So, as my 12-inch is nearing its 6 months old mark, I’ve been having several problems with it. The first, which I discovered over the Holidays, is that my internal mic has stopped functioning. No idea why. Should be covered under warranty but I am two weeks to the deadline for my dissertation proposal and cannot part with my 12-inch right now. In three weeks, I will most likely send it off to Apple. Also, ever since I had my combo-drive repaired under warranty by Apple, all the little screws around my 12-inch’s casing have started randomly unscrewing themselves, so I am forced to tighten them with a screwdriver once every week to two weeks. Also, if my battery gets low, the computer will randomly go to sleep with no warning when the battery menu indicator reports it has less than 30% charged capacity. This behavior just started a few weeks ago and has dropped me out of several online chats. I tried resetting the PMU and it still happens.
The most annoying and potentially dangerous problem has been the 12-inch refusing to go to sleep when I close the lid. It seems to only happen when the fan is going. Either that, or it is waking itself up after I have closed the lid. In any case, two days ago I closed up my 12-inch, waited for the sleep slight to start pulsating, then slid my 12-inch into a file in one of the file cabinet drawers of my desk and locked the desk (which is a regular security measure by myself that allows me to keep my 12-inch plugged in and charging and keeping it secure at work while I am away from my desk). I returned about an hour later to find that my 12-inch had somehow woken up, the fan was blasting, the metal case was nearly painfully hot to the touch, and when I opened the laptop up, the screen remained dark. I had to force a restart to do anything, and then all was fine. A bit scary, but what is even more scary is that it has refused to go to sleep about three times since then with the same need to force a reboot. Anybody have any ideas what is going on with my aging 12-inch?
When I get some time in several weeks (after the proposal is turned in), I think I am going to back everything up, send this sucker off to Apple for repair, then when it is returned, blow everything away and start fresh.
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