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Do oter manufacturers except Panasonic cover spills? How is the machine milled MacBooks designed to fail at the first sign of trouble? The batteries are actual
by blubbix 14y ago
Do oter manufacturers except Panasonic cover spills?
How is the machine milled MacBooks designed to fail at the first sign of trouble?
The batteries are actually designed to last for many years and pretty easy to replace with a screwdriver.
My MBP from 2008 is still going strong, and that's the less solidly built pre-unibody. Unlike many others, Apple extended the warranty because of the nVidia chipset bug.
- wmf 14y agoI don't know about warranties for spills, but Thinkpads have a drain to greatly reduce liquid damage.
- fpgeek 14y agoThe last time I checked, most major manufacturers except Apple (Lenovo, Dell, HP, ...) let you buy Accidental Damage Protection (which does cover spills among many, many other things). From what I hear, Apple can sometimes be nice about accidents, but other times they're sticklers about the rules.
- lostlogin 14y agoHere in New Zealand we have The Consumer Guarantees Act. The beauty of it is that the item is covered for as long as a reasonable person would expect (or something like that), and is suitably vague about how long this. Here is a case where a 4 year old computer was repaired at the manufacturers expense. buying extended warranties is kind of a waste here, as complaing to a government agency may well get you the same result, for free (it has worked for me). http://www.consumerblogs.org.nz/tech/2009/04/squaring-up-to-dell.html http://www.consumerblogs.org.nz/tech/2009/04/squaring-up-to-...