Re: POP!! buggerit.....

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Good grief and 'exchange' .. thieving ...

No chedaper in the US either - around $200 over there. And Apple don't
seem to do these as a DIY part either.

What, so you have to send / take it in to have them fix it?

Yup. Although I think you can buy from Apple Centres, but you can't get
them ordered off the web site. Plenty of repairers that will sell them
though.

I just bought a very heavy, very quiet, very well regulated /
protected 600W PSU for the C2D PC I just built and it was £55 new.

If I could do something similar in the G5 I would, but they do like to
make things look pretty inside, so there just isn't the space.

The Mac tower I looked in recently had a 'PC Sized' PSU (from memory)?

That's possible. I would have tried, but there's an alarming number of
connecting pins, and they ain't standard connectors.

If Emily's went, I'd be looking at about £15.

I pay a tenner for 'basic' 400W 120mm fan ones.

And that's the thing isn't it, if I find a component that turns out to
be a lemon I buy something else and /or from somewhere else to replace
it.

Well, there is a hope that the commonly failing components are being
replaced with better ones by the refurbishers.

For free? I had a result that way with Dyson recently. Some friends
gave me their old Dyson DC5 and I noticed the plastic where the handle
joins the long wand / tube bit was broken. I contacted them for the
small plastic moulding and the said it only comes as a complete wand
assembly .. at £33. I suggested that it might be a design flaw and
what would stop a replacement going the same way? He then offered the
replacement would probably be of an improved design and (they said)
in this instance we will send you a replacement foc. (and they did and
it is a 'better' design)

I wish. Mind you, I don't even mind paying if something is improved and
less likely to fail again.

My experience of Dyson isn't as good as yours. FWIW, I had a DC5 and
that had the plastic moulding completely missing when I got it from new.
They sent a new hose, but it took days toi get through on the phone, and
a couple of weeks to get it. The product was crap too, the cable never
reeled in properly, and the motor melted at two years.

But I guess if you got the thing cheap in the first place etc ...

Cheap?

I mean *if* you buy something cheap / second hand then it's not 'so
bad' as such?

Guess so, although nothing about my G5 has been cheap. I got it new, and
have extensively upgraded it too. The PSU is actually a small cost as a
percentage of the whole.

<snip>
(it wasn't his birthday but he does me lots
of favours so ..) ;-)

(Nutters need not reply)

Well, it's mine tomorrow, looks like all the dosh is going towards the
PSU :-(

Doh! ;-(

Oh well, if it works for you and makes it all better then that's sort
of a present eh Andy ;-)

I'm finding it hard to look on it that way! :-)

--
Andy Hewitt
<http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/>
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