Comment Re:Warning: The latest Powerbooks have issues (Score 1) 723
Just wanted to second the other responses to this post (3rd? 4th?) -- I purchased a 15" PB a month ago, and it's running great. No dead pixels, trackpad scrolling works great, backlit keyboard looks awesome. I added an extra 256MB of RAM after I got (be careful with those little screws, I almost stripped one) and it runs OS X fast!
I get about 3.5 hours of battery life when running a typical workload (e-mail, web browsing, other stuff). Haven't tried doing something like DVD playback off the battery yet.
The only issue I have (and I understand other people have this problem) is that under certain lighting conditions, the auto-dimmer gets a bit to aggressive, resulting in it changing the lighting level of the display too frequently. Usually it's when there's a directional light source and I'm accidentally shading the sensor with my hand as I type (for example, in my office, the window is to my right, and I shade the sensor with my left hand on the keyboard as I type). It's not actually I big problem, since I just turn off auto-dimming when I notice it happening.
Anyway, sorry you had such a bad experience with your PB. Four of my friends recently purchased PowerBooks and I haven't heard of anyone having the problems that you did! It certainly would have turned me off of Apple if it had happened to me!
I get about 3.5 hours of battery life when running a typical workload (e-mail, web browsing, other stuff). Haven't tried doing something like DVD playback off the battery yet.
The only issue I have (and I understand other people have this problem) is that under certain lighting conditions, the auto-dimmer gets a bit to aggressive, resulting in it changing the lighting level of the display too frequently. Usually it's when there's a directional light source and I'm accidentally shading the sensor with my hand as I type (for example, in my office, the window is to my right, and I shade the sensor with my left hand on the keyboard as I type). It's not actually I big problem, since I just turn off auto-dimming when I notice it happening.
Anyway, sorry you had such a bad experience with your PB. Four of my friends recently purchased PowerBooks and I haven't heard of anyone having the problems that you did! It certainly would have turned me off of Apple if it had happened to me!
