MacBook Pro and Facebooks "New Design"
I know that I can't be the only one suffering from this, so I am going to lay it out there and hope that someone can help me.......
I have a MacBook Pro with a Mac OS X operating system, Version 10.5.8. A few weeks ago Facebook foisted their "New Design" on me, which I wasn't even given the opportunity to switch to, or refuse. It simply "whited out" my screen, leaving me NO options whatsoever, and just like that, I was stuck with it.
Suffice to say that I HATED, no LOATHED it from the very start, the freaking pictures in the News Feed are HUGE and frankly, the entire thing disgusts me.
However, be that as it may, I could probably live with all of that, but I soon discovered to my horror that no longer was I able to upload photos, or EVEN peruse them anymore. It will take you through the regular menu to upload......but once you upload the photos, the freaking screen suddenly stars flickering, and all that's left of your download is the top and bottom portions of the upload screen. All your photos are gone, although they sometime flicker back at you for an instant like some sort of spirit you'd see on Supernatural. It *****!!! I love to upload pics and share them and it's killing me.
And when I go to look at someone elses pics?? When I click on them, the screen locks up!!!!
Somebody help me!!!!! Please!!!!
Er, forgive the outburst......but I'm ahhhhhh, slightly frustrated. ;-) Hehehehe.......
~Muggins73
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The new non-user-serviceable battery can easily and quickly be replaced at an Apple store, but if you don't have one nearby, that would be a headache. Of course if it lasts through 1000 charge cycles as advertised (and I'm sure that estimate presumes that you will care for it exactly as Apple recommends), it shouldn't need to be replaced any more often than about every three years, at the most.
I wouldn't be the least bit concerned about the drop in price reflecting a corresponding decrease in quality. There is nothing to suggest that. Across the entire computer industry, every hardware item and feature is more widely available and less expensive than it was a year ago, and far, far less expensive than it was ten years ago (if it was available at all back then). And at least in the Mac world, the computers just keep getting better and better.
In my view, you should think twice about buying one of the latest 15" MBPs only if you need the ExpressCard 34 slot that has been dropped from those models. Replacing it with an SD card reader was a thoroughly mystifying decision on Apple's part. Otherwise, the new machines look like world-beaters.
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