I think they were pulling your leg or something, Todd. Whenever I've
upgraded to a new mac, I've pulled the hard drive out of the previous one
and stuck it into the new mac and copied the contents over onto the new
mac's harddrive. Just like you can with a pc. A hard drive is just a
harddrive, pc or mac, just the formatting is different (comparing scsi to
scsi and ata to ata of course). Even if the motherboard went out, you'd
only have to replace it, just like you would on a pc. Same thing if your
monitor goes out or your hard drive fries. If you do something that fries
your whole system, like a lightning strike, you'd have to replace all the
damaged pieces, just like you would on a pc.
Dan Scott
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>Yeah, but warrenties are important because of the way many Macs are built.
>I know people who lost everything they had on their disk when their Mac
>motherboard went out, or something stupid like that - and their computer
>was out of warrenty. On a PC, you'd just take the old drive out, pop it
>into another computer, and copy the files off of it or use it as a second
>disk. With the Mac the whole computer - monitor and all was trash.
>
>Todd
>
>At 03:07 PM 2/7/01 -0600, you wrote:
>>>Yeah, but aren't Mac warrenties a measily 1 year while most big computer
>>>companies (Dell, IBM, HP, Gateway) are 3 years? Anyway, I don't think this
>>>applies to computers now anyway, I remember this from the days of the 486
>>>and early pentiums, and before.
>>>
>>>Todd
>>
>>That is correct, Macs have a measily one year warranty. Oddly enough, ours
>>just seem to keep working and working and working...
>>
>>But none of mine are over eleven years old. I'm sure some component will
>>fail, eventually. Or maybe the house will burn down. Something, for sure.
>>
>>Dan Scott (Mac Classic/8Mhz, PPC 7200/90, and a G4/400 which looks very
>>nice sitting next to my ZX-5n)
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
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