AssFace's Journal: White spots on my laptop, and Safari is "teh suk"

I got my laptop without ever even knowing that there was a problem of white spots on the screens of the new AlBooks. I suppose I should have spent much more time looking around to see if there were issues, specifically with the new hardware.

I then had the unit and then found out there was a white spot issue, something in the LCD screen.
I didn't notice any until today - about a week into having it.

They don't seem to get in the way of anything I do, which is good since I can't do much about getting it fixed. There are no local repair shops and for some reason Bermuda is on Apple's "oh, we won't sell to you" lists.
So if I call and tell them that I have this, they will deny any knowledge of it since I have it by purchasing it to a States address and then having it brought here.
So any repairs I do will have to be shipped to the States and considering how frequently the mail here just disappears, never to be seen again, it is unlikely that I can really do anything with this laptop.

That said, I so far (knock on wood), have no screwy pixels, and the white spots don't get in the way of anything.

Safari is nice in some ways. It is part of the Mac so it feels like it belongs. I love that there is an option that if I am in another app and I click on a link, it opens a new browser window. In Windows it would see that I had one opened and then just fill that one - I always hated that.
That said, Safari eats major hairy donkey nuts on just about everything else.
It is the only thing that ever freezes up on my machine, the infinite rainbow pinwheel.
In Windows, you can get around such things by opening multiple instances of IE. Not just multiple windows of IE from the original process, but actually multiple instances of the IE process, each with its own sub-windows. That way if one of those freezes up, you can kill it and not lose everthing that you had been doing on the web.
In the days of just reading content on the web, it was no big deal to lose what you were doing on the web - you just go back to the site and keep reading.
But in the days of web applications, it sucks enourmously for the computer to decide that it is tired of you being productive and just bail out and sit there, happily spinning a little icon while blocking you from your work.
THIS is why I have always hated Macs in the past.
Hopefully that gets fixed real fast or this will be my first AND last Mac all in one shiny little bundle of expensive broken-screeness.

I will install another browser, some Mozilla derivative or Opera and then likely the apps that have links in them will still open Safari for me, thinking they are being helpful.