Life is Full a Vit

Contrary to what every single Mac and Apple fanboi would have you think, Mac’s do not “just work”. In fact, they are full of more fail than the Linux distributions I have run and even more fail than Windows XP/Vista/7. I have never seen kernel panic or BSOD when plugging in a USB device into my PC’s running Linux and Windows. My now-year-old MacBook Pro? Yup, kernel panic when it doesn’t like the USB device. What happened to graceful error handling?

How about handling Windows shares (SAMBA)? Linux (and of course Windows) handles them just fine. My MacBook totally barfed and completed refused to recognize my media server. Total failure when it came to copying my photos from my Mac to my media server over the network. Well this was the last straw. Out of five (5) computers I regularly use in my household, the Mac is the ONLY one consistently having issues and also gets the LEAST use. Why does it get the least use? Because it simply is NOT useful. My Windows-based laptops do everything the Mac can do, and do it better and with less fuss. Hell even my Linux laptops were less of a PITA than my Mac. So this is how we say farewell to a piece of shit Apple computer.

And this is also how we pry the hard drive out of said piece of shit Apple computer. Then we use the Windows based laptop to transfer all my data off the HFS formatted drive (which, I’m shocked to say, survived the impact of tossing the MacBook hard at the ground and then snapping the LCD clean off).

In conclusion, friends do not let friends buy Apple. If you think your Mac is the greatest thing since sliced bread, then you are retarded and extremely delusional. Go buy a $500 Acer laptop, which will cost you 2x-3x less than a comparable Mac, and it’ll browse the internet and word process just as well as that overpriced Mac. If you think your Mac “just works”, then you obviously don’t do anything more than simple email and web browsing and you don’t need a $1500-$2000 machine anyway. Any of us sane people actually paying $2000 for a laptop are buying much more advanced hardware than Apple is stuffing in your overpriced Mac.

To come: photos of me unloading shotgun shells into the remains of the MacBook.

Well I finally got around to it… time to give the VW back to…. well… VW. I’ve had the car in hiding for a while, but things are finally being taken care of and I’m letting them take it. It’s been in a hiding spot at my parents place and the tools can’t find it. I should post the back story about the VW sometime…

What a POS… But whatever, screw VW. It had brand new Pirelli P-Zero Nero M+S tires on it… (barely had 7k miles on them) that are in the right size to fit my Civic. So I pulled them off…

Awwww…. poor GTI… NOT! Those tires are going on this sexy beast once the factory Michellins are bald…

Yeah I even took time to wash it and fill it with premium fuel, oh snap!

Well lets say that at least my trip to Portland wasn’t uber boring. As much as I tend to hate all things Apple (ironic given I own an iPhone, iPod and MacBook Pro… but that’s another story all together), I gotta say their customer service is great and they honored the warranty on their iPhone.

However this makes it my third iFail… err.. iPhone. The first had a wonderful FAIL of it’s own, again, another story. Now I’m left “customizing” this current iPhone. Wonderful.

And now to the point… at least I had a blast in Portland. It’s 11:21pm and I just got home. Wewt!

… FAIL.

And it just sits there indefinitely….

… but in the end… FAIL. Spent over an hour on the phone with AppleCare to come up to the same results… I have a lovely iPaperweight. Something even Tim pretty much chuckled at. I mean what more can I say? I spent that time on the phone doing the same restores I had just previously attempted… but now it encompassed two machines with the same results… FAIL.

So now I have an appointment in Portland at the Apple Store to deal with this at the “Genius Bar”… yay. I get to try the restore one more time on my MacBook Pro at home… probably to watch it fail (I mean statistically if it’s failed 100% of the time I attempted the restore on two different PC’s, what’s the likelihood it will be successful on the Mack?).

Does anybody notice the PATTERN HERE? Maybe I should bring my camcorder with me to the Apple Store…

That is the ultimate question as I sit here at work ticked off beyond explanation. But another question might be…. why does Apple suck? Oh but where do I begin?

Today started out like the average day. Got absolutely no sleep last night since it was Sunday night and as always I was out way later than I should of been. Then I get home and watch a movie. Get to be around… oh 3am. Roll out of bed at 6am groaning and cursing the world. Do the usual junk, grab my spiffy iPhone and unplug it from my MacBook Pro (which I’ve also handily named the HDD to ‘Apple Sucks’, but I digress). So all in all… a fine morning.

Yeah right.

I get to work, everything is dandy. Send a few texts to certain people you don’t need to know about (maybe I’ll tell you one day). Send a few more texts to my sister then ultimate start ignoring her. She claims I’m driving her crazy. I don’t believe that’s possible as I believe she was crazy to begin with. Ok… I do some of the usual work that involves… well, work.

Around 11:30am PST I look at my phone… and it’s complaining. WTF. “Unknown” ICCID and IMEI. WTF does that mean? Well it’s simple really… it means my iPhone is a dandy iPaperweight. I grab a copy of iTunes and the latest iPhone 2.2.1 firmware from Apple’s site. Do you see where this is going? Yeah… I have to “restore” my dandy phone. Un-f’ing believable. It was just working FINE, then out of the blue… it doesn’t work? WHAT? I did absolutely NOTHING to the phone.

Way to go Apple. You SUCK.

Now it doesn’t end here… this is still just the first nuisance. I launch the restore and yeah, sure, it runs. The status bar on my phone is full… however the PC still things it’s restoring my iPhone firmware… and the phone still thinks it’s restoring my firmware… for the past HOUR. WTF?

Ugh… if I have to take this thing to the Apple store I’m going to be that much more ticked off.