No Mac for me

[RandyL]

How smoking can ruin your Mac

 

This would be a good selling point for a PC.

 

Notice that they mention nicotine as being listed as "hazardous" by OSHA but don't seem to have a problem with other "hazardous" materials commonly used in households.

 

Or is it maybe that they think a Mac is only suitable to be used in a pristine environment? Does that mean no frying foods in your kitchen? What about taking it to work in a factory that uses carcinogenic chemicals? Many new carpets release hazardous fumes for some time after being installed. Does this mean using a Mac in a brand new office setting can void a warranty?

 

I don't see any mention of this being a dirt or grime issue so I guess it's ok to hand dust your furniture, vacume your rugs, use it at a construction site or outdoors. Unless of course you count car exhaust as "hazardous". I wonder what they would say if you used it regularly on a bus that burns diesel fuel.

 

And just to get even more silly would they service it out of warranty? If I spilled coffee in it would they service it if I paid for it? Look at the list of chemicals in coffee before you answer that.

 

But I'm not done yet. What about the compounds that are already used in a computer?

 

Need I say more?

[Tootech]

The world has indeed gone mad!!!

 

Want a Mac without the expense and dippy warranties??

 

Buy yourself a Leopard Install DVD, and one of these

 

Rebel EFI - Boot and Install any OS on your hardware

 

:cool::cool:

[Plastic Nev]

Madness indeed chaps, I also wouldn't get a Mac fixed, and I bet they would go overboard with me, as pipe smoke will no doubt be even more noxious to them.

 

However, I can tell a story from the days when a main frame hard drive was around the size of an old LP record in diameter and about ten disks thick. The hard drive replaced all those wonderful spinning reels of magnetic tape, and stood in a quite large box as a separate item from the processing equipment.

 

They were housed in a controlled environment room, and smoking in there was definitely banned. The reason given was that the smallest particle of dust, and that includes smoke particles, would do irreparable damage to the disks or read head.

 

I doubt that such damage could occur to the hard drive of today, as they are enclosed in a sealed container.

[Shellack]

Re: No Mac for me

 

After reading the article in question I can sympathize with the two people who tried to have there machine repaired only to be refused by apple. I bought a cheap iMac a few years back, it worked fine for about two years then one day I decided I wanted to upgrade the HDD (Harddisk), I contacted apple about a replacement HDD the quote I got for the upgrade was £175 for a new HDD and an additional £175 for the work to be carried out, when I inquired about just buying the replacement HDD on it's own I got informed they didn't do that and that it would have to be sent off for the works to be completed. I then went down to the local PC World bought myself a nice fat 350Gib HDD for approx £69.99 and came home to dig out my security screwdriver set and voided my warranty by removing all the special security screws and performing the upgrade myself. It was a little bit fiddly and I probably cursed and swore a few times making the new HDD fit back where the old one had come out from as believe me replacing the HDD in one of those bubble shaped domes with a screen attached is no easy feat. But I still remember to this day I pulled it off at a fraction of the cost apple quoted for the upgrade and it served me faithfully for ages. The moral of this story is, don't buy apple, I loved my iMac and it served me faithfully but if your looking to buy a computer I would seriously suggest buying a Tower and then if you need to, upgrade the part's yourself as you'll save a fortune in the long run. Apple's are nice, but what makes an apple desirable is the Operating System it's running which is closed source based on FreeBSD & Darwin (OSX) The open source alternatives are just as good if not better... Check out Good OS - gOS and Cloud operating systems

 

You'll find it looks surprisingly apple like... :D

[muppet rebecca]

My sister just before christmas brought a mac laptop which I think was rather silly because she already had a perfectly workable bog standard laptop. Anyways she went to bed and left the laptop on which then resulted in 15 minutes the next morning trying to work out how to shut it down. I think macs are too expensive for what there worth in the grand scale of computers. So they might be slimline and they might apparently have less problems that go wrong with them, along with being "gorgeous" in looks according to one of my friends. However if something goes wrong with them it costs too much to warrant the need for it. Personally I think there rip offs in the world of computing but that's just my humble opinion.