Don't buy a mac from an apple store, just don't

[jsw]

I wonder why apple would have them hack their macs in orther to enable monitor spanning?
Is this the only way to get a power mac to do this?

Assuming this is a serious question:

Any Mac that starts with "Power" doesn't need the hack. It allows spanning by default.

Macs starting with "i" and "e" don't allow spanning by default. They allow mirroring. The hack enables spanning on those systems.

Apple disabled spanning to help promote the sales of the Power line. There is no inherent technical reason why it should be disabled.

And, yes, I stand corrected - it does void your warranty. However, it's reversible and, as far as I can tell, hasn't failed to work for anyone. Perhaps it has - I just haven't seen news of it. Probably because it fried their Macs and they never posted again.

 

[Maxx Power]

well, apple is muscling out all the other retailers

see how apple treated its OWN retailers at:

www.tellonapple.org

 

[CubaTBird]

yeah but

When you want to by a car at 9 o'clock at night at a car dealer, the bank is open so you can finance with them. So if anyone wanted to buy a computer from apple between the hours of say 4 and the time they close, they can't finance it all and thus turned away. All Im sayin is apple should make it easier for the customer, not harder. Another thing, the sales rep "left me" if you will numerous times and was like "okay" what do I do now and where the freak is he so I can ask him something?

 

[DGFan]

Another thing, the sales rep "left me" if you will numerous times and was like "okay" what do I do now and where the freak is he so I can ask him something?

Did you ask to talk to the manager about it?