fixed anyway). Read more »
I just had a wonderful idea for a practical appliance. It’s a toaster with programmable shapes that can be embedded on the toast.
The toaster will have, say, 100 different heating bodies, 10 by 10, and you will be able to draw an image, and according to that, the toast will get the desired ‘print’ by having only the heating bodies that you want to turn on turn on. Basically, this thing creates uneven toasts under very controlled situations. And it should’nt be hard either – we have successfully put NetBSD on a toaster, so that could be the next step.
Of course, those little heating bodies will have to be pretty close to the toast itself to get a good “resolution”, and perhaps more than 100, more like 16×16. I don’t know.
The toaster will be accessed via either Bluetooth, and will have several presets built in that you can use.
I’d buy one.
Today I was very happy to read MacRumors.com, as I noticed two news articles I thought were very encouraging.
First, Apple acknowledges the discoloration. This is a very good thing, and for a cosmetic problem, I thought would be almost impossible. Basically the problem must have been so bad that it must have been such bad PR for Apple that they simply decided to fix it just to shut everyone up. I’d call it a smart move. So now if you have a discoloration problem with your unit, they’ll replace the top for you with something that doesn’t stain, or at least not as easily.
And secondly, the well known moo problem seems to have been solved for some users by resetting the PMU. While it’s probably a half-assed solution really, I see a firmware update coming up, very soon.
Those problems shouldn’t have actually occured in the first place, but for a brand new design, not just a different chip, but a whole new design, I guess you could expect rev A to be problematic. I’d expect rev B to be much better, and hopefully they’ll also nail the heat problems by then (by using a better chip? I don’t know)
So, I’m happy they fixed that problem now that I’m getting my Macbook next week, so I don’t have to start whining about the discoloration.
Thanks Apple!