Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Mark Secker
the first one the hard drive died a couple of months in OK I can accept this Hard Drive often fail in the first couple months , the second one the battery was only lasting 20 minutes, my sisters had the same battery problem. the worst part is that the last one was brand new out of the box 5

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Craig Ringer
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 12:41, Shay Telfer wrote: There's the usual pressure to be more competitive which involves looking for cheaper ways to do things in order to be able to lower prices and yet keep the same profit margins. Are you surprised that the lower end gear isn't as reliable as

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Shay Telfer
Again, I can agree with that. What gets me, though, is that there's a growing history of systematic design and manufacturing problems. Would you expect the history of problems to decrease as time passes? History, by its very nature will get larger... Or perhaps people would just forget about

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Craig Ringer
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 13:17, Shay Telfer wrote: Again, I can agree with that. What gets me, though, is that there's a growing history of systematic design and manufacturing problems. Would you expect the history of problems to decrease as time passes? History, by its very nature will get

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Tobes
Well, having just bought a 20 gig ipod, I'm going to be annoyed if anything goes wrong in the next 3-6months. The ipod's been out about 2 years yeah? 'figure that's enough time to work out a few manufacturing errors. I think MS offer a one year warranty on the Xbox ... Apple offer the same

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Shay Telfer
We had a perfectly good 7220 and a perfectly good 8600 here. We only retired them early last year. The 8600's power supply did die, but given how old it was that was more than reasonable. I wasn't even aware there was a known fault with those models. The 7220's were from the Gil Amelio reign of

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Mark Secker
I think MS offer a one year warranty on the Xbox ... Apple offer the same on the 'pod. Seems crap but consistent. Anyone know what the warranties are like on similar music players (e.g. Creative's 'Zen') LOL as I was tying the text below Drake training sent me a e-mail to say that I'll get

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Mrs C
I would like to weigh into this debate. A wise man (although a Dark Side User) once said to me: Don't think of computer equipment or electronics as a purchase. Think of it as a subscription. Because you will always, at some point, have to upgrade. So don't think of your initial investment,

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread Dark Servant
Yeah, I'd be shattered if anything happened to my iPod. Just going without it for a while when it needed to be serviced was hard for me to take. I missed it every day while it was gone. I got my iPod under a student purchase so I have an extra couple of years warranty take help me sleep

Re: ipod reliability (was: 30 monitor laugh)

2004-06-17 Thread logrythm
On 17/06/2004, at 2:57 PM, Mrs C wrote: I have to say they have outstripped the competitor's products even at Apple's lowest ebb. rant ego=auto background=amateur I couldnt agree more. These (personal computers) are not normal consumer items like cars, 'if' they could be compared (IMHO) I