MacBook class action lawsuit
Apple MacBook owners organizing class action lawsuit
Owners of Apple Computer's new 13-inch MacBook notebooks, whose systems are plagued by intermittent shutdown issues, have become fed up with extended repair times and inadequate resolutions to the problem, and are now organizing a class action lawsuit against the Mac maker.
The issue, which users have dubbed "RSS," or Random Shutdown Syndrome, has been well documented on Apple's discussion boards and other forums around the web. During ordinary use, affected MacBooks will randomly shut down, effectively rendering the systems unreliable.
Users have reported shutdown intervals anywhere from once a week to several times a day. Sometimes, one random shutdown will occur within minutes of the previous one, making the notebooks completely unusable.
READ MORE, by Katie Marsal, appleinsider.com
O'Grady's PowerPage
"Essentially the heatsink can expand during use, and comes into contact with the lead from the [thermometer's] sensor cable," reads a more detailed explanation posted at Ogrady's Power Page. "A short circuit results, and the SMC (System Management Controller) pulls the plug. Once the system cools down, the heatsink [recedes] and the contact is broken." READ MORE, by powerpage.org
Think Macbooks don't crash?
The story behind the site ... My wife's new 2.0 Ghz Macbook with 1GB of factory installed RAM just started randomly shutting down. What a pain! I started this site to discuss the issue. Is this happening to anyone else? READ MORE AT: www.macbookrandomshutdown.com/
Users at this Web site have chronicled their problems and have now begun to organize a class action lawsuit through ClassAction.com.
The page at ClassAction.com asks MacBook owners if they've experienced the problem, and if they've experienced unusually long periods of downtime while waiting for their computers to be repaired.
http://www.classaction.com/consumer-apple-macbook.cfm
http://www.classaction.com/
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