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From: alex@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Alex Heatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Warranties (was: Apple Hates You)
Message-ID: <13038@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 22:42:35 EST
Article-I.D.: comp.13038
Posted: Sun Oct 25 22:42:35 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Oct-87 06:45:28 EST
References: <790@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU> <870012@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Reply-To: alex@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Alex Heatley)
Organization: Comp Sci, Victoria Univ, Wellington, New Zealand
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In article <870012@hpcilzb.HP.COM> tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
>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!

Here in New Zealand (or Aotearoa as some of us prefer) we *do* get a one year
warranty with our Apple gear. What happens is that you get the ordinary 90 day
warranty and then, if you fill out a AppleCare form, you get nine months of
AppleCare free.

Of course, at the end of your year, they send you a reminder to renew your
AppleCare, so it's a good marketing shitck as lots of people do renew.

But it does give you an extra nine months of burn-in on your Mac.

(given the number of hardware failures we have at this university, I sometimes
 wonder if the Macs that fail the factory burn-in aren't simply repackaged and
 sold to us :-))

Regards
-- 
Alex Heatley : CSC, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
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