Apple hardware never fails

Digital_Damage · Post by **Digital_Damage** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:45 pm

oops....

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/ ... mments-bar

Rave · Post by **Rave** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:48 pm

Bored?

LoopStationZebra · Post by **LoopStationZebra** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:57 pm

hateful lies.

inmazevo · Post by **inmazevo** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:13 pm

We'll see if this fixes it:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20045613-263.html

Wish I had the new one. My work got me the last model about 2 weeks before the new ones came out.
I could have had a quad... arghhh...

Ah well, it's a free computer.

- zevo

savis · Post by **savis** » Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:50 pm

I have IPOD touch 16 GB. The date changed automatically and couldn’t change it at all. The time zone is selected correctly but the time is still incorrect. Any solution?

loydb · Post by **loydb** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:51 pm

Anyone who thinks computers never fail hasn't used them very much for very long. The difference is in how the company handles failure.

I've had Dell laptops die. I've had HP laptops die. In both cases, it took weeks to deal with, and the customer service process was so horrible that I vowed I'd never buy another laptop from them again.

A couple of weeks ago, the hard disk on my wife's MacBook Pro died. I made the first support phonecall at 8 AM on a freaking Saturday morning. Six hours later, I left the Apple store with a new hard disk installed and a couple of iPad 2's as well.

Six hours.

By the end of the day, Time Machine had flawlessly and perfectly restored everything to the MBPro, resulting in a total data loss of everything that had happened between 6 AM (the snapshot time) and 8 AM when it crashed -- basically, she lost 2 hours of web browsing cookies.

So yeah, Apple hardware fails, just like everyone else's. The difference is what happens afterward.

twisted-space · Post by **twisted-space** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:05 pm

And I had a screen go faulty on a dell XPS, and had an engineer at my home the next morning to replace it.

3 year next day on site, cheaper than 3 year applecare as well.

Everyone's experience is unique.

headquest · Post by **headquest** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:27 pm

twisted-space wrote:And I had a screen go faulty on a dell XPS, and had an engineer at my home the next morning to replace it.

3 year next day on site, cheaper than 3 year applecare as well.

Everyone's experience is unique.

Yep, even stuff out of warranty/paid support, I have found DELL to be truly impressive

loydb · Post by **loydb** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:15 pm

You never owned an Optiplex then. Google it.

twisted-space · Post by **twisted-space** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:36 am

loydb wrote:You never owned an Optiplex then. Google it.

I have an optiplex 160 sff running win 7 as my media center/server.

savis · Post by **savis** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:54 pm

My Dell Latitude LCD cracked to my dismay when it fell down over a fluffy bed.

twisted-space · Post by **twisted-space** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:06 pm

Perhaps your miracle mineral supplement could fix it.

H20nly · Post by **H20nly** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:59 pm

loydb wrote:Anyone who thinks computers never fail hasn't used them very much for very long. The difference is in how the company handles failure.

well that's easy.

you just send an update through the jukebox app.

wait

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