Comments on: MacBook Pro 17 vertical blue line

By: nuc

nuc — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:32:33 +0000

I’ve had the same problem and they have replaced the whole lcd-panel..!

By: Miguel Arroz

Miguel Arroz — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:49:19 +0000

I do have an AppleCare for this machine, but I had to buy it in UK. Unfortunately, Apple still doesn’t sell AppleCare packages in Portugal. Anyway, even knowing that the screen will be replaced, it’s completely unacceptable. I know a lot of people who own a Mac, and the vast majority of them already had problems with their hardware. This was NOT like that before. Apple hardware quality is crap now. It stinks. The only thing that keeps me buying Macs is Mac OS X.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:20:48 +0000

This is why I usually purchase the service plan from PC Connection (even if I didn’t buy the unit there) instead of (or in addition to) AppleCare. Three years of hardware protection costs much less than one screen. BTW, this endorsement is submitted without compensation of any kind — I just don’t want to see people having bad experiences.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:43:42 +0000

WTF?! Apple should really rethink their industry partners… hardware failures on Apple´s products are so usual this days that´s scaring. And it let “scares” on their costumers…

By: botinhas

botinhas — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:31:17 +0000

I still remember when you have to sell your car to buy one Macintosh…