Again, i'm not looking to fuel the Mac/PC debate, but lets get the facts right......so your story of warranty DENIAL because it wasn't a "time machine" backup is laughable.
Wow, really nice snipping to skew a message.
Let me guess, you work part time for the McCain campaign as well?
"no really, she commanded the ALASKA NATIONAL GUARD.........."
that one of yours??
Really tho man, it was always apple's call,not ours, and when i worked for the protools guy, we bought from a reseller, and or used user supplied computers,
and outside of the the repair job, it's always been dealing with apple consumer repairs. They were always easy to deal with.
Now, if you know what you are doing, it always helps. And if you can change
a drive yourself, they may be a bit more willing to bend, as you do all the work.
For example, if you tell Apple on the phone, that you dropped your firewire drive in the toilet while it was plugged into a wall outlet, WHILE you had it connected to your macbook backing up files, and there's now a 2 inch hole where the firewire cable melted your powerbook,
yeah, they might back off THAT one........
I have a Mac bias, but i have story after story of them fixing stuff that was borderline(at best) or down right generous. And you and your PC bias have essentially hearsay, that you are regurgitating.
Yeah, that's fair.
About 2 months ago, a friends daughter spilled Coke into her macbook.
COKE, sweet, syrupy, and impossible to remove or hide, and apple REPLACED the Macbook.(granted it was a refurb they gave her......)
Also, back in the day, Apple would fix the powerbooks i fucked up trying
to overclock or overbuss, while under warranty (and it got pretty obvious)
I had around 8 successes and 3 duds, and apple repaired all the duds.
And i wasn't working at the repair place at the time.
Just curious, Dell or Gateway ever been that good in your experience?
I can't at all make the same connection you propose that "data recovery is an admission of guilt"
There isn't a computer company out there that offers that for any normal warranty, For any reason, implied guilt or not, it's just that simple.
Perhaps if one buys some sort of Platinum protection, but i don't get or buy the correlation.
Ultimately, you've got some ammo, and you sound pretty proud of yourself,
Cool, good for you. They haven't made G4 powerbooks for about 3 or 4 years now, so you might want to get current.
I know they HAVE had problems, and it sucked for some,
but being on the end of that chain at a point, the stuff people do to computers that cost $1000+++ would absolutely amaze you.
Put it this way, even if they made a decent product with a weak link,
the way lots of people treat their computers, those that abuse them will break that weak link, those that take care of them will not have the same problems.
Yes that's oversimplifying and sometimes indeed, shankers are just shankers, i get it, but it happens in every type of electronic product at some point.
I also own an iphone, and haven't (again) had a problem.
i'm not a huge "surf the net on a tiny little screen" kinda guy, so the 3G issues some have wouldn't bother me, even if i had them.
I've owned, or i've bought/serviced for family or friends, pretty much every model Mac since the IIci(and most of the clones too) and they have all been extremely solid, year after year after year. Not perfect, but solid.
Hard drives and cd/dvd drives(that are made FOR Apple, not BY Apple, by the same people who make the drives for PC manufacturers)
go the most, but the basic structures have gone on and on for me.
Now, Os6 was ok, OS7 was great and fast, Os8 was mediocre, and Os8.6 was the bane of my existence for a few months.
Os9 i was a longtime fan of.
X was a tough transition, but the past few years in general, have been fan-fucking-tastic. Protools and audio, and plug compatibility is what it is.
No different from the 2k to xp to vista crap. It happens, no one forces
us to ride the bleeding edge. If one has a system that works, it's one's own fault if they have to have the newest/fastest, then complain when the software doesn't catch up fast enough. I know plenty of people still using a Mix system on Os9 who are happy as clams......
Personally, i partition my drives, always have. The protools drive stays at a functional build at all times, if i make the leap to a new system it goes on another partition and i test it out first, always having the stable system with it's current plugs available. I can boot between them in about 30 seconds.
So, by all means, share your positive PC experiences if you want, and or share the Mac stories you know FOR SURE, are fact, but don't be "that guy"
who spews about something he knows, from lack of actual experience, nothing or very little about.
k?