On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 05:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reality: Apple knows that internal modems are the dumbest thing ever invented, but they're also very high profit repair item! Bringing a surge up the phone line directly into your computer is just ASKING for a repair bill! :)
Actually, most modem phone signals are opto-isolated from the main computer circuitry. Doesn't help, as the phone-line side of the modem still fries, but it's just replacing the modem that's necessary.
That just hasn't been my experience. I've had a number of customers over the last few years fry their iMac and PowerBook modems. Simply swapping out the modem, especially in an iMac, is a fix that works rarely...
- Dan.
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