MacBook Pros Have Hard Drive Problems?

cartoon_defeat_183025Many of us who have been using notebook computers heavily for years have experienced the “Blue Screen of Death” at least once. The sinking feeling you get when you have been working away fine and then the notebook refuses to do one more thing. It simply dies. Normally when we think about the BSOD we have a Windows machine in mind, but our boss Om Malik discovered the hard way that MacBook Pros are subject to them, too. He had not one, not two — three new 15-inch MacBook Pros die over the past few days, and he’s understandably upset. The diagnosis for all three notebook deaths: bad hard drive.

Om is a self-proclaimed Apple fan boy, so this is a particularly stressful time for him. It just goes to show that while Macs have the reputation of “just working”, bad components can bring things to a halt quickly. The Apple Geniuses admitted to Om that the hard drives in the new 15-inch MacBook Pros have been failing.

We wait to see if Om’s fourth MacBook Pro will escape the same fate as the first three, but meanwhile he’s using a ThinkPad to get things done. I must add that I have used ThinkPads for over a decade, and I can’t remember having one fail even once.

What does a Mac BSOD look like? Om’s photo tells the tale:

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