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From: tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Warranties (was: Apple Hates You)
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Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 14:00:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 16 14:00:35 1987
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I second that thought!  I have had two hard disks die on my Mac SE HD20
(one was DOA, the other made horrible scraping noises on boot up so the
dealer replaced it), and the third hard disk is starting to make the
same scraping noises as the second.  In addition, I have had the analog
board replaced (have you ever stuck a piece of paper into a fan?  That's
the kind of noise my fan made one day when I powered it up.  Rather than
unsolder the fan, the dealer replaced the whole analog board).  My mouse
is also "double-clicky", but it happens fairly rarely, so I just ignore it.

I think the Mac is a great machine, but I can't really recommend it to my
friends who are quavering between spending 1/3 as much on a PC clone, because

	-Ted

P.S. BTW, yes, the upper left corner of my
     screen *does* shimmer if you look at
     it too closely. :-(

P.P.S.Yes, the fan does sound like a screaming viking, :-(
      but I have a stereo which is louder! :-)

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Ted C. Johnson
Hewlett-Packard, Design Technology Center
Santa Clara, CA
(408)553-3555
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the Mac's hardware is so *unstable*!  The 90 day warranty does little to
reassure them also.  Let's see some REAL warranties (a year) for Apple stuff!