Hey ho
6 months ago I bought a 12" iBook G4. Even though I was always planning on using it for simple word processing, music playing etc stuff, I chunked it up with 1.25GB of RAM and an 80GB. Bit of a silly decision, but I'll come back to that later.
2 months ago, the backlight or something died, and the monitor ceased to work. I didn't do anything since at the time I had GCSEs to worry about, and didn't need the stress of dealing with Apple's notroiously poor customer service. After a while, I dropped it off at a "local" (2 hours away if I want to use my warrantee, natch) Apple store, who said they'd fix it.
3 weeks later, while I am on vacation, my Dad picks it up, without testing it in store, and takes it home. 2 days ago, I try booting up, and am somewhat astonished to see that the screen is still dark as ever. I've called up the store, who will take it back in and hopefully fix it this time.
However, then I found out about the iBook updates. This has got me thinking. Since my iBook was somewhat overpowered to begin with, would it be worth cashing in on the warrantee, handing it back to Apple as damaged, and trying to get my money back (the damage was not caused through abuse, I simply turned it on one day, and nothing happened on the screen). Then, taking this cash, and plugging most (but not all) into a newer, slightly less powerful (for the record, thinking 768MB-1GB and a 60GB HD) 12" iBook. Also, there would be all the new bling like drop protection, BT-2.0 etc.
Would Apple accept that the machine was broken, and refund me? Or is that an idle dream? Also, is it worth keeping the machine I know?Considering I do not, nor will I ever, use intensive apps on it (All A-Level choices and degree ambitions focus on essay writing), is there a point. Indeed, is there another option that I havent caught onto?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Cheers
Dave
6 months ago I bought a 12" iBook G4. Even though I was always planning on using it for simple word processing, music playing etc stuff, I chunked it up with 1.25GB of RAM and an 80GB. Bit of a silly decision, but I'll come back to that later.
2 months ago, the backlight or something died, and the monitor ceased to work. I didn't do anything since at the time I had GCSEs to worry about, and didn't need the stress of dealing with Apple's notroiously poor customer service. After a while, I dropped it off at a "local" (2 hours away if I want to use my warrantee, natch) Apple store, who said they'd fix it.
3 weeks later, while I am on vacation, my Dad picks it up, without testing it in store, and takes it home. 2 days ago, I try booting up, and am somewhat astonished to see that the screen is still dark as ever. I've called up the store, who will take it back in and hopefully fix it this time.
However, then I found out about the iBook updates. This has got me thinking. Since my iBook was somewhat overpowered to begin with, would it be worth cashing in on the warrantee, handing it back to Apple as damaged, and trying to get my money back (the damage was not caused through abuse, I simply turned it on one day, and nothing happened on the screen). Then, taking this cash, and plugging most (but not all) into a newer, slightly less powerful (for the record, thinking 768MB-1GB and a 60GB HD) 12" iBook. Also, there would be all the new bling like drop protection, BT-2.0 etc.
Would Apple accept that the machine was broken, and refund me? Or is that an idle dream? Also, is it worth keeping the machine I know?Considering I do not, nor will I ever, use intensive apps on it (All A-Level choices and degree ambitions focus on essay writing), is there a point. Indeed, is there another option that I havent caught onto?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Cheers
Dave
