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Why I buy Apple computers
About three years ago, I sold my very decent IBM Thinkpad, made the
plunge, and bought an Apple MacBook Pro. Never had any problems with it. Today, I was using it and the screen started flashing a little. Weird. So I called Apple. I'm out of warranty, but...there was an issue with the video cards on these machines, so Apple extended service for that item to four years. So I'm covered. The tech made an appointment for me at the Apple store. I'm not sure what the repair is, but "it will be fixed," I was assured, and at no cost to me. Interestingly, this laptop cost me less than the Thinkpad I had. I had that machine for about five years, I think, before I sold it. Boating related, because I run chart plotting software on the Macbook Pro. -- http://flickr.com/gp/hakr/8272ug |
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Why I buy Apple computers
On 12/11/11 8:45 PM, Boating All Out wrote:
In article3vydnQiCw47z0HjTnZ2dnUVZ_radnZ2d@earthlink .com, dump-on- says... About three years ago, I sold my very decent IBM Thinkpad, made the plunge, and bought an Apple MacBook Pro. Never had any problems with it. Today, I was using it and the screen started flashing a little. Weird. So I called Apple. I'm out of warranty, but...there was an issue with the video cards on these machines, so Apple extended service for that item to four years. So I'm covered. The tech made an appointment for me at the Apple store. I'm not sure what the repair is, but "it will be fixed," I was assured, and at no cost to me. Interestingly, this laptop cost me less than the Thinkpad I had. I had that machine for about five years, I think, before I sold it. Boating related, because I run chart plotting software on the Macbook Pro. So you used a Thinkpad for 5 years and sold it still working. Now your Apple breaks down after 3 years. You have a computer with a flashing screen that may or may not be the same again, and an unknown time-consuming hassle before you'll know. And you say that's why you buy Apple. Riiiight. D'oh. The screen flashing is only at start-up, and according to a service bulletin from Apple is a known issue for *some* of the video adapters Apple sourced from NVIDIA. Apparently the defect can show up immediately or years after purchase. What's important to me is that Apple extended the warranty for my model laptop, told me about the extended warranty almost immediately after I called, had a service bulletin number for the problem, and made an appointment for me to have it fixed at my convenience this week. I'll be in and out of apple store in 15 minutes...unless they are fixing it while I wait, in which case I'll be there for an hour. There's no hassle involved. If I am at the store for an hour, I can do some holiday shopping at the mall, and avoid going there this coming weekend, which I was expecting to do. I buy Apple because of the ergonomics, because of the operating system, and because of the first-class customer service. I've never spoken with anyone at Apple who isn't in the United States and who doesn't speak unaccented English. Apparently there are no "Peggies" at Apple support. -- http://flickr.com/gp/hakr/8272ug |
Why I buy Apple computers
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:40:13 -0500, X ` Man
wrote: Boating related, because I run chart plotting software on the Macbook Pro. === Question for you. Is it possible to transfer jpeg photos from an IBM PC to a Mac by putting them on a USB memory stick and reading them back in on the Apple? |
Why I buy Apple computers
On 12/11/11 9:07 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:40:13 -0500, X ` Man wrote: Boating related, because I run chart plotting software on the Macbook Pro. === Question for you. Is it possible to transfer jpeg photos from an IBM PC to a Mac by putting them on a USB memory stick and reading them back in on the Apple? I'll have to give that a try. I haven't used a memstick in a long time. I've had no difficulty transferring jpg's from OS 10 to Windows OS and the reverse running Windows under an emulator. |
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Why I buy Apple computers
In article , dump-on-
says... On 12/11/11 8:45 PM, Boating All Out wrote: In article3vydnQiCw47z0HjTnZ2dnUVZ_radnZ2d@earthlink .com, dump-on- says... About three years ago, I sold my very decent IBM Thinkpad, made the plunge, and bought an Apple MacBook Pro. Never had any problems with it. Today, I was using it and the screen started flashing a little. Weird. So I called Apple. I'm out of warranty, but...there was an issue with the video cards on these machines, so Apple extended service for that item to four years. So I'm covered. The tech made an appointment for me at the Apple store. I'm not sure what the repair is, but "it will be fixed," I was assured, and at no cost to me. Interestingly, this laptop cost me less than the Thinkpad I had. I had that machine for about five years, I think, before I sold it. Boating related, because I run chart plotting software on the Macbook Pro. So you used a Thinkpad for 5 years and sold it still working. Now your Apple breaks down after 3 years. You have a computer with a flashing screen that may or may not be the same again, and an unknown time-consuming hassle before you'll know. And you say that's why you buy Apple. Riiiight. D'oh. The screen flashing is only at start-up, and according to a service bulletin from Apple is a known issue for *some* of the video adapters Apple sourced from NVIDIA. Apparently the defect can show up immediately or years after purchase. What's important to me is that Apple extended the warranty for my model laptop, told me about the extended warranty almost immediately after I called, had a service bulletin number for the problem, and made an appointment for me to have it fixed at my convenience this week. I'll be in and out of apple store in 15 minutes...unless they are fixing it while I wait, in which case I'll be there for an hour. There's no hassle involved. If I am at the store for an hour, I can do some holiday shopping at the mall, and avoid going there this coming weekend, which I was expecting to do. I buy Apple because of the ergonomics, because of the operating system, and because of the first-class customer service. I've never spoken with anyone at Apple who isn't in the United States and who doesn't speak unaccented English. Apparently there are no "Peggies" at Apple support. Maybe you'll learn not to buy crap choked full of Chinese chips. |
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Why I buy Apple computers
On 12/11/11 9:30 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 12/11/11 9:07 PM, Wayne.B wrote: On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:40:13 -0500, X ` Man wrote: Boating related, because I run chart plotting software on the Macbook Pro. === Question for you. Is it possible to transfer jpeg photos from an IBM PC to a Mac by putting them on a USB memory stick and reading them back in on the Apple? I'll have to give that a try. I haven't used a memstick in a long time. I've had no difficulty transferring jpg's from OS 10 to Windows OS and the reverse running Windows under an emulator. Updates: Will have to buy another memstick, since I can't seem to find any of the half-dozen I used to have kicking around here. I'd say the dog ate them, but...we don't have a dog, and the cats aren't dumb enough to eat that sort of stuff. I'm still looking, though. Got to be one somewhere. Got an email from the Apple tech I spoke with on the phone about my MacBook Pro. The "repair" consists of replacing the logic board (Apple's term for motherboard), one whose hard-wired video chipset doesn't have the "problems" of the video chipset I now have. I still don't know if it is a "while you wait" repair. Probably not at this time of year. It takes about 20 minutes to get to the logic board in these MacBooks...and the case fasteners are "0" sized Phillips head screws. Then it is probably another 20 minutes to remove and replace the logic board. |
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