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From: sl242030@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Robert P. Humphrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Leave the Mac on
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.040119.12074@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 04:01:19 GMT
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In article <1991Feb28.205440.13514@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:
>DBG@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
>
>>When you consider the environmental impact of leaving the mac powered
>>up, you should also consider the cost in energy of replacing failed
>>parts (usually a whole board is discarded and replaced). This cost is
>	^^	^   ^^    ^^   ^    ^^      ^     ^^
>
>To the best of my knowledge, this is wrong in the case of Apple
>computer.  Board swaps are done simply because it is faster to stock
>and install working replacements, than to keep the machine down while
>some yahoo plays with the circuit board.
>
>I believe apple has technicians to do repairs at a national, central
>facility, with advanced diagnosis tools.  Repaired boards on day live
>again in other macintoshes.  Most mainframe makers follow the same
>policies, because it is too wasteful not too.
>

	I know this to be true.  I do some courier work for a store
that deals exclusively with Macintosh.  I also had to get my drive
replaced there.  (If you wanted to know why your mother told you to
never lend anybody anything that you didn't want hurt, and you wanted
to know the greatest possible application of Murphy's Law I've ever
witnessed, and finally, why I think that non-computer users are
inherantly stupid, let me know.)  Anyway, instead of taking the drive
apart and replacing the smashed drive head, I had to buy a new drive,
and trade in my old one, which the shop sends back to Apple, where
they replace the $3 wicket and sell it to someone else for $300.

Sometimes it pays to order your own parts and fix it yourself, but I
couldn't find any for the new SuperDrive.  Apparently knowbody had
broken theirs yet but me (or rather, my ex-friend).









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       Robert Humphrey,       "It's easy to grin when your ship comes in,
       Gentleman Scholar      And you've got the stock market beat;
                              But the man worthwhile, Is the man who can smile,
   sl242030@ucs.indiana.edu   When his shorts are too tight in the seat."
                                                  -Ted Knight, Caddyshack
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