Comments on: Ed’s Macbook Pro: 2008-01-22 to 2008-04-09. “We hardly knew you…”

By: Now You Know

Now You Know — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:20:03 +0000

(1) For snopes.com's write-up about this scam see:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp

(2) For the Better Business Bureau's write-ups see:http://www.bbb.org/alerts/article.asp?ID=360
— and also — http://www.bbb.org/alerts/article.asp?ID=41

(3) For the Secret Service's write-up see:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020802151417/http:...

(4) For the Federal Trade Commission's write-up see: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/nige...

By: Now You Know

Now You Know — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:20:03 +0000

(1) For snopes.com’s write-up about this scam see:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp

(2) For the Better Business Bureau’s write-ups see:http://www.bbb.org/alerts/article.asp?ID=360
— and also — http://www.bbb.org/alerts/article.asp?ID=41

(3) For the Secret Service’s write-up see:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020802151417/http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml

(4) For the Federal Trade Commission’s write-up see: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/nigeralrt.shtm

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:17:10 +0000

Sounds kinda like it's dropping into deep sleep mode and having trouble getting out of it. My powerbook g4 does that. If the battery drops to nothing it drops into no-power hibernation mode. Once I plug it back in it, takes anywhere from 5-15 minutes to turn back on. I haven't researched much about why this is since I just try to not let the battery die.

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:17:10 +0000

Sounds kinda like it’s dropping into deep sleep mode and having trouble getting out of it. My powerbook g4 does that. If the battery drops to nothing it drops into no-power hibernation mode. Once I plug it back in it, takes anywhere from 5-15 minutes to turn back on. I haven’t researched much about why this is since I just try to not let the battery die.

By: dan

dan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:23:03 +0000

Strange – i haven't ever seen anything like that with my laptop – and I run it pretty hard 12+ hours a day. I've found that sleep/battery swap doesn't work too well for me, but then again I also don't have it doing the safe-sleep swap to disk immediately thing.

There is a firmware update out, and I found that after applying that I got the gray screen on startup but another cycle of holding the power button down for 5 seconds (or however many it took for the machine to beep at me and do the firmware load) took care of that.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:18:37 +0000

Hey – I'm thinking you got a rotten apple *grin* – I've been using my MacBookPro 24/7 to/from work, to meetings, trips, in the air, on a beach… It's never let me down yet. I've only gotten a few of the unhappy screen of death and had to reset the thing. Overall, I've had no trouble with the machine, so, I say, exchange it, move on, and whatnot.. – On the other hand, my 9 to 5 machine is a thinkpad T-60, which I've not had many issues with, however to two-workers with the same model have suffered the bad mobo issue.. – I think anything is going to have a lemon now and then, and sorry your first shot at Apple has send you the sour face. I don't think I could consider going back to a PC for my regular machine, although I do have XP/Paralells running for that one time a week I might need Windows.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:23:03 +0000

Strange – i haven’t ever seen anything like that with my laptop – and I run it pretty hard 12+ hours a day. I’ve found that sleep/battery swap doesn’t work too well for me, but then again I also don’t have it doing the safe-sleep swap to disk immediately thing.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:18:37 +0000

Hey – I’m thinking you got a rotten apple *grin* – I’ve been using my MacBookPro 24/7 to/from work, to meetings, trips, in the air, on a beach… It’s never let me down yet. I’ve only gotten a few of the unhappy screen of death and had to reset the thing. Overall, I’ve had no trouble with the machine, so, I say, exchange it, move on, and whatnot.. – On the other hand, my 9 to 5 machine is a thinkpad T-60, which I’ve not had many issues with, however to two-workers with the same model have suffered the bad mobo issue.. – I think anything is going to have a lemon now and then, and sorry your first shot at Apple has send you the sour face. I don’t think I could consider going back to a PC for my regular machine, although I do have XP/Paralells running for that one time a week I might need Windows.