[ale] stupid pricing games

[Richard Bronosky]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Pat Regan<thehead at patshead.com> wrote:
> I wish I knew what actually caused the scratches.  If I dropped a small
> screw or something in there, the scratches are entirely understandable.
>  If it was caused by a crumb from a donut I'd be pretty disappointed
> (and probably impressed by the donut!).
>
> I imagine the truth lies somewhere in between :).

The most likely cause of the scratch is sand. Sand is everywhere. It
is extremely hard and sharp (usually silica, as in glass). My wife is
devastated by all the little scratches on her dark dark dark hardwood
floor that I tried to talk her out of.  I have also had problems with
sand getting into the case for my blackberry and scratching it up.
That is what is so nice about Apple's glass display.
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/environment.html Glass is harder than
most sand and isn't easily scratched by it.

ONE MORE THING, since there is so much talk about quality/reliability
and Apple on this thread. So far the 2 how been mentioned, but not
associated. I'd like to go on the record and say, "If you are buying
an Apple computer, you are CRAZY not to buy Apple Care." At my company
we have had 12 MacBook Pros go bad. We bought the machines in waves
and got a few different revisions but pretty much the same
configuration. I'm pretty sure that all 12 of the ones that failed
were 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo with the GeForce 8600M GT. Everyone of them
failed in the same way; Loss of video, will not POST, sleep light
stays on. Apple refuses to acknowledge the problem. Apple Care gives
you the best support in the industry, by a huge margin. I've seen
enough Apple hardware go bad that I would never make the investment in
their hardware without Apple Care.

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