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This is not encouraging...
Last month, as regular readers will remember, my pal's iMac (FP 700) died a hard drive death. Lost everything. One month out of warranty.
This month, my other pal "Switched", and bought a new 12" PB combo drive. I installed the Airport card for him, and he went away pretty happy (except for the lack of a chess client for the online site he's used for years).
Then he called. It wouldn't turn on.... all the way. The screen stayed dark, but the HD spun up, etc. Off to the shop - turns out the Airport card wasn't fully seated, which is a common occurance for this model if you look through Apple's discussion forums. So they pushed it in with a bit more force than I used, and sent him on his way, happy.
Then he called. He had just run the Airport 3.1.1 update (following my advice to let Software Update do its thing), and now his machine was dead. Completely. Off to the shop - they say his logic board is completely dead.
WTF? An Airport update causing a dead logic board?
And it gets worse...
The artist's centre where I volunteer ordered two eMacs. I was on hand to do setup. The first one was DOA out of the box. The 2nd, thankfully, works (from which I'm posting this).
Now, sure, this is anecdotal, isolated, blah blah blah, but - they're dead Macs among three people I know, and in two cases are brand-new machines, the third just a year old.
Not encouraging, particularly when one of the three is a newcomer to the Mac....
M.
Last month, as regular readers will remember, my pal's iMac (FP 700) died a hard drive death. Lost everything. One month out of warranty.
This month, my other pal "Switched", and bought a new 12" PB combo drive. I installed the Airport card for him, and he went away pretty happy (except for the lack of a chess client for the online site he's used for years).
Then he called. It wouldn't turn on.... all the way. The screen stayed dark, but the HD spun up, etc. Off to the shop - turns out the Airport card wasn't fully seated, which is a common occurance for this model if you look through Apple's discussion forums. So they pushed it in with a bit more force than I used, and sent him on his way, happy.
Then he called. He had just run the Airport 3.1.1 update (following my advice to let Software Update do its thing), and now his machine was dead. Completely. Off to the shop - they say his logic board is completely dead.
WTF? An Airport update causing a dead logic board?
And it gets worse...
The artist's centre where I volunteer ordered two eMacs. I was on hand to do setup. The first one was DOA out of the box. The 2nd, thankfully, works (from which I'm posting this).
Now, sure, this is anecdotal, isolated, blah blah blah, but - they're dead Macs among three people I know, and in two cases are brand-new machines, the third just a year old.
Not encouraging, particularly when one of the three is a newcomer to the Mac....
M.