Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated. I believe it is just bad screwing in China......
I had a similar thing happen with a gen 1 MacBook Pro, as someone mentioned Apple earlier in this thread. The version that had the AMD combined graphics card. Assembled in China, the heat sink paste was basically slapped on willy nilly, instead of using the correct amount which resulted in the incorrect heat transfer, which resulted in the laptops combined graphics card failing. I opened it up, cleaned it, placed the correct amount of heat paste on.....managed to eat out anther 6 months of life out of it before it really started to die, certain keys on keyboard failing, graphics failing, random shutdowns. Eventually i decided not to turn it on anymore, but i still have it for whatever reason.
I believe a bunch of people also believed there was a design flaw, which no one owned up to, neither AMD or Apple.
I think some versions of this laptop had Nvidia cards, and whoever had one of those was rightly given some kind of recompense from Nvidia, as they admitted there was a design flaw.
So yea, its not the first time I've experienced investing into a reasonably high end product where something just doesnt seem correct, so perhaps this explains my caution/annoyance/outburst.
You would have thought i would have stayed away from Apple after that, but i went ahead and bought a Mac Pro instead (late 2008 version), which is still going strong (apart from RAM burning out, which i must say the High CPU spikes from Live 10 give me the heaby jeebies at the moment).
I would never ever buy an Apple laptop ever again, or an iPhone for that matter. Apple desktops were always decent though, especially for music.
But saying that, once this tower goes, ill buy a 5.1 version Mac Pro.
But yea, China......mass manufacturing. I had a Motorola phone way back, one of those flip phones, before 3g and all that. You would not believe what that phone went through, I used to slap the flip part on tables and stuff when id finished a call, to close the flip. I dropped it in water a number of times, it even fell into a fire and for the lulz i stood and watched it burn for 30 seconds or so, took it out the fire, still worked. I think the phone was about 4 years old at this point. Then one day as i was sat on a friends couch, the phone was on the arm of the couch and i accidentally knocked it off with my elbow onto the soft deep shag pile carpet and it exploded into tiny pieces..........man did i laaarfff!!!! I think that was made and assembled in the USA though.
I know its just the world we live in today, but i guess i just don't believe we have to always accept that world lightly.
