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I bought a Powerbook in 2005. Loved it for about a month, and then I started actually using it and found out that it was in fact a pile of crap. The DVD drive would eject or eat discs if it couldn't read them, and it was annoyingly picky about whether or not a disc was readable. It would usually take me ten or twelve tries to get a DVD to load, and then it might stop playing halfway through, and eject it. I called Apple about it, and they said that it was "normal" for the drive to eject if the disc is dirty or scratched. Mind, the DVDs I was using were brand new, I bought them shrink-wrapped from the store. But apparently they were dirty somehow. Never mind that out of the ten PCs I tested some of these discs with, not a single one had an issue with a single disc. Even a couple older DVDs that looked like they'd been beaten with a turkey mallet would at least attempt to play in these PCs, but no way, uh huh, can't play them on this $2400 Powerbook because they're dirty or scratched.
A while back, one of my RAM slots mysteriously died, and it completely stopped booting until I pulled the stick out of that slot. I had to work with half the memory I had purchased, even though both sticks worked just fine. Three of the keys fell off through normal usage – my Fn key broke in half down the middle. The spring for the lid latch snapped after a few months of use, so I had to get my fingernail in between the case and the lid to pry it open. The disconnectable plug on the power supply was extremely loose and would occasionally slide out, leaving the computer on battery power, and when plugging it in, it would sometimes fail to charge up and I would have to shut down, remove and reinsert the battery in order to get it to register that it should be charging. And then one day it just completely died for no apparent reason. Probably the other RAM slot went bad, but hell, I'd never know because there's no way to test it because it's all proprietary.
The OS itself is hilariuosly buggy. I don't know how many times I was interrupted from my work because Spotlight decided that it needed to immediately lock all programs up in order to reindex the disk. iTunes is a pile of bloated crap, iPhoto is even worse and can't handle over a couple hundred photos or so without choking and dying. I can't count how many damn times the thing has decided to give me the spinning beachball cursor and never change it back. I have no idea how it manages to do it, but any time there's a scrollbar it manages to completely break and either draw it when it shouldn't be there or not show it when it should. It would randomly rearrange my icons or reset my file manager settings without any notice. The way it handles file type associations is completely retarded, hell I had to reinstall the entire OS once because it spontaneously decided that the /Applications folder was in fact a text file.
Apple sucks.
