Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

2003-02-28 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
on 28/02/03 01:30, Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't IBM warrant the drive for 3 years ? Not if it is an Apple OEM drive. Apple buys drives from the major manufacturers and the manufacturers wipe their hands of them. If you buy an IBM drive from a company like

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

2003-02-27 Thread Dan K
First Hal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I'd offer this one up to the list before I post it to any of the boards or eBay: This is an Apple OEM IBM Travelstar 60GB hard drive pulled from a Powerbook G4. This is the high end drive that was an option on the stuff snipped expensive. I've

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

2003-02-27 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 2/27/03 6:32 PM, Dan K [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I think Kyle's point above regarding warranty was about the _drive's_ warranty, not that of the PB into which the drive would end up. AFAIK, Apple won't void your PowerBook's warranty for something which they themselves

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

2003-02-27 Thread Hal
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 04:05 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: On 2/27/03 6:32 PM, Dan K [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I think Kyle's point above regarding warranty was about the _drive's_ warranty, not that of the PB into which the drive would end up. AFAIK, Apple won't

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

2003-02-27 Thread Hal
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 01:08 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: On 2/27/03 3:34 PM, Hal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I thought I'd offer this one up to the list before I post it to any of the boards or eBay: This is an Apple OEM IBM Travelstar 60GB hard drive pulled from a

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

2003-02-27 Thread Hal
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Malcolm Cornelius wrote: If I were to buy the drive from you there is no warranty. Even if Apple somehow extended the warranty to a 3rd person it would only be a 1 year warranty. If I were to buy that exact same drive from Transinternational I

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

2003-02-27 Thread P. Turtle-Bear Guillermo
On 2/27/2003 6:30 PM Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not if it is an Apple OEM drive. Apple buys drives from the major manufacturers and the manufacturers wipe their hands of them. If you buy an IBM drive from a company like transinternational then you get the full 3 year warranty. Is

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

2003-02-27 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 2/27/03 11:52 PM, P. Turtle-Bear Guillermo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: On 2/27/2003 6:30 PM Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not if it is an Apple OEM drive. Apple buys drives from the major manufacturers and the manufacturers wipe their hands of them. If you buy

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

2003-02-27 Thread P. Turtle-Bear Guillermo
On 2/27/2003 9:58 PM Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this just for the PowerBooks? I pulled a problem (Apple branded) Maxtor from a friend's 2 year old G4, replacing it with a new and larger drive. I got an RMA, sent in the old Maxtor still under warranty, and got a replacement for

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

2003-02-27 Thread Dan K
Kyle Hansen wrote: I checked and it would not be covered since it is Apple OEM. It falls into the 1 year warranty only category. 'K, so it's _NOT_covered_at_all_ by IBM/Hitachi? It's just covered as part of an Apple system? But then Hal wrote: I checked the warranty, and it expires this