12 thoughts on “MacOS X really starts to get irritating…”

1. So, I’m not the only one to think that MacOS X is a joke.

2. whoo..go Windows!
   Ok..i’m leaving…

3. I knew this post would be popular !

   BTW, you can add regular iTunes database corruptions as another piece of evidence. The only solution is to recreate it, which means having to re-upload all your music and re-install all your apps to your iPhone…

4. This madness will never stop…
   

5. Just found new species of bugs:

   

   

6. Kev’s blog aka “MaxOS X bugtracker”

7. 6 months later, I’ve:

   • updated MacOS X from Leopard to Snow Leopard,
   • upgraded Kubuntu from Karmic Koala (9.10) to Lucid Lynx (10.04),
   • changed my HDD to a SSD (a 160 Go Intel X25-M Postville).

   Still, my machine crash hard. I now suspect problems with the MacBook Pro’s SATA controller. After all, my machine always freeze on high I/O load (disk backups, video transcoding, etc.).

   Wait. I remember of Apple pushing a new SATA firmware one year ago. Let me google this…

   Bingo ! This is a firmware issue ! I knew it !

8. Just followed these instructions this afternoon to downgrade my firmware to EFI 1.6. This doesn’t solve my problems at all !

   It’s really time to trash this MacBook Pro. Anyone to suggest a good laptop that works fine on Kubuntu ?

9. And here is the kind of kernel crashes I have on kubuntu with this machine:
   

10. I wasn’t certain of the effect of the firmware downgrade. But I found a way to check that it really set SATA bandwidth back to 1.5 Gbps:

    $ cat /var/log/dmesg | grep Gbps
    [    0.800530] ahci 0000:00:0b.0: AHCI 0001.0200 32 slots 6 ports 1.5 Gbps 0x3 impl IDE mode
    [    1.330097] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
    [    1.330112] ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
    [    2.280096] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
    [    2.290110] ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
    

    So now I have no doubts: my MacBook Pro is doomed.

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12. Just for the record, here is what my MacBook looked like at boot in the end of June 2010, two days after the end of the 1-year warranty:
    

    At Paris’ Genius Bar, I was told that my motherboard was dead, which cost 400€ to replace. And that’s how I finally decided to sell my MacBook Pro and get rid of all my Apple gear and proprietary software.