Bad Quality Macbook Pro and Deficient Apple Technical Support in Argentina!!!
I have a Mac Book Pro that I bought a year ago and the last couple of months have been working really bad!
I sent it to the technical support and they told me they have to change several parts of it. After 2 months I'm still waiting for a response using a terrible slow machine that works like crap.
This was my first Macbook Pro and I was happy that I wouldn't have so many problems as in my previous Ubuntu PC but now I realized how silly I was, components from this Macbook Pro seems to be really bad and getting it fixed in countries like Argentina is almost impossible.
I'm a computer engineer and I've been really unpdroductive during the last months, so this make me consider the idea of going back to Linux or even a Windows Machine, since having a Macbook Pro proved to be a terrible experience for someone who really needs to trust in their computer.
I'm travelling to San Diego next week, does anybody know how can I fix this problem there or something?
Thanks in advance!
Sorry eww about that, I'm not sure what parts need to be replaced apart from the logic board (it seems that is the motherboard + microprocessor).
I'm not sure mac users can do something to help me, but I was expecting that after my experience other people willing to have mac support in Argentina realizes that it's really bad!
Thanks again for your interest!
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