Mac owners!!

Karen · Feb 24, 2006

Does your Mac 'crackle'??? Like make funny little crackling noises all the time? It doesn't sound right to me :S

TheCake · Feb 24, 2006

I hear Dell have some good offers on at the moment...

Gareth · Feb 24, 2006

Karen · Feb 24, 2006

:dapprove:

Gareth · Feb 24, 2006

my mate at work has just bought one, literally arrived today, used it for about 30 minutes, no sounds at all.

Pete · Feb 24, 2006

Static crackling noises? Doesn't sound good, no electrical item should really be making noises like that!!!!

Karen · Feb 24, 2006

Oh f**k, sounds like im going to be on Mac No 3 at this rate soon :dapprove:

jon_r · Feb 24, 2006

I've had one literally blow up on me once. My current one which is a few years old now does creak occasionally, but thats the plastic casing expanding and contracting I think.

Karen · Feb 24, 2006

sounds more like little flies being electrocuted

Hayley · Feb 24, 2006

You don't "do" technology dya Karen

Is it still under warrenty? Take it back, its a potential fire hazard.

Rich · Feb 24, 2006

Doesnt sound healthy.

Gareth · Feb 24, 2006

Hayley said:
You don't "do" technology dya Karen

Is it still under warrenty? Take it back, its a potential fire hazard.

think she has only just had it, already had one replaced.

Karen · Feb 24, 2006

I've had this one a week... had the first one 2.5 weeks...

Gareth · Feb 24, 2006

i'd call apple again Karen. Kick off.

Steviant · Feb 24, 2006

FPMSL

What have you done to this one? It definitely shouldn't crackle, or make any sounds. It's that silly Intel chip that you have in it. Get a proper G5 one.

Karen · Feb 24, 2006

182WRC said:
FPMSL

What have you done to this one? It definitely shouldn't crackle, or make any sounds. It's that silly Intel chip that you have in it. Get a proper G5 one.

Should I change to a G5???

I'm beyond fucked off with Macs if this one is faulty too.

sn00p · Feb 24, 2006

Karen said:
Should I change to a G5???

I'm beyond f**ked off with Macs if this one is faulty too.

No, you shouldn't! (change to a G5 that is...)

Is it coming out of the speakers or somewhere else? What sort of crackle, does it sound electrical?

Karen · Feb 24, 2006

sn00p said:
No, you shouldn't! (change to a G5 that is...)

Is it coming out of the speakers or somewhere else? What sort of crackle, does it sound electrical?

Why is that??

Im not sure where its coming out of :S it sounds as ^^ like flies being electrocuted.

cat171 · Feb 25, 2006

Tbh honest with you Karen i'd make sure that there are no 'ahemmm' pictures on it before sending it back

wozzaa · Feb 25, 2006

No changing to the G5 one might have been round longer but there slower.

Having an intel chip in it shouldnt make any difference to the hardware making noises. Should only affect software and even then it shouldnt affect it at all really.

Just get another replacment. Typical with apple most new products they bring out have a few problems same thing with the last version of the ipods loads of them had to be sent back due to cracking screens failing to turn on etc. Just need to sort the quality problems out. But they do have good customer thankfully.

Gareth · Feb 25, 2006

ffs, whats all this talk of intel / g5?? Just send it back Karen and get an identical replacement, its all you can do, just keep going until you get one you are happy with. The sounds you are describing are obviously not right.

Karen · Feb 25, 2006

cat171 said:
Tbh honest with you Karen i'd make sure that there are no 'ahemmm' pictures on it before sending it back

I've not put anything on this one, I don't have much faith in it tbh!

Karen · Feb 25, 2006

R20GRC said:
ffs, whats all this talk of intel / g5?? Just send it back Karen and get an identical replacement, its all you can do, just keep going until you get one you are happy with. The sounds you are describing are obviously not right.

I'm unsure I want to just keep getting replacements if I keep getting faulty ones!

Fletcher · Feb 25, 2006

What model Mac do you have Karen?

My I mac only makes a sound when downloading albums [The fans come on] apart from that it's silent.

Karen · Feb 25, 2006

Fletch123 said:
What model Mac do you have Karen?

My I mac only makes a sound when downloading albums [The fans come on] apart from that it's silent.

It's the new iMac.

I have the sinking feeling I'm gonna have to f**king faff around sending this back and getting another one, the noise is really getting to be irritating, apart from not being quite right...

Fletcher · Feb 25, 2006

Karen my parents have a new imac and imo it's nowhere near as good as my imac the dome model, the crackling sound may come from the fact that it's overheating, i'm pretty sure they don't have any cooling fans.

Fletcher.

Rich · Feb 25, 2006

Maybe worth having a look here on the forums.

http://www.apple.com/support/

Lots of people are having problems with the new intel Macbook pros (I am worried now as I have one on order) maybe some of the same issues with the new intel imac.

Lot's of people are saying its because they are Rev A first versions and they are always full of problems.

My Macbook wil be my 4th Mac and all the others have been spot on, imac, and 2 G4 desktops. But am worried what the 4th machine and intel power may bring!

Karen · Feb 25, 2006

Fletch123 said:
Karen my parents have a new imac and imo it's nowhere near as good as my imac the dome model, the crackling sound may come from the fact that it's overheating, i'm pretty sure they don't have any cooling fans.

Fletcher.

Hmm interesting point, this Mac has been left on for much longer periods of time than the first one I had although I'd still expect it to cope ok!

Karen · Feb 25, 2006

r-jay said:
Maybe worth having a look here on the forums.

http://www.apple.com/support/

Lots of people are having problems with the new intel Macbook pros (I am worried now as I have one on order) maybe some of the same issues with the new intel imac.

Lot's of people are saying its because they are Rev A first versions and they are always full of problems.

My Macbook wil be my 4th Mac and all the others have been spot on, imac, and 2 G4 desktops. But am worried what the 4th machine and intel power may bring!

Thanks for the link!

Well some people did say there may be problems with it... :S

Karen · Feb 25, 2006

OK just put a cd in to copy and I got a permanent long winded crackle... :S

Hippychick · Feb 25, 2006

Send it back !!!

Doesn't sound right no matter where the crackle sound is coming from

Karen · Feb 25, 2006

But do I risk a third one or just give up on Macs???

Fletcher · Feb 25, 2006

Karen said:
But do I risk a third one or just give up on Macs???

Karen i think your just having alopt of bad luck with macs/ Apples, iv'e had my i mac for two years and it hasn't put a foot wrong,neither have any of my 4 ipods.

Hope you can either get it sorted from apple or get another pc, it''s not much fun having a crap computer.

Karen · Feb 25, 2006

lol I'm not having a lot of luck with anything at the mo!

Fletcher · Feb 25, 2006

^^^ life's like that sometimes.

Steviant · Feb 25, 2006

Send it back hun, and get a replacement one. With most new products these days, the first batch tend to be tested on the public. Mac in general, produce really good machines. I've only had one problem with my powerbook in over 2 years.

Rich · Feb 25, 2006

Like others I havent had a problem (yet!) with any off mine, send it back - hopefully you will get a good one - third time lucky?

Karen · Feb 25, 2006

r-jay said:
Like others I havent had a problem (yet!) with any off mine, send it back - hopefully you will get a good one - third time lucky?

bad luck comes in threes I think for me :dapprove:

Ambo · Feb 26, 2006

Only one more duff one to go then and thats that hassle out the way then

Don't have any experience of macs, whats the advantages?

Karen · Feb 26, 2006

Amboboy said:
Only one more duff one to go then and thats that hassle out the way then

Don't have any experience of macs, whats the advantages?

lol maybe! The crackle, after going on for almost a week, has subsided somewhat overnight so I'll see how it goes...

Well, so I kept getting told, they were more reliable :S more secure from viruses and just generally better apparently... granted the screen is amazing compared to say the new LCD screen I use at work, the Apple one is just brighter and clearer and all round nicer to work on. Working on it, it seems sort of more advanced with the inbuilt stuff. Also the iMac has everything built into the screen so its literally just a screen, keyboard and mouse, MUCH neater

Maybe someone who knows more about them will be able to answer your question better though!!!!

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