[luau] NEWS: New Copyprotected CD's destroy iMacs

[Joe Linux]

The more you learn about Apple, the more you'll know not to buy one. 
 They are for people who know nothing about PC's and are therefore 
willing to waste their money on what they believe to be a better 
machine.  The sad fact is Apple is far worse than M$, but they just 
don't have much market share so they will never be considered a monopoly.

Here's another fact about the new iMacs:   You have to take them into an 
authorized repair center just to add more memory as apparently the cases 
are glued together in some way, and therefore it takes "an expert" to 
even open the case and then glue it back together.

If Apple ever gets it's act together they will offer their OS-X for 
standard PC clones.

Warren Togami wrote:

>May I also add that this kind of decisions by Apple just changed my mind
>about buying a Mac in the near future.  With OS X I thought it would be
>worth it to buy one, but I will not monetarily support a company that
>panders to this kind of content industry abuse.
>
>Apple.  You lost a customer.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
>To: "LUAU" <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
>Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 7:40 PM
>Subject: [luau] NEWS: New Copyprotected CD's destroy iMacs
>
>
>>Can you say outrage?
>>
>>Further bad news in Slashdot comments:
>>
>>http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=32567&cid=3514269
>> "Apple designs its CD drives to support media that conforms to such
>>standards. Apple computers are not designed to support copyright protected
>>media that do not conform to such standards. Therefore, any attempt to use
>>non standard discs with Apple CD drives will be considered a
>>
>misapplication
>
>>of the product. Under the terms of Apple's One-Year Limited Warranty,
>>AppleCare Protection Plan, or other AppleCare agreement any misapplication
>>of the product is excluded from Apple's repair coverage. "
>>
>>So not only is the computer broken because you didn't see the fine print
>>
>and
>
>>tried to play a cd in it, but you have to pay for the repairs.
>>
>
>
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