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- From: BC@cup.portal.com (Robert David Comer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Commodore warranty
- Message-ID: <74036@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 22:11:05 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1993Jan20.223012.77699@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
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- >In article <1993Jan19.154518.2123@msus1.msus.edu>, martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.
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- >D
- >U (Psigon Matrix....do you DOUBT us??) writes:
- >>In article <1jfhgeINN38t@network.ucsd.edu>, simon@ivem.ucsd.edu (Simon Lee) w
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- >i
- >tes:
- >>>In article <19676@mindlink.bc.ca> Jeff_Holinski@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeff Holinsk
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- >)
- > writes:
- >>>>
- >>>>Isn't it odd how Commodore can build a machine like the 4000, put a standar
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- >>>>set of slots into it and then say that if you open the case or install any
- >>>>cards yourself your warranty is void? (of course you have to pay a service
- >>>>charge)
- >>>
- >>>Not really, since Apple has the same policy on their Macs. I think they
- >>>expect the dealers to install the hardware, so if something bad happened,
- >>>you won't be at fault.
- >>
- >>Yea, but apple doesn't put foil stickers on the machines...they trust the
- >>user to not open if if they are told so. I had to void my warrenty already
- >>to put my scsi board in as my nearest dealer is over 1hr away and charges
- >>to install. It's VERY inconvienent to say the least. CBM may think it's
- >>trivial, but this alone has caused me to have a new view of commodore as
- >>a company. Cool hardware is one thing, customer trust is another.
- >>
- >>>
- >>>
- >>>--
- >>>* Simon Lee * Microscopy and Imaging Resource *
- >>>* simon@ivem.ucsd.edu * Intermediate Voltage Electron Microscopy *
- >>>* sulee@ucsd.edu * UC San Diego, Dept. of Neuroscience *
- >>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >>
- >>Jim
- >>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- >-
- >>Screeeemmmmmin fast 4000/040..YEEEEEEHA!! X-ASOCC (CBM Blew that one
- )
- >> Jim Martin MATRIX -- If it's made, we sell it. Almost.
- >> -----(612) 656-9693-- MARTIN@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.ED
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- >> We're almost done with the Cray module for the EmPlanT. :) heh
- >>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- >>
- >
- >
- >I am dissappointed at CBM, not only for the abandoment of the 3000 series and
- >scsi, but the radical change in the graphics interface that obsoleted the
- >3000, 2000, 1000 and 500 series.
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- Haven't you ever heard of moving forward? You gotta change, or you die! (law o
- f
- evolution, basically)
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- My 500, that sits next to my brand new A1200 still works, it didn't roll over a
- nd die
- when I got the new Amiga, and it still gets used, (though a great deal less)
-
- The A1200 is an amazing innovation, and well worth any problems it migh cause..
- .
-
- >
- >Judging from the heat problems, they did not engineer the 4000 very well
- >either.
- Any 68040 system has heat problems, even Quadra's. That chip runs HOT.
-
- >
- >Bluntly, I do not see any reason to chase the CBM will-o-the-wisp. I would
- >rather waste my finances on a (Strike me dead I never thought I would say it)
- >Mac
-
- Waste is the keyword here, I don't waste my finances, and I don't buy MAC's, on
- ly
- Amiga's (I have 3)
-
- >
- >George Bluhm
- >
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- Bob Comer
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