Comments on: If David Pogue writes column on MobileMe mail problems I’m having, they’re real

By: Loraine Ritchey

Loraine Ritchey — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:09:14 +0000

Oh Jill seems we were both in tears and screaming with frustration that weekend because of “puters” and “is it me??? although my case was a little different I share your pain.. not a case of an apple a day eh?
http://thatwoman.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/day-gone-it/

By: HughC

HughC — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:37:58 +0000

My sympathies to you! I read David Pogue’s column, then yours – what a disaster.

My own experience with MobileMess is that it seems to work OK-ish, with the exception of Calendar throwing up a few weirdnesses, however, (and there inevitably seems to be a HOWEVER with Apple) my MacBook (core 2 duo, plenty of oomph) FREEZES for about 15 seconds every time it automatically syncs (every 15 minutes). Freezes as in becomes totally unresponsive – iTunes stops, Safari stops, Mail stops. The sync software appears to max out the CPU.

How f*cked is that?

Very.

Steve Jobs hang your head in shame.

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:02:56 +0000

That is definitely a consolation – if we use one of the Apple-authorized places to see what they can get off of the HD then return the HD to Apple, they’ll replace it no charge. My kid #2 who’s entering middle school has lucked out – she’ll get that ‘puter – with a new HD one way or another. Interestingly, I crashed numerous HD in a Compaq PC over four or five years and they replaced it at no cost each time too – BUT…I had to go through maybe two hours of phone support to “prove” to them it was crashed – now THAT is something I really hate doing – feels like such a waste of time – though I’m sure once in a while, well, you know – maybe I didn’t have it plugged in?

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:31:39 +0000

My Mac computer crashed every time Final Exams came around in college. It was a strange and cruel curse. But, I’ve had my hard drive wiped three times, didn’t pay for a thing and the old thing is still running…somehow….