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From: jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amigas -- why the 90 day warranty?
Message-ID: <2295@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 89 15:41:01 GMT
References: <1989Oct15.021329.2118@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <581@chem.ucsd.EDU>
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In article <581@chem.ucsd.EDU>, jmw@sdchemg (John M. Wright) writes:
> Yeah, a full year warranty would be nice.  On the other hand,
> if you go for a classy workstation like a Sun 4/330 or SPARC
> station 1, or a Personal Iris, guess how much warranty you get?
> That's right, 90 days (unless you pay for more).

I think the 90 day warranty has more to do with the fact that Commodore is
trying to run as tight a ship as possible that with the fact that the hardware
is likely to fail. IBM, being more concerned about selling to businesses and so
on, can afford the few extra bucks they will have to pay during those nine
extra months a lot more that Commodore can. 

I am still of the opinion, however, that if it works for a month, it will work
forever (and except for acts of God this has proven to be true for all the
solid state equipment I have bought).
-- 
James A. Treworgy    -- No quote here for insurance reasons --
jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu         jtreworgy%eagle@WESLEYAN.BITNET