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Quote: Originally Posted by tundraboy Quicken for the Mac is the most frustrating, disappointing, crap-ridden piece of Mac software from a major software company I've ever seen. It's the only thing that prevents me from declaring my switch to M…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Battery connector springs becoming compressed, as well as HDD's becoming damaged. Fair enough.
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross There is such a thing called test to destruction. All manufacturers do this with certain products, particularly mobile ones. I'm sure they had plenty of experience doing this during the design process for all …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross They may find that the Flash based models are subjected to higher levels of abuse. It's possible that from their experience with returned, damaged models, that they have found the batteries to move around too …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Reliability. Every full size iPod (Classic) has had a connector for the battery. The hard drive alone makes this unit more failure prone than the nanos, is Apple choosing to make them even more failure pron…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross You're not supposed to be doing this yourself. There is no reason why a manufacturer should make their product easy for the customer to repair when they say, for liabilities sake: "No customer serviceable part…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Why worry about repairs? That's not our problem. Few small devices are "repaired" these days. It costs more to repair anything other than replacing major parts than it would to replace the entire device with a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Moukkis ...And every time AEG or something like that brings out a new microwave-oven, kitchen utilities fanatics on the net tear it apart and post pics... Check iNukeIt for latest teardowns..
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Quote: Originally Posted by drjjones Now let's see ya put it back together and make it work ,,.. lol Already done. (Last pic on iFixit's page.) Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Meanwhile, the battery is attached to the logic bo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mistergsf I respectfully disagree with this. I don't think it's a "fair" comparison. There are many brands to choose from for plasma/LCD TVs and HD-DVD/Blu-Ray drives. Right now, there is only ONE iPhone; and for th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Burglars smashed the front window of the Apple Inc.'s Saddle Creek retail store in Memphis, Tenn. Tuesday morning, making off with $25,000 worth of goods in less than a minute flat. Police said the brea…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hohlecow This could be early morning blurry vision, but you can kind of make out "THE BEATLES" from the album cover titles. Cover 1: THE Cover 2: [space] Cover 3: BEA Cover 4: T (guys arms spread like a t) Cover…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H Oh man, how bad are you going to feel if I get crushed by a falling rhinoceros tomorrow? Let us know, won't you? That will keep me up nights!
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The remote buddy for iPhone stuff looks pretty good.
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Quote: Originally Posted by thehellgate911 That would suck really badly if the iPod keeps the 3.5" screen. I want a bigger screen damn it!!! Even if Apple's next iPod had a screen 2mm from each edge, just as you've wished, the screen would be …
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM "mostly hit"? Can you name three things that they got right? That is only one of two examples that I am aware of that they got anything right, ever. I don't even remember what the other example was. They…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider "iSuppli?s teardown, conducted this weekend, determined that the 8Gbyte version of the iPhone has a total hardware Bill-of-Materials (BoM) and manufacturing cost of $265.83, Unsurprisingly, today's figu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by IHateScreenNames Is that Daniel Eran of RDM? If not, he's a dead ringer. Is he the "AppleInsider contirbutor?"
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Quote: Originally Posted by cwoloszynski ... I was thinking I might pass on Leopard. ... But, then I remembered that I need to get iChat theater/screen sharing Screen sharing is the Leopard feature I've been looking forward to most, but in…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jawzzy Is it just me, or does it seem like that analyst checked out the MacRumors Buyer's Guide? MacRumors has reset the "Days since last update" for minor things like adding the 17" edu iMac. If you're trackin…