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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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If Apple ever gets it's act together they will offer their OS-X for standard
PC clones.<br>
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Warren Togami wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">May I also add that this kind of decisions by Apple just changed my mind<br>about buying a Mac in the near future. With OS X I thought it would be<br>worth it to buy one, but I will not monetarily support a company that<br>panders to this kind of content industry abuse.<br><br>Apple. You lost a customer.<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Warren Togami" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:warren@togami.com"><warren@togami.com></a><br>To: "LUAU" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:luau@videl.ics.hawaii.edu"><luau@videl.ics.hawaii.edu></a><br>Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 7:40 PM<br>Subject: [luau] NEWS: New Copyprotected CD's destroy iMacs<br><br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">Can you say outrage?<br><br>Further bad news in Slashdot comments:<br><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=32567&cid=3514269">http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=32567&cid=3514269</a><br> "Apple designs its CD drives to support media that conforms to such<br>standards. Apple computers are not designed to support copyright protected<br>media that do not conform to such standards. Therefore, any attempt to use<br>non standard discs with Apple CD drives will be considered a<br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!---->misapplication<br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">of the product. Under the terms of Apple's One-Year Limited Warranty,<br>AppleCare Protection Plan, or other AppleCare agreement any misapplication<br>of the product is excluded from Apple's repair coverage. "<br><br>So not only is the computer broken because you didn't see the fine print<br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!---->and<br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">tried to play a cd in it, but you have to pay for the repairs.<br></pre>
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