Argh Mac's!

[AmigaWun]

I need to vent guys and here I hope I find sympathy! I HATE MAC'S

Today I spent the good part of five hours helping a friend with a titanum powerbook put an 802.11 card in, she bought an apple Airport one. The first amazing thing comes when it doesn't fit in the slot, but a quick call to the apple seller and they tell me it has to go INSIDE THE MACHINE. My friend had opted not to get them to install it as it was an extra $20 fee, so he took it home and I got the job as I'm the "Computer Guy" and can generally help friends and family with there computer problems. I have never seen such a tragedy of design as the TiBook!

First I had to take the entire thing apart. This if youve been inside a laptop is not an easy trivial task. It needs the batteryu and case to come off, the drive and optical drive to come out, and apples STUPID design inside them mean I had to file away some parts as they were put in without obviously meaning to be taken apart again. Now I know computers are throwaway things nowadays but that's rediculous? We also had to use snips to cut some tiny pieces of shielding off to get to the right screws. I can see why they were charging so much to put the card in, she should have gone with that option! In the end finally I was able to lever up a part of the inside to push the airport card inside and click it in place. But that wasn't enough, an aerial cable then needed to be connected, and getting it out of its holder was another half hour of work where I had to pull the airport card out again!. Finally with it all back together it works. The inside I think is back where it should go *lall*!!. the back doesn't go back on how it should either and I think is a little bent.

I don't, I really don't, see how Apple can claim to be tops in design. Even my A600 was a dream to work on compared to this and it was pretty compact too!. Why they couldn't put it in an easily accessed slot like normal PC notebooks I dont know. Anyway Ive talked my friend into getting rid of her mac addiction, she will definately be buying a Dell next *LALL*

[AmigaWun]

Right so much for "community Support" then anyway the keyboard has no clips there are screws that don't turn very far, there's no warning for that and they could be easily broken, but I managed to defeat that. I don't think Lando that there's anything simple about it, as the first thing underneath there is I think RAM slots. I could complain another whole hour about RAM too, the computer is always having RAM problems and has no setting to increase swap so she can get more, and already has no RAM slots free, filled with Apple RAM. I planned to add some more in, I have some PC simms but there's nothing like normal RAM in there.

All I'm saying man is its nothing like as easy as the manuals might sound. Maybe that PDF would have helped if I could find it but there's no way you can get around that apple help site, and anyway I really don't think under the bottom cover looked like that once I got that far. The card was on the right hand side. Whatever, even if it was simple to put in and took me ten seconds I still wouldn't recommend a mac to anyone!