FlashsMom@cup.portal.com (NancyAnn none Sheridan) (09/22/89)
The Apple 80's are Quantums, aren't they? DOesn't Quantum have a 2 year guarantee? So said somebody on MacNet.
c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Lau) (09/23/89)
In article <22385@cup.portal.com> FlashsMom@cup.portal.com (NancyAnn none Sheridan) writes: >The Apple 80's are Quantums, aren't they? DOesn't Quantum have a 2 year >guarantee? So said somebody on MacNet. Quantum is prohibited by their contract with Apple from passing on the two-year warranty (which, I read somewhere, was recently upgraded to five years) to the masses. Thanks, Apple. --- Alex UUCP: {att,backbones}!ucbvax!franny!c8s-an INTERNET: c8s-an%franny.berkeley.edu@ucbvax.berkeley.edu FIDONET: Alex.Lau@bmug.fidonet.org (1:161/444)
straka@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (richard.j.straka) (09/25/89)
In article <17531@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU| c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Alex Lau) writes: |In article <22385@cup.portal.com| FlashsMom@cup.portal.com (NancyAnn none Sheridan) writes: ||The Apple 80's are Quantums, aren't they? DOesn't Quantum have a 2 year ||guarantee? So said somebody on MacNet. | |Quantum is prohibited by their contract with Apple from passing |on the two-year warranty (which, I read somewhere, was recently |upgraded to five years) to the masses. Thanks, Apple. Something doesn't sound right. If my implied warranty on drives sold to Apple is less than drives sold to everyone else, who is going to get my best drives that go out the door? I can see Apple's reasoning in not wanting to let the hardware repair business go elsewhere lead them to make a contract read like this, but it sure would seem like this is shooting themselves in the foot. Maybe Apple should take a lesson from the automotive industry: 5 years and 50K miles on disk drives, 1 year and 12K miles on the rest. 1/4:-) -- Rich Straka att!ihlpf!straka MSDOS: All the wonderfully arcane syntax of UNIX(R), but without the power.