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Another example of Apples lack of quality control.

I Recommended the macbook to a couple of people, this crackbook belongs to my mother. Both macbooks have cracks. My mums crackbook also has the potentially faulty hard drive from Seagate (lots of reports that a certain model is prone to catastrophic failures).

Every mac laptop I've owned has had some fault or failure. The most reliable was the 366 ibook SE, which lasted three years before needing a new keyboard and a logic board (the case was also cracked around the apple detail under the screen). The Powerbook G4s being the worst (hard drive failures, RAM slots failing, Logic board failure, dangerous batteries needing replacement, faulty power leads, USB ports that didn't power external mobile hard drives).

I've got a Macbook at the moment and it'll be the last Apple I own if it fails. Although I can recommend their operating system, in all good faith I can't recommend their hardware again. It's too embarrassing. I'm not going to defend Apple again, I'm sick and tired of trying to make excuses.

I told my mum to book an appointment with a genius bar at a local Apple Retail shop. She got it fixed on the spot for free, and this was 6 months outside the standard one year warranty. I would say this was great service, but I think it was the least they could do. Microsoft offer free three year warranties with their Xbox 360s, it's time Apple did the same.

I'd bought my mum a replacement top case, incase Apple were going to be dicks. Looking at the design it came as no surprise its cracks to much, really poor design. But hey, they look great before they start falling apart!

A minibus arrived as the railway replacement service from Puigcerda to Latour de Carol. About 10 people with excessive amounts of luggage and one guy with a bike were supposed to ram themselves inside. A Toulousian knew we were late and that the French train would not wait for us, so he told us to hurry. We crammed our luggage inside and left the British cyclist stranded there, for at least 2 hours until the next train. "Mixel" was a decent driver, although he didn't know the way, but he drove heroically and we managed to reach Latour de Carol in time.