Linked by Dan Welch on Thu 30th Dec 2004 08:50 UTC
This holiday season I was given some Christmas money, and I wanted to purchase a DVD burner for my G4 Apple Macintosh computer. When I purchased my computer, I was wise in buying a tower since they are upgradeable, right? WRONG!
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Firstly, I'm a Mac person. Just to clear the air.
When I buy a Mac I buy a package. I choose what I want and then order it. That is my Mac, it comes complete, and if the hardware has issues it's not my fault. This is also what makes the Mac more stable than Windows - Apple know all the possible hardware out there, they can code to that.
I completely support Apple on this. Why should they supply you with parts that you could have got when you purchased the machine? The model number is all over the web, just get it from somewhere cheap. I'd never call Dell/HP/whoever asking for their parts except as a warrantee replacement, too damn expensive.
For the record, my G3 iMac has an upgraded HD and RAM. RAM is easy, HD not so. I did it though, and it's been fine ever since.
And that ends a pointless rant. I just thought it was fitting as a reply to this. I normally respect OSNews as, well, a NEWS source. This isn't news, just somebody's bad experience.