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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"selling lame dvd-burners for $400 without making any profit?
what the hell..."
its quite possible to stock or sell a moderately cheap part for $400 and lose money. the selling price has no reflection on the channel set up to sell the part. if its inefficient, it can lose money even at inflated prices.
i have plenty of qualms with apple, but not supporting third party end user upgrades to relatively expensive and complicated electronic devices is not one of them. if you have been around the block a few times, you will know that many vendors have at best fair to middling support for this sort of thing. ive had it go both ways with other pc vendors.
why stop with the complaint about optical drives? why not stir the pot over apple motherboards or cpus? where do you get those? does apple sell them? does apple allow end users to install them and stay in warranty? can you get them from third parties (cpus yes, motherboards very rarely)? does apple warrant the machine after you have installed a new motherboard or cpu?
you story should have not written as is. it should have been written on a good tech forum before you made the purchase and any of thousands of mac users could have informed you of exactly how to get the best drives at the best prices and how to get them working with the greatest compatibility with your specific mac. you then could have written a glowing piece on how tech forums make the net what it is, a great place to gain knowledge and help from others without cost.
good luck with your future efforts. and see the idvd enabler i posted above if you are having any issues with it.