Replies to post #79004 on Apple Inc (AAPL)

[KCMW]

Plus, Apple is so schizoid about DIY...

I thought it was a (relative) plus that my G5 iMac was sorta designed with user-serviceability in mind. Loosen a few captivated screws and the back lifts off. You can get to memory, the HDD, power supply, clean the fans, and few other things relatively easy. The following iMacs went away from this (still allowed memory access).

Then I got used to the idea that laptops just are not going to be very serviceable, nature of the beast. And they turn around and almost make it too easy to take the HDD out of the MacBook.

Life with Apple is a bit like that box of chocolates....

-KCMW

[yofal]

Lango: re: hunh?

If the monitor on my iMac croaks, exactly what good does it do me that I've got a port I could hang an external off? I've still got to send the whole iMac back to be repaired. ACD croaks, I plug in a spare monitor while the ACD is off being repaired.

You exaggerate the inconvenience of the repair and make the assumption that the average user has an extra monitor standing by. Most folks will be dead in the water in either scenario.

For you, hanging external optical drives, etc is fine, apparently (although I have a hard time reconciling that with the cable and clutter argument). I suck it up and accept it, but it's second-rate in my world. Can I cart my iMac to an Apple Store and have them charge me a 500% premium for a new drive? Sure. But I'd rather order exactly what I want, have it delivered to my door overnight, replace the thing myself and skip the drive, the hassle, and the ripoff charges.

Lord no. I only suggested an external HD, if the default drive was not satisfactorily large.

No need to pay that premium on a HD. Buy your own and accept the manufacturers warranty for that aspect of your system. Your warranty will still stand for the rest of the machine.

At any rate, I wish you seemed as supportive and tolerant of others' balance of the various aspects of ownership as we are of your own interest in not being straightjacketed to a noisy case, cables, crawling under desks (speaking of thin gruel, seriously, how much more frequently do you crawl under desks of your towers than your AIOs?), etc.

I guess your attempt to downplay the iMac strengths sounded just as absurd to me. Just how often are you replacing drives and screen? Seriously? Have you seen the floor under my desk? ;-)

p.s. It's great you've got the old G4 in service as a file server. But surely you'd admit if it was tied to the ACD, you'd have lost some benefit from the ACD, that you still have as things stand.

I guess bringing it into the discussion merely demonstrated for me how unlikely your major supporting argument for a mid-range case was. The machine is still completely stock, after almost 10 years of constant use. You can build an AIO now that will retain it usefulness beyond that of most of its components.

I guess those kharma-cally inclined though would say I'm due for a serious round of hardware failures...

cheers