Pay $50 for the OS and Desktop Cert for a total of $100 a year and
take the easy tests and you have full access through GSX to do
whatever you want basically.
The certs force techs to keep uptodate with the changes in the OS
and Desktops. Some Apple laptops and Desktops are a pain in the
arse to take apart sometimes. Having access to the self service
ebooks are a good tool to have so you don't snap a small part or
whatever.
But you have to imagine the idiots out there doing these things, you
have schools who have teachers running servers and stuff and working
on machines which scares me.....thats why they took away the DIY
parts for the iMac. End users just don't have what it takes to work
on things.
Some of us are techies and think we don't need the certs which I
agree, but I think this is more to protect and force these other
idiots.
Just my two cents....everyone has a different way to look at things!
But still beats having to pay $799 a year to work and fix your own
machines! Just pay for the certs and take the easy tests and you
have full access to what you want.
Thanks,
Dan
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:25:31 -0500
From: Romeyn Prescott <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Applecare or Self-Repair
To: <email@hidden>
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I disagree. I don't think it's "fair" at all! The basic computer as
we all know it hasn't changed in 20 years. Motherboard, drives,
processor, RAM. Sure, they keep putting them in different cases, but
Apple seems worried that they've somehow done something so "complex"
that it's beyond the scope of us run-of-the-mill idiots. "Idiots"
who, I should say, have been doing this sort of thing for many years!
They haven't.
Publish tech notes. Let us know that if we diagnose Module A as
being bad on a model 123 Mac then we ALSO have to replace sub-module
C. Or whatever. But the TAKE-APART isn't anything special. And it
never has been.
Gateway lets us order warranty parts via E-mail. No phone calls, no
middleman. It's GLORIOUS and I've waited a LONG time for Apple to
wise up and allow this. I think I'll be waiting a long time more.
$0.02,
...ROMeyn
