Best Buy came through (*gasp*)

[Fretbuzzer]

My hated compaq (comcrap) finally died within Best Buy's warranty. I have been waiting to switch to mac ever since a friend of mine gave me a grape I mac and I fell in love with osX - even on a g3 333! Best Buy has been stocking Apple online but not in our stores. Regardless, they let me exchange my dead 2year old Compaq for a new Imac G5 20"!

Looking forward to it arriving in the mail this week. 🙂

 

[Smileyguy]

Wow, what a deal. Did you have to pay anything?

 

[Mav451]

Wow. Considering how fast PC hardware ages, you literally got 3-fold of what you paid for on your Compaq. Seriously, what a deal.

 

[Rod Rod]

This has to be the strongest argument ever in favor of purchasing Best Buy's extended warranty.

 

[dsharits]

That's awesome! I would have thought that they would either fix it or give you a newer Compaq/equivalent PC model. Either way, you made out like a bandit.

Daniel

 

[jimsowden]

Yeah, my friend bought a used 15gb iPod for $100, took the battery chord out, and would up with a new 40gb 4G ipod for free. Most people loose on the warrenty, but some people make out like bandits. I guess they're good for best buy, so everyone wins, except the people who loose, but they're dumb so it doesn't matter.

 

[Fretbuzzer]

Ideas?

I had to shell out $200 for the Imac (not complaining), but in the end, I still received full purchase for the compac almost three years later. I did not even have to fight.

Besides RAM, what should be my first purchase? 🙄

 

[atari1356]

I had to shell out $200 for the Imac (not complaining), but in the end, I still received full purchase for the compac almost three years later. I did not even have to fight.

Besides RAM, what should be my first purchase? 🙄

If your Mac came with iLife '04, you probably qualify for getting iLife '05 for $20 through Apple's Up-To-Date program:

http://www.apple.com/ilife/uptodate/

 

[Romulan]

Hey atari! Where'd you get that powerbook G5 that's in your profile 😛!