Second hand has its own issues. At least in my experience there is something to be said about warrantees. I don't tend to use much in the way of warrantees because I am a to it yourself'er, I have a bit of formal training, working on some more, and have been working in the tech support industry for several years now. I figure I have more time than money. But warrantees are a good thing. And no one is giving me a warrantee on the 4-8 year old hardware I have around in my workshop.
Couple other notes, large number of people is relative. Also, consider that similar symptoms may not be caused by the same root cause. Lastly, logically Apple would not save themselves much money or time by excluding the minority [in comparison to the total 860,000 iBooks sold during the affected years, the couple months on each end that Apple does not claim are included is pretty minor]. Therefore its only logical to conclude that Apple narrowed down the cause as accurately as they could and is not excluding the "large number of people" on purpose. Simply put, motivation is lacking.
David
On Jan 30, 2004, at 10:54 PM, Robin Ashe wrote:
No need to start flaming.
Of course they only cover certain models, which doesn't happen to include
the one my mom is having troubles with (as well as a large number of other
people).
Regardless, I wouldn't want a new Mac, I'd want an old one that has been
proven to be reliable. Of the 3 Macs my family has had that worked, all of
them that had no problems were second hand, the new one had a CD drive
problem (which was due to faulty design).
On 1/30/04 7:57 PM, "David M. Ensteness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oh wait, thats what Apple did! Woohoo!
Oh and they said they would pay back anyone who had already paid for the repair. Although I am sure Robin is mad they won't drive to each individual house hold and give them a new Mac and $1,000.00.
David
On Jan 30, 2004, at 9:11 PM, Brandy wrote:
Solution! Apple make or (aquire) all new reliable replacement parts, consumer sends em in; get em fixed! Everyone's happy! No B.S., NO lawsuits, NO higher prices! Quite simple! Brandy
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