I've just had an example of truly excellent
service and
thought I'd pass it on. For those that don't know, the Apple
Powerbook 5300 series is under a 7 year extended repair period due to
the type of plastic used in it's casing. Basically, up until
sometime next year, if there's a problem on a PB5300 series machine
that is attributable to the case, Apple will repair it. Last week,
the right hinge mounting block on my PB 5300c broke so I called Apple
on Monday. On Tuesday, Airborne Express delivered a box for me to
ship the machine back to Apple, on Wed. Airborne picked it back up.
It was delievered to Apple on Thursday and it was repaired and given
back to Airborne on Friday. Airborne dropped it off at my home just
about an hour ago. The machine looks like new and now has been put
through the full REA to repair the known problems covered, at no cost
to me. I'm not even the original owner of the machine.
We had this service done on the boss' 5300ce back in '96... it's been
a trouper ever since. it's plugged into the Prime acting as a serial
console (even though the Prime is still down...).
-dq