My elder daughter has just left for University. Her old Vaio was getting very slow and the battery was long since dead, so I decided to get her a new machine. Since I like my MacBook, combined with the reduced risk of viruses etc, it made sense to get her a MacBook. The fact it was a highly-fashionable white was icing on the cake for her, being non-technical.

However it has started throwing kernel panics and shutting down. It then won’t power on without taking out the battery and leaving it to sit for a while. A quick Google shows that we’re not alone.

This comes a few weeks after my father’s Dell blue screened and would not restart without a complete reinstall, including needing a different set of recovery disks from the media included in the box. My father gives great kudos to the lady from the Indian call centre who assiduously worked to resolve the issue.

I can just imagine one of those “Hello, I’m a PC, Hello, I’m a Mac” Apple adverts on this theme. If I had any spare time I could make one and put it on YouTube. But I don’t, so I’ll just go back to fuming.

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