appleinsider.com — Some owners of Apple's new unibody, 15-inch MacBook Pro are reporting in Apple's support forums (1, 2) that their connections to wireless access points often lose signal strength or drop their links altogether. The problem echoes a similar one witnessed by owners of aluminum iMac owners since mid-year that has created similar difficulties.
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built2spillNov 7, 2008
Flaky wireless on a MacBook? Kitty Please.
derekjabNov 7, 2008
No problems with my MacBook Pro either.
jemkaNov 7, 2008
"It just works."
bobdobNov 7, 2008
Well, you get what you pay for. Oh, wait.
Closed AccountNov 8, 2008
The new ipod touch has a plastic covering for the wifi antennae doesn't it?
baceman007Nov 8, 2008
Honestly Apple doesn't seem to be focusing on their computers as much anymore or at least this year. Sure we got some new designs, that are even less serviceable than before, but remember how many of the new iMacs froze out of the box at first, plus Leopard was released needing 100 some patches that finally came over a total of 5 major OS updates in only a few months and they still haven't fixed the ARD root exploit. I mean is Apple even testing their stuff before release anymore? They used to be a sign of quality, but now that the hardware is just high end PC hardware anyway it might be worth at least having a machine that's user serviceable. Plus Linux is getting better all of the time. Ubuntu is amazing, and you can put it on a machine where you can actually have a choice of hardware. Still if you're not into making the switch to total open source Vista has a classic mode that's ok, and employs a UNIX like user structure now. Sure it's bloated, but RAM is cheap and the "problems" that Apple says are there in their childish commercials we don't really see at work. What we are seeing are a lot more broken Apple's than we ever have before. Perhaps Apple has jumped the shark again. Plus some Apple users and employees are like creepy cult members that will only talk to you if you use Apple and that's just weird, I mean it's just a computer right....? It seems to me like the whole Apple culture is the real thing to avoid in the end. Sure we all want good computers, but considering that you can't even shop around for hardware when it comes to Apple seems to me like a way to end up with a really great or really awful computer and unfortunately you just get to take your chances with Apple. Plus cults are always something to avoid.
fwooflesNov 8, 2008
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gaoshanNov 8, 2008
I have a late 2007 MacBook and it worked perfectly until yesterday. I am visiting a friend and in his place the wireless drops in and out every second or so. Using a sniffer like KisMAC you can watch the strength of the signal. Of the 20 or so available wireless signals they all cycle from 0 signal strength to normal signal strength repeatedly every second. I must use ethernet to get online now. :(
brundlefly76Nov 9, 2008
r00fus - because both of those options had their own drawbacks.The one thing that Apple cannot build into their notebooks is choice.I will miss choosing from 500 different notebook models from different manufacturers. I have owned Sony, several Dells, Toshiba, HP, and now a Macbook. I have no brand loyalty, I just choose the model which best suits my needs at the time of purchase.MacBooks are kind of like the Ford Model T - 'you can have any color as long as its black'.