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From: ac08@vaxb.acs.unt.edu ((C. Irby))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Expensive doorstops
Message-ID: <28777.269224ee@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 4 Jul 90 17:18:38 GMT
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In article <1990Jul3.192829.2745@kth.se>, d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes> 

[Horror story about buying a Mac, having trouble with the campus store,
car trouble, and a dead on arrival IIfx...]


> I think that when you pay $11,500 for a <something>, it should
> at least have been QC tested & passed. (That's the price of an
> 8-bit 13" 4/80MB IIfx system with educational discount here)
> 

It did.  It was then shipped halfway across the world.

Gee- only got bounced around about a million times in between?

I'm surprised that it's not in ten or twelve pieces.

> I've bought four macs during my lifetime. Two of these have
> been DOA. Isn't this kind of "quality" hurting APple's image ?
> On the other hand, _when_ they work, they keep it up flawlessly.
> 

In all of the time I worked selling Macs, we had three DOA machines
at the store (which is a major Apple dealer).  All three were dead
from bad treatment along the way (you could tell from the boxes
that they had been bounced around pretty hard).

One more thing- check to see if the power supply is still plugged
in to the motherboard- that's a common shipping "killer."

> 	Jon W{tte, Stockholm, Sweden, h+@nada.kth.se
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