Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!asd From: asd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Lasers cost cutting secret. Message-ID: <1600@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 1 Mar 89 22:49:09 GMT References: <8902281447.aa18108@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <9755@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1305@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Reply-To: asd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 23 In article <1305@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> millerje@handel.colostate.edu.UUCP (jeffrey scott miller) writes: >>In article <8902281447.aa18108@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes: >>>>>How is it that Laser can make a profit selling "basic computing" at prices >>>>>Apple seems unwilling to compete with? > >All I know is that in the 6 years I owned an Apple //e (I now own a gs) I >never had it, or any Apple peripheral in the shop ONCE. If Apple were to make >a sports car with the quality of their computers, I'd buy it tommorrow. Ditto. I've had a II+ since slightly before the IIe came out. I've pounded on it, smacked it around, done power on-offs in rapid succession (to see what the drive was doing and to get a slightly toasted Lode Runner to boot), fiddled with the cards WITH the power ON (pretty wild things happen here!) and all kinds of other things. So far, not one problem. It still is currently making a living with my dad at the helm. Sure like to see another computer handle this type of long-term abusin'. kareth. ps. anybody recall the adds A LONG TIME AGO with the II+ that got toasted, literally melted down, and supposedly just had the case & keyboard replaced and it worked fine. a supposed true story...anybody at apple care to validate?