02.06
I’m on my 3rd generation of 15″ Aluminium bodied Powerbooks. This one is an intel machine. With each iteration, the quality and stability of the hardware has declined.
Within a month or two of having this machine, the coating on the aluminium had started to wear off.
Within another month or so, the machine stopped being able to sleep properly when the lid was closed. Sometimes.
Now, I have to manually send it to sleep. It just won’t hibernate otherwise, despite trying all the workarounds posted in various places on the web.
More disturbingly. Actually, quite worrying in fact, is that the machine wakes itself up randomly when sat on my kitchen table before going back to sleep. This is with no USB or other devices attached, and no software designed to do this either. Obviously, the same happens in my backpack when it’s there on London (or other) trips too… The potential damage this could suffer if it didn’t go back to sleep in my backpack is too horrible to think about.
Come on Apple. We expect better than this.