MacShrine

We didn’t actually believe the reports of MacBook peeling, we’d just seen pictures of paint chipping. Thanks to a reader, here’s a picture of their MacBook… Yikes. It does look nicer beneath the plastic though.

14 Responses to “Extreme MacBook Peeling?”

1. rahrens Says:
   September 18th, 2006 at 12:27 pm

   Why are you publishing this now? These picturess have been on the Web since the third week after the MacBook was released!

   This is NOT new news!

2. mungler Says:
   September 19th, 2006 at 9:25 am

   i dont get this… the macbook has a layer of rubberized stuff on top of the case plastic. THAT is what is peeling here.

3. n3rd Says:
   September 19th, 2006 at 10:14 am

   … because nuts like you still believe that apple is all about quality.

4. Webster Phreaky Says:
   September 20th, 2006 at 5:04 am

   All the Apple Kool-Aid Drinkers are sooo brain washed and delusional, they live in a Fantasyland of Candy Macs and Lollypop iPuds.

   Apple has a LONG history of selling Buggy, Flawed and Over-Priced Hardward …. NONE OF WHICH THEY EVEN MAKE! Apple has NEVER made their own portables … the Sony / IBM operation in Japan made ALL PowerBooks up to the G4 PowerBooks, ALL G3 iMacs were made in Korea by Hyundai (yeah, the guys who started and made POS eMachines), and so it goes right down to the Commie Chinese Sweatshop iPuds.

   EVERY PowerBook and iBook (now the MacBook / Pros) have BEEN BUGGY and Flawed since the RETURN of Stieve Gods. EVERYONE know the Flaws of the G3 iBook, the over-heating, lousy wireless, chipping - pealing - flaking paint G4 PowerBook with Cloudy LCD’s on the “AlumiBooks” caring on the family illness history.

   And now look at this line of MacIntel Book piece of shit notebooks. Bugs reported ever week on macfixit.com

   Did you see PC Magizine’s “reliabilty poll” where Mac Owners rated their Macs “Books and Pros” as the “best”!!!??? I TRUELY believe that Mac owners ARE Mentally Ill in their Apple Kool-Aid Drinker Delusions. Like Alcoholism, Macism is a disease. Just Say No.

5. osman Says:
   September 20th, 2006 at 11:11 am

   Allow u rahrens hes tryin to do the best he can , y u gunning him go another webiste then batty man … safe for da info i peeled my mac wiv ur guidance…bigup macshrine 4 lyfe….norfweezie

6. rahrens Says:
   September 20th, 2006 at 12:13 pm

   Ok, I’ll feed the trolls.

   Nobody is saying that Macs don’t have problems. Since you DO seem to be trolling the mac web sites, you’ve undoubtedly noticed Mac users slamming Apple for problems? Most recently the iTunes upgrade to 7?

   I happen to own one of the MacBooks in question. No peeling. No sudden shutdowns. No fan noise. No overheated CPU, so my balls only get overheated the way nature intended. I upgraded to iTunes 7 and, guess what? I lost a single music video. So, yeah, I had an issue. Big woop.

   And so Apple doesn’t MAKE their MacBooks? So what? Do you think that’s an argument in YOUR favor? I’d say it just proves why Apple has the same kind of issues everybody else does: because the same plants that make other notebooks make Apples.

   Apple does, though, DESIGN their own hardware. As much as you’d like to deny it, Apple’s published figures show their failure rates are between industry average to a bit below that. They just get reported more often. So what? Their customer service is rated the best in the business. If the customer in the picture took his/her MacBook back to an Apple store, i GUARANTEE Apple replaced it, no questions asked.

   The point of my remarks in the first post are that this issue, and this EXACT photo, were reported elsewhere in the Mac Web world not more than a month after the MacBook was released. This was NOT NEW news.

   You can be as insulting as you wish. The point to me is that independant research firms have noticed that among consumers, Apple is at the top of the heap when it comes to customer satisfaction. That means I put my money where my mouth is. If you don’t own a Mac, get the F*** outta our space and go back to where you came from.

   Your remarks amount to the computer world versiuon of penis envy.

7. roanne Says:
   September 22nd, 2006 at 2:45 am

   i never thought macbook would undergo such hideous exfoliation. good thing, ours hasn’t peeled off yet.

8. Excursioner Says:
   September 24th, 2006 at 6:51 am

   My MacBook is the Best Mac I have owned yet. And yes Apple manufactures its products as all techno companies in the world, in good old China. But the difference is the Product Design, and I’m not referring to the esthetic part, I’m talking about the CORE, the inside construction of their machines (best in the market), and of course the unbeatable Soul (the software). Man, they’ve created the Best Operating System in the world, with OSX you’re playing with the future today.
   Let’s not talk about what the other do (Microsoft) who buy products from other companies and renaming them with names like Zune.

9. groundtrooper Says:
   September 24th, 2006 at 10:34 pm

   yep! Zune is not more than a Toshiba Gigabeat S MES30VW. I can tell you the Toshiba version is 1000 times much better than the one with the Microsoft sticker on top.

10. Cookiemonster Says:
    October 12th, 2006 at 12:05 am

    Woohoo…so much commotion….by the way does it happen with all macbooks or just certain ones…
    i am intending to buy one for my mom, so need to know.
    thanks in advance

11. DoriKiN Says:
    February 10th, 2007 at 5:21 am

    Yes, Yes Apple isnt all bout quality. Just as all the company’s its out to make bucks, and huge bucks. But i just ordered a macbook, and i already wanna reapaint it…
    Anyone any idea on how to do it properly? I want to get a nice finsh. Coat it with some polish or something.

12. ME! Says:
    May 20th, 2007 at 6:55 pm

    KAI, WTF! when you buy someting like a cell phone there is a protectant on it so that it does not get damaged out broken while being shipped! It look’s like that it what is peeling off the MacBook and the the actual computer it self. ( just common sence)

13. Austin Says:
    July 25th, 2007 at 2:58 am

    You guys are getting too heated over this…it’s just shedding :3.

14. macbook1stgen Says:
    February 7th, 2008 at 3:22 am

    it only peels if u put something on it that burns acrilic happened to me so i bought a silicon thing that goes over that part and keyboard good as new !

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