Macbook back…

As you may have gathered from my last post and the 3 weeks gap there has been between updates, I sent my mac into Apple for a fix.

Typically, my macbook kindly didn’t do its party tricks at the Genius Bar, but they could see the battery problem- it wasn’t just bad, it was consumed, meaning it wasn’t even charging to full capacity. Now, like the last advisor I spoke to, he did say Apple Care wouldn’t cover it, BUT as there were more problems, he would overlook that and fit it with a new one for free. Hooray! £70 savings. Apparently, as I found out later, there were problems with the fan and logic board to name a few.

Two slow weeks later, my mac was returned to me. It certainly had a new battery, but as for the problems of being slow and crashing, this seemed totally unresolved. They did leave a note about the CPU being full to maximum capacity due to a Canon printer driver taking up 99%, but neither me or my parents (the only printers I have ever connected to) have a Canon printer. I’m assuming Apple removed the driver.

So, all in all, happy with their battery change, unimpressed with helping the initial problem, which is unresolved.

My mac is coming up to 3 years old. Does anyone else own an older macbook and had problems with slowness and crashing? What did you do to resolve it? Or is it time to admit that even Apple laptops have a sell by date?