While looking at the 13-inch units, one of the workers walked by, glanced at the machine, and held the power button down very routinely (like she had done that before for that unit).
I'm sure that the staff deal with display units that customers turn off all the time. Which is, according to your own comment, what was going on. Because you said yourself that you turned it off.
Perhaps if you had not turned it off and she walked up to a grey screen, you would be on to something.
apple doesn't nearly have the highest reliability, Asus's failure rate is much lower hence why their warranty is 2 years GLOBAL, also they include a 1 year accidental warranty on almost all of their laptops.
The graph is real pretty, however it lacks context. That graph was created by SquareTrade. A company that specializes in electronics warranties and loves to post 'studies' to support consumers need for their coverage. Unfortunately they lump together their undefined failures, how many actual units from each company were 'studied', or even the very important detail that their sample is of units that had claims or how many covered units have no claims by company. and so on. In short, very biased information presented in a very biased manner.
Call me when everyone wants the same thing out of a laptop.
Sturdy, highly portable (generally defined as lightweight) and great battery. Isn't that what notebook owners are looking for.
Frankly I agree with those that say that the Air form factor is the future. However I don't expect to see that future really kick in for another 3 years. It will take that long before storage drives are likely to be cheap enough to provide some real capacity.
Seriously, that is one bad ad. How did it even promote the iBook ? "You too can be the biggest jerk on the plane!"
Best part. The kid is the guy that played the annoying brother on Heroes. Actually everything he has been in as been 'the annoying' whatever.
It's been my experience that when Apple knows about an issue they are usually pretty good about addressing it.
That is my experience as well. However 'knowing' is more than just a few reports on this or that board. Which is something many folks forget. THey need data. Test results, broken machines etc. Which is why I tell everyone I know with a potentially bonked whatever that is less than a month old to definitely take it in for an appointment. And to take the box with them. Cause in my experience if it is crapped out, the managers will happily let you exchange it even if it is a week 'too late' for a return. and no 10% fee. Especially if you don't act like a douche
