Re: Apple a LEMON in disguise

[salfter@chakotay.ncc74656.org (Scott Alfter)]

In article <k.j.whitehead-84DAE3.12241507032000@news.massey.ac.nz>,
Keith Whitehead  <k.j.whitehead@massey.ac.nz> wrote:
>The thing that Apple is behind the times on is warranty...they have 
>always had one of the worst. I can get PCs with 3-5 year warranties with 
>out having to beg...a Mac..12 months only! Not only that any spares for 
>a Mac cost 10-20 times that of an equivelent PC part...AND the apple one 
>may be reworked, the PC one is NEW.

You think one year is paltry?  Back in the Apple II days (to bring this
thread back on-topic, since this is an _Apple_II_ newsgroup and not a
_Macintosh_ newsgroup, FYI), Apple's standard warranty was just 90 days! 
Fortunately, they still built their stuff pretty well...I have nearly
15-year-old equipment (IIe, Imagewriter, etc.) that still works like new. 
The only Apple equipment I've had to fix was a dead II+ that was given to
me, and that was a simple matter of replacing the power supply, reseating
all the chips, and disassembling and cleaning the keyboard.  Most other
18-year-old computers would've landed in the dump long ago.

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