Re: Re> OT: new macbook rant

["Warren Sirota" <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

which reinforces a point i made early in this discussion: almost all laptops have an inherently flawed design in that the connectors are soldered to the motherboard, so that if any of these break, it's a new mb for you. now, consider that since it's a laptop, you're likely to be plugging and unplugging these things constantly. hence, insurance is mandatory. i just had a mb replaced (for free) because the headphone jack stopped working. my last laptop, i did not have insurance and just had to live with a dead headphone jack until it was time to junk the computer. but if it had been my fw port instead, well, game over.

(fortunately, at least the macbooks have that magnetic power connector that is unlikely to be subject to the same failure rate, i'd imagine).

yet when i spoke to applecare about my current laptop, they said "logic board replacements are fairly rare". i find this a bit hard to believe. but it must be true, since they are probably saving about 10 cents/unit with the soldering to mb concept, (just a guess)  so, if it costs them $350 to replace a mb (another guess, including labor), only one in 3500 laptops are probably failing for this reason.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

For a Powerbook I bought long ago it took me almost exactly one year
to afford the insurance. So I took the insurance in the eleventh hour
and then happily used it for almost two more years. One week before
the third year was to end I took it to a repairing service house
because I had not been able to use the network port for months. Now,
the network port was part of the motherboard and they  put in a brand
new motherboard in it for me, at no additional cost! That is a nice
story :-))

A less nice story is a G5 I bought and since it was built as a tank
and no one had ever heard about any problems with the model (except
for the graphic card in the early build, but I got a new graphic card
within the first year when the insurance is always valid) I didn't
think I would have to let go of money for a protection plan. Then the
mother board died and I had to pay for it myself because it was my
working computer and I run my own freelance business. :-( Dammit - I
should have bought the AppleCare for that one as well!

p


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:47 PM, L.Angulo <labaloops@yahoo.com> wrote:
> gr8  tip thanx Per!
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> www.myspace.com/luisangulocom
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> --- On Fri, 11/14/08, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> You still have the option to pick up the AppleCare
>> protection plan
>> until one year after the purchase.
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>> Greetings from Sweden
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>> Per Boysen
>> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
>> www.looproom.com (international)
>> www.myspace.com/perboysen
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