Are newer batches of MacBooks having RSD issues?

whats the week number on the serial number

4H6**

the ** is the week number. that will indicate what week of production. a recent post on here said something that the RSDs were affect weeks 17 through 35

although who really knows at this point

I just got a replacement wk 35 so far so good. Who truly knows. There are millions of Macbooks without problems. So I am just wondereing if it poss. might be software related and some hardware. Maybe soon we will find out for sure.

i think yesterday's wall street journal (it might have been earlier in the week) had the figures that Mac laptop sales for the year were going to top 1 million this week

So if even 'only' 10% of the MacBook owners out there experience RSDs, thats 100,000 very unhappy Mac users - or just about the number of people who bought an iBook last year...

😉

If you're trying to cull users from earlier Macs or, even more importantly, away from Windows, you had better have a really stable and well-built product (or initiate a well-advertised repair/replace program) or risk angering users.

So far Apple has done badly with MacBooks.

This is my first Mac. And it have been a nightmare!!!

My Macbook was delivered yesterday and I am going to a Mac retail shop right now to claim for a replacement otherwise Im going for a refund.

All this problems described by many people here about the overheating, shotting down the computer and it doesnt come back again after you press the start bottom I had just in few hours after I put it to charge.

Other thing very noticeable which I spoted immediatelly was how this combo DVD/CD was very noisy. On the top of that it didnt autorun any of mine dvd/programs I have tryied to run on it, incluinding my USB modem instal CD;it didnt reconise my ipod files and finally when I really was convinced that something was extremelly wrong with this machine was when trying to plug my guitar in the garageband it got stuck after few minutes recording.

I have filmed every problem I had this morning with a friends help, and finally we came to this forum to check how many people had the same problem. It might became a very nice short documentary to post at youtube or produce a very nice podcast using my two years old VAIO.

I am shure that Apple will be prompt helpfull towards my problems with it, but now the next question for my documentary is: HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE?

for the heat issue try the firmware update, other than that, as long as your machine doesnt exhibit any signs of trouble, dont sweat it and enjoy your mac. i would think that if indeed there is a revision to a specific part, namely the heatsink and LB in the macbooks, that later builds would not easily come across this problem in the numbers of the previous weeks. mine is a week 33 build, if that even makes a difference at all. but if my RSD blackbook gets the new heatsink and logicboard my repair slip promises, i would imagine the build week is meaningless after that.

I have a week 29 Macbook and to be fair, it's been spot on. No RSD issues or overheating issues spotted and runs fine. Think it all depends on luck more than anything

Macbook 2Ghz, 512Mb, 60Gb, Superdrive Mac OS X (10.4.7)

the week 23 that i initially purchased still works too.

one thing to note also: the problem generally arises weeks or months after the machines are first turned on, so we wont know the answer to this question for a least half a year or better 😟

Mine started with RSD on Monday.....not happy as I had 3 dodgy MBP's and downgraded to the newer Macbook to avoid the QC issues on the Pro.....first Macbook was poorly assembled....this one had been fine....and now this. I have had 3 laptop computers Dell/Toshiba/Sony...all nothing special...but no QC issues or random shut downs. Its (in my experiance) not that easy to buy a perfect or even acceptable portable computer bearing the Apple badge. Apple badly needs to sort out the quality of its hardware.....I am not amused!

im sorry your experience was poor, but keep in mind these intel macs are the first wave in apples transition, so its probably very likely theres lots of glitches that need to be ironed out. in retrospect i kinda wish apple ran a good number of these for a few months before releasing them into the wild.

Just to put my name on the list. Bought a White MB in May at my retail shop. On Monday I left it at their service center for repair. Its got RSD, and dont know when I will get it back. Will keep you posted.

i'll be doing the same, since on my free time at work i sit on my computer and watch the repair status, hoping that magically my incessant staring will make this process any faster. sad i know.

This is my first Mac. And it have been a
nightmare!!!

My Macbook was delivered yesterday and I am going to
a Mac retail shop right now to claim for a
replacement otherwise Im going for a refund.

All this problems described by many people here about
the overheating, shotting down the computer and it
doesnt come back again after you press the start
bottom I had just in few hours after I put it to
charge.

Other thing very noticeable which I spoted
immediatelly was how this combo DVD/CD was very
noisy. On the top of that it didnt autorun any of
mine dvd/programs I have tryied to run on it,
incluinding my USB modem instal CD;it didnt reconise
my ipod files and finally when I really was convinced
that something was extremelly wrong with this machine
was when trying to plug my guitar in the garageband
it got stuck after few minutes recording.

I have filmed every problem I had this morning with a
friends help, and finally we came to this forum to
check how many people had the same problem. It might
became a very nice short documentary to post at
youtube or produce a very nice podcast using my two
years old VAIO.

I am shure that Apple will be prompt helpfull towards
my problems with it, but now the next question for my
documentary is: HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE?

Posting this same story under five different topics won't get your MacBook fixed any faster.

Macbook, 2.0 duo, black Mac OS X (10.4.7) 80 gb hd, 2 gb ram, 5g ipod, 2g ipod