I had a funny conversation with my good friend Sean regarding the on-going issues he has had with his first generation Macbook Pro. It appears his particular model doesn’t like screens. In actual fact, if memory serves me correctly, the initial problems were resolved by Apple replacing everything except the metal lid on his MBP (as that would have constituted a direct replacement, and as we all know Apple hates giving something for nothing :p).

Anyway 5 additional screens later - the last so poorly replaced that the latches wouldn’t even engage so Sean couldn’t even close it properly - and numerous stand up arguments with various Apple employees within their Regents Street “flagship” store. You can imagine Sean’s and my surprise when he received a call Monday night from Apple regarding the fixing of his latest issue to be told that they were going to replace the entire machine with a shiny new 2.6ghz 250GB ‘top of the tree’ standard build MBP (so not 1900×1200 LED screen, but you can’t have it all :p) instead of attempting to botch another screen replacement.

They were even nice enough to migrate all of his data etc to his new machine…

So congrats to Sean on his new old Macbook Pro and nice one Apple, you do have a heart - even if it appears at times to be hard, black and shaped like a lump of coal :p

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