You convinced me to my a Mac. I’ve had it for more than a year. We also have a couple of iPods and iTouch music players that we’ve owned for years.
I have to say I am less than impressed.
The Mac is less than a year old and the battery is shot. From what I see, it is not user servicable, I’ll have to drive an hour to the service center when I get a chance.
You cannot drag and drop files to the iPods manually. My wife won’t let the kids use her Mac because she is afraid they will screw up her iTunes account. That means the kids run iTunes off the PCs in the house. Apple may write great software for Macs, but they write horrible software for PCs. Every PC I have that had iTunes installed started having problems, I suspect it is a “feature” that Steve put in the software to screw with PC users.
My daughters iTouch hung during a software upgrade. It won’t let her use the hardware telling her she needs to reset something. When she tries to reset it on the PC, it tells her there has been an error and asks her if she wants to reset the iTouch. Over and Over. I’ll take it to the service center too when I get a chance. In addition, she somehow lost all of her music.
In the future, I’ll have her buy all of her music from Amazon. I can drag and drop their music to any device I own, store it on a hard drive and never be limited on how many devices I use it on.
I still get woken up in the middle of the night for tech questions, but now I have to fix them on a Mac.
And to top it off, I had to buy my wife a Win 7 laptop because her professor can’t read her projects when she turns them in from the Mac. Nobody knows why, the Mac sends empty files through the university system. It’s supposed to work with their system but nobody in IT could come up with a solution.
I totally believe that Mac is kicking but. It has been kicking my but regularly and I’m getting a little sore.
doc, I am sorry you are having a problem. That is certainly not typical. Your laptop is still within warranty so take it to an Apple Store ASAP and have them check it out. If it's one of the sealed units it should last five years before needing replacement.
My wife won’t let the kids use her Mac because she is afraid they will screw up her iTunes account. That means the kids run iTunes off the PCs in the house. Apple may write great software for Macs, but they write horrible software for PCs. Every PC I have that had iTunes installed started having problems, I suspect it is a “feature” that Steve put in the software to screw with PC users.
Doc, set up standard user accounts for the kids on your wife's Mac and she won't have to worry about her iTunes account. They will not be able to touch it. Incidentally, your wife's account should also be a standard account. You should have a separate administrator account you use just for updates and software installation. Just create a new admin account. Then change hers to standard. It's easy to do. It guarantees that if anything ever does get in, it doesn't have administrator privileges.
May have an answer on your iTouch.
I was checking out replacing the battery since it didn’t last any time, even new.
Read on the ‘net to Reset All in Settings.
Seems to have worked. Battery life in much better.