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Slowly i am getting to the point where i am thinking to sell this piece of a notebook. After my second repair round with Apple, i am getting kernel panics quite often. This reminds me of Win98 times where the bluescreen was a well known friend in daily business. But now its 2006 and since Win2000, even Windows is quite stable and i am not going to live with the current situation. I am using this notebook as my primary development machine and you know what this means. I cant live with constant repair sessions and i also cant live with kernel panics all day long. But i can live with a 500$ loss when selling this thingy on Ebay. Why oh why did i jump onto the fanboy-bandwagon. I am slowly learning my lesson.

Back to the topic: Kernel panic. This is so weird because on a notebook you normally have zero problems with things like that because you cant change the hardware too much right? So the typical "i change my mainboard every 5 days" panics cant be there. To be precise, during my ownership of my last PC notebook (IBM thinkpad), i cant remember that i got a kernel crash under windows at all.

I will give this abysmal product another chance within the next days.... lets see. One thing is for sure. If i will really sell this thing, Apple would lose a business customer for a lifetime. Why i am so angry? When the kernel paniced, i was right inside a debugging session in my IDE with 3 active terminal shells open (tails and greps and stuff). Alone the time to be at that very point after a reboot is horrible. If you have this sort of break very often, its cheaper to immediately trash this machine without selling it at all.