> Sam wrote: > I have a friend that paid over $3k for one of those stupid books. The > battery wouldn't charge so he sent it to Mac. They told him his HD was > hosed and it would cost him $1500 to recover the data.
Sounds fishy, here's why: My iBook, bought at MacMall, was in service numerous times over 4 years and was always covered "by warranty" even when my warranty had run out after 1 year. I had a display go out and the motherboard replaced in years 2 and 3 respectively, plus a few other minor issues. (I had one of the first G4s with a known video issue) Each time the guy warned me about data loss in service and said it'd cost $50 to back up my drive, but since I'd already done that, I always declined. (I never lost any data and the turn around time was always 5 days or less. Each time they would "refurbish" the entire machine! Replace bumpers, clean, replaced the keyboard once, replaced the glide pad once, etc.) Therefore my speculation: Sounds like your friend declined the backup offer and then whined because he lost data despite being warned this could happen and offered a solution. Once the data was lost the drive would have to be forensically recovered and that cost $1500. Sounds like he dug is own pit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:230044 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
