Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!ziploc!eps From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Advice on what to buy.. Message-ID: <1801@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Date: 28 Jun 91 03:09:34 GMT References: <1991Jun25.051301.15149@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <6030@uniol.UUCP> Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Organization: San Francisco State University Lines: 22 In article cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Charles Herrick) writes: >Good advice. But you also need to be aware of the special situation >with the NeXTstation (slab). If you open the slab and install non-NeXT >RAM yourself (as opposed to having a NeXT-certified service provider >do the job), you violate the conditions of your warranty. We had our [now former*] Campus Consultant check on this before ever opening a machine, and he told us that this was NOT true. BTW, it's just about impossible to damage one of the non-Color machines while adding RAM--you're far more likely to damage the SIMMs themselves (mechanically, not electrically). On the Color machines, the sockets are extremely fragile, but the SIMMs are reasonably sturdy. *NeXT apparently changed the "official responsibilities" of all Campus Consultants, and ours resigned in disgust. The story I heard was that NeXT decided not to have CCs performing technical support, but instead be on-site sales dweebs. -=EPS=-