Yesterday, after a long month of waiting impatiently, my 17" Intel Mac Book Pro finally arrived. I tore open the packaging and started the process of migrating my settings over from my 15" G4 Powerbook. About 20 minutes into the migration, the Mac Book Pro rebooted itself spontaneously. "That's odd...." I thought, but after a second (three hour long) migration attempt, it worked like a champ, so I didn't think too much of it.
That was, until later, when it started rebooting itself every 30-60 minutes. Sometimes even more frequently. Doesn't matter what I'm doing, either (I'd set it down on my desk before I went to bed last night with nothing running... woke up to a login prompt).
Since "random reboots" is often a sign of bad memory in AppleLand, I had one of our Apple gurus swap out my 2GB of factory RAM for 1.5GB of RAM that was "known good". It lasted a whopping 45 minutes. Willing to overlook one transgression, it happened again 20 minutes later.
So now I'm wiping it... it's going back to "virgin" so that none of my data is on it when it goes back to Apple as a "DOA". It took a month for the first unit to arrive, $DEITY only knows how long it'll take for the replacement to get here.
So when the new MacBook arrives, how much do you want for the G4 notebook? ;-)
Well, it's work's, so.... kinda can't sell it. :-)