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- From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: PowerBook 160: availability, price, etc.
- Message-ID: <547RqB17w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 11:58:27 GMT
- References: <NICK.92Sep7133701@vaila.ed.ac.uk>
- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
- > In article <mZokqB9w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
- > The best advice I've seen was printed in Mac User magazine. They said don
- > buy any equipment from Apple.
- >
- > Well, at least not from Apple UK. PowerBook 100 for $2000? Nein danke.
- >
- > Nick. (Whose PowerBook 100 is currently being UPS'd from Chicago.)
-
- Well, good luck. I hope you don't suffer from the hard disk problem... it
- seems a number of PowerBooks had dodgy hard drive mechanisms fitted.
- Symptoms include periodic whining and buzzing noises whenever the drive is
- spinning (even if it's not doing anything). My PB100's hard drive had to be
- replaced. The engineer said they'd had several in with the same problem.
-
-
- mathew
-