Fascinating, must show this to my wife, she keeps rolling her eyes and huffing every time I look at another Mac...
Extremely interesting, to me at least. Frank. 2009/5/11 Jason Davies <[email protected]> > > Rob Beattie wrote on 11/5/09 at 17:56 > > >I'm about to be receive a replacement MacBook from John Lewis for the > >one they lost when they were supposed to be repairing it. > > I would look into this. It might be that Apple will issue it > from one year after they ship it/log it as purchased. Talk to > Apple first. > > My experience with Applecare goes like this: every machine that > has made it faultlessly to one year has made it to at least four > or five, also faultlessly. Every machine that has developed a > slight fault (eg a weird ethernet socket fault once on an iMac) > has continued to develop apparently unrelated problems over and > over and has therefore justified Applecare. > > > The following evidence may become tedious! but it is the track > record I refer to. > > I realise this borders on voodoo thinking but it has held true with > > Se30 [worked for ages, was sold on to an artist who then filmed > herself burying it and blowing it up. That's artists for you.] > PB 150 [dropped several times, eventually screen corner stopped working] > PB 1400 [landed on this when hit by car off bicycle -- travelled > 15 feet through the air THEN landed on it. Minor cosmetic > damage, worked til I sold it to second hard dealer who left it > checking for 24 hours and said it was faultless] > iBook (clamshell, still going since 1999, rarely used) > iBook SE (developed fault, never behaved and was then stolen in burglary) > PB G4 = the best ever machine until the new unibody MB > PB G4 no 2 - the best ever machine until the new unibody MB... > iMac G4 (fault, continued faults, sold as intermittently faulty) > iMac G4 (still working, about 8 or 9 years old) > iMac G5 (still working, about 4 or 5 years old) > > The last two did get very intolerant of home-burned disks after > about three years but both stil play shop-bought ones fine. > > oh, and MB black 2.0 dual core, still used at work, weird > intermittent faults as described. > > and finally, the unibody MB which is perfect in every way. > Working fine since November.... > > > Looking back, I could probably have paid my mortgage if I had > not been into Macs... > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
