From: BC@cup.portal.com (Robert David Comer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Commodore warranty
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 22:11:05 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>In article <1993Jan19.154518.2123@msus1.msus.edu>, martin@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.
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>D
>U (Psigon Matrix....do you DOUBT us??) writes:
>>In article <1jfhgeINN38t@network.ucsd.edu>, simon@ivem.ucsd.edu (Simon Lee) w
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>i
>tes:
>>>In article <19676@mindlink.bc.ca> Jeff_Holinski@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeff Holinsk
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>)
> writes:
>>>>
>>>>Isn't it odd how Commodore can build a machine like the 4000, put a standar
d
>>>>set of slots into it and then say that if you open the case or install any
>>>>cards yourself your warranty is void? (of course you have to pay a service
>>>>charge)
>>>
>>>Not really, since Apple has the same policy on their Macs.  I think they
>>>expect the dealers to install the hardware, so if something bad happened,
>>>you won't be at fault.
>>
>>Yea, but apple doesn't put foil stickers on the machines...they trust the
>>user to not open if if they are told so.  I had to void my warrenty already
>>to put my scsi board in as my nearest dealer is over 1hr away and charges
>>to install.  It's VERY inconvienent to say the least.  CBM may think it's
>>trivial, but this alone has caused me to have a new view of commodore as
>>a company.  Cool hardware is one thing, customer trust is another.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>*   Simon Lee              *   Microscopy and Imaging Resource          *
>>>*   simon@ivem.ucsd.edu    *   Intermediate Voltage Electron Microscopy *
>>>*   sulee@ucsd.edu         *   UC San Diego, Dept. of Neuroscience      *
>>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>Jim
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>>Screeeemmmmmin fast 4000/040..YEEEEEEHA!!          X-ASOCC (CBM Blew that one
)
>>          Jim Martin   MATRIX -- If it's made, we sell it. Almost.
>>  -----(612) 656-9693--                         MARTIN@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.ED
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>>      We're almost done with the Cray module for the EmPlanT.  :) heh
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>
>I am dissappointed at CBM, not only for the abandoment of the 3000 series and
>scsi,  but the radical change in the graphics interface that obsoleted the
>3000, 2000, 1000 and 500 series.

Haven't you ever heard of moving forward?  You gotta change, or you die! (law o
f
evolution, basically)

My 500, that sits next to my brand new A1200 still works, it didn't roll over a
nd die
when I got the new Amiga, and it still gets used, (though a great deal less)

The A1200 is an amazing innovation, and well worth any problems it migh cause..
.

>
>Judging from the heat problems, they did not engineer the 4000 very well
>either.
Any 68040 system has heat problems, even Quadra's.  That chip runs HOT.

>
>Bluntly, I do not see any reason to chase the CBM will-o-the-wisp.  I would
>rather waste my finances on a (Strike me dead I never thought I would say it)
>Mac

Waste is the keyword here, I don't waste my finances, and I don't buy MAC's, on
ly
Amiga's (I have 3)

>
>George Bluhm
>

Bob Comer