During the past years, by buying an Apple product, one was certain to have a machine that would function without fault over the years to come... and this is regarded as a fact. Even though this is often the case today, the golden era is over. Over the past few years we have seen many problems over the full range of Apple products: the Airport Express , iMac G5, Powermac g5 that leak, MacBooks that crack...

A reader having had within a short time two identical breakdowns on two computers bought 18 and 21 month ago tried to negotiate with Apple to repair them under guarantee. Faced with their absolute refusal for any compensation, he decided to take them to court. Since this business is still under jurisdiction and it has not yet been judged, we can say no more at this time. However there is a sentence in the report written by the Apple lawyers that has us so surprised that we decided to communicate it to you.

The litigious computers functioned perfectly, to the satisfaction of even Mr. xxx, during more than 21 month for xxxx and 18 months for xxx, which REPRESENTS, FOR COMPUTER MATERIAL , A PERIOD LONGER THAN USUAL

According to its lawyers Apple considers it normal that a life of a Mac is less than two years. Thus they can stick with their one year legal guarantee without any flexibility.

Vir: Lionel, www.hardmac.com

Tako pač žal je s skorajda vso moderno elektroniko in ker Apple izdeluje opremo v istih tovarnah na Kitajskem kot ostali so rezultati podobni. Seveda gre včasih tudi za inženirsko napako, a občasnim se vendarle ne da izogniti. Alternativa je cenovna nekonkurenčnost. Žal.

Ipod nano, naj bi tudi imel "rok trajanja" 2 leti(saj baterija).Še zdaj ga vsak dan uporabljam. Isto že 7 let stari iMac, še vedno šiba. In prepričan sem da bo z mojim macbookom isto.

Mislim da sta obe tvoji napravi se iz obdobja, ko je bila kvaliteta boljsa. Tako da za MB pa vprasanje kaksna je kvaliteta. Bom pa jaz zagotovo med prvimi ki bo obcutil (ne)unicljivost MBja, saj imam prvo serijo