[Ti] What A Lemon

[Henry Kalir]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Ben Cheng wrote:

> I can not stress this enough but always, _always_ buy AppleCare for 
> notebooks.  Unless you're already replacing your notebook every year 
> and a half or so, AppleCare is worth its weight in gold after the first 
> year.  In my second year, my TiBook 500 has had its DVD drive replace 3 
> times, screen replaced twice (within 2 weeks of each other because of a 
> recurring vertical line), motherboard replaced once, and the top shell 
> (around the keyboard area) replaced once.  I practically have a new 
> computer with all the times this thing's been in the shop.      I could 
> still conceivably send it to the shop one more time for these hairline 
> cracks I have on both my screen hinges but they don't seem critical at 
> the moment.  If I hadn't extended my AppleCare I probably would've 
> spent enough to buy 2 more Powerbooks.  My hard drive has been solid 
> though.  Recently replaced it and it's still working fine as my 
> external backup.
> 

Really???

Amazing! Is this the exception, or (gulp) is this the rule?

I've got a Ti G4 800 MHz. Other than the marks on the screen (from the
keyboard) - it's been working OK...so far. I did not get any AppleCare
since it has a 1 yr warranty anyway, and at over $3000, I would hope that
it is better built than those PeeCee laptops costing about 2/3rds of my
Ti's price.

Best,

Henry