Total Posts: 1574
Joined 2005-09-12
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Posted: 01 November 2005 12:30 AM
Sure we all love our macs, but what is the worst mac experience, that you have ever had?
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Total Posts: 839
Joined 2005-09-28
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Posted: 01 November 2005 12:57 AM
Any breakdown I have ever had has been really late at night. I have such a compulsion to rectify it that I’m stuck for hours trying to fix it.
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Total Posts: 1108
Joined 2005-03-16
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Posted: 03 November 2005 03:10 PM
Owning a G3 beige box with OS 9.
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Total Posts: 312
Joined 2005-10-21
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Posted: 03 November 2005 09:23 PM
I have a bad mac experience also, it was when my iPod completely froze up and would unfreeze. It made me so mad because I hadn’t even had it for a year. Then I finally found out how to reset it.
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Total Posts: 714
Joined 2005-08-15
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Posted: 11 November 2005 03:44 PM
The first time I used Font Book. I had just bought my Powerbook and I had a deadline for the next day. I decided to load all my fonts while simultaneously working on my project.
Font Book kept on crashing the computer. So I decided to just manually install the fonts I needed but couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to do that. This was the first time I really used OSX and I couldn’t find the Font folder in the System Folder. I couldn’t even find the System Folder!
After 3 hours of continuous crashing I finally went back to my old computer running OS9 but all the work I did in Quark 6 for OSX couldn’t be saved down to the Quark 4 I was running on my old machine.
In the end I had to recreate everything and I promptly got Suitcase.
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Total Posts: 5
Joined 2005-11-12
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Posted: 13 November 2005 07:36 PM
I’m a switcher, which means I still have to use evil empire Office software.
I had sent out a presentation to a co-worker that included graphics, only to discover that the screenshot I had pulled in on my Mac were all in TIFF embedded format which would not display on his windows machine!
Since then, I’ve learned about the folder actions which allows me to automatically convert a screenshot TIFF file into a JPEG. All is well now, however, I wonder what other oddities will crop up in trying to use Office products in a cross platform environment!
At a minimum, I will be more sympathetic of the Linux users in our office!
Stripey
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Total Posts: 104
Joined 2003-07-16
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Posted: 13 November 2005 08:05 PM
The purchasing of my very first Mac.
It was a PowerBook, bronze keyboard (Lombard) a beautiful machine at the time. Well, I was impatient to get one, and Apple’s ship times were super bad back then… they or Fedex ended up losing it enroute. I canceled the order and bought it elsewhere. Turns out, Apple’s different divisions don’t talk, and where I had cancelled it in one place, at the other it wasn’t.
Apple reshipped the laptop to my apartment I vacated in the meantime. A year later I get a letter from a creditor saying I owe Apple $3000 dollars. At that point in time, Fedex purged their shipping records, I had no proof I cancelled the order.
At the end of it all I ended up paying nearly $6000 for my first Mac, all on a junior designer’s salary.
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Total Posts: 14
Joined 2005-09-12
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Posted: 13 November 2005 11:31 PM
My ongoing issue with iTunes Music Store is my worst Apple experience. They’ve been “working” on my issue for almost 2 months, and I still can’t log in!
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Total Posts: 401
Joined 2005-09-16
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Posted: 14 November 2005 02:41 AM
Worst Apple experiences:
* Announcement that Newton is dead
* Announcement that floppy drives are “dead”
* Announcement of the Flower Power and Dalmation iMac CRTs
* Announcement that Mac OS X is “way forward”
* Announcement that modems weren’t internal
* Announcement that Macs are moving to Intel chips
Hmmm ... I sense a pattern there. They can all be summed up in one:
* Announcement that Steve Jobs is back at Apple!! 
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Total Posts: 11
Joined 2005-11-14
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Posted: 14 November 2005 10:01 PM
The first Mac I ever owned was a Mac clone, a PowerComputing PowerCenter 150 desktop and it ran Mac OS 7.5.3. I was so thrilled to have a new toy that I would install all sorts of freeware and shareware on it, anything I could find really, till the dreaded Extensions Conflicts kicked in… 
My other worst experience was witnessing my first kernel panic in Jaguar. Bad RAM was the culprit and I had been holding off using Mac OS X till the old grape iMac’s analog board fried and I had to get a brand new Mac, the one I have now, an iMac G4 800MHz. The RAM had been installed by the store where I bought my iMac, so not Apple’s fault at all. I don’t know what kernel panics look like now in Tiger (I am still running Panther and it has been rock solid! *touch wood*  ) but kernel panics under Jaguar were pretty serious looking. 
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Total Posts: 445
Joined 2005-09-15
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Posted: 15 November 2005 01:08 PM
When Amelio was at the helm at Apple, things had bottomed out so bad, I actually recommended my brother get a PC over a Mac…
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Total Posts: 2
Joined 2006-04-05
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Posted: 05 April 2006 02:38 PM
Here’s one for you: I have a new iMac that hasn’t worked since August. The repair guy got $225 but didn’t repair it; Apple “Care” technician sent “free” software that cost $100, which I didn’t know until I bounced checks; and now Apple won’t refund me my $100 for another two months because Apple has to “first wait two billing cycles.”
Some fun.
Oh, believe me, I am **not** a believer in Apple! I am praying for it’s demise.
Go, Paul!
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Total Posts: 7
Joined 2006-01-07
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Posted: 05 April 2006 06:05 PM
watching a DVD on my new Powerbook and having the RAM crash. it was the night before i had to leave for a long stay away from home, so i had to have it repaired when i arrived, and i didn’t have a computer for 2 weeks.
and installing Front Row using Andrew Escobar’s code. totally wiped out my menubar. i was freaking out until he posted the solution, a combo update from apple…
well, so far so good for me. i have been a Mac user for less than a year, and i don’t see myself going back to Windows again… well, maybe i will, with Apple’s Bootcamp. but that won’t be for several years when i get an intel-mac.
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Total Posts: 39
Joined 2006-02-24
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Posted: 05 April 2006 08:04 PM
Announcement of MacIntel after a month i bought my iMac G5
Crashing computer when the first Front Row out (v 1.0). After several update, it works well for me.
Crashing computer when i’m plug in external HDD, and my iPod. I though it’s very weird, even windows never do this(in my experience). This happen in front of my hard core windows lover friend. Worst experienced. After i ask to several user, and they said just repair permission disk. All done.
But my friend never forget that.... Damnit
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Total Posts: 2
Joined 2006-04-05
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Posted: 06 April 2006 10:20 AM
Yes, kernel panic! HOW AWFUL!!! The sad part is, everyone tells you how great OSX is, blah, blah, blah, but there is my old blueberry still chugging away with system 9! Never, never, never did I see anything remotely like kernel panic, in name or feature. Ugh. I should’ve waited until G5s were MUCH older. In fact, to the guy who wrote that he’s bummed that he just bought a G5 and now there’s Boot Camp: three years. In three years, Boot Camp will be ready for shipping.
MacHeadCase - Nov 14, 2005 10:01pm The first Mac I ever owned was a Mac clone, a PowerComputing PowerCenter 150 desktop and it ran Mac OS 7.5.3. I was so thrilled to have a new toy that I would install all sorts of freeware and shareware on it, anything I could find really, till the dreaded Extensions Conflicts kicked in…
My other worst experience was witnessing my first kernel panic in Jaguar. Bad RAM was the culprit and I had been holding off using Mac OS X till the old grape iMac’s analog board fried and I had to get a brand new Mac, the one I have now, an iMac G4 800MHz. The RAM had been installed by the store where I bought my iMac, so not Apple’s fault at all. I don’t know what kernel panics look like now in Tiger (I am still running Panther and it has been rock solid! *touch wood* ) but kernel panics under Jaguar were pretty serious looking.
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