Re: [PLUG] OSX "middleware"?

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On 24 Feb, 2005, at 21:28, Rebecca Ore wrote:
> On Thursday, February 24, 2005, at 02:18  PM, William H. Magill wrote:
> > On 24 Feb, 2005, at 09:53, Rebecca Ore wrote:
> > > Apple seems to have changed their mind about allowing user 
> > > installation of memory.  It's a one chip machine so you buy the 
> > > biggest chip you can afford and are down one chip you can't use if 
> > > you upgrade the memory after you buy it.
> >
> > No mind change -- it is a price-point and physical size issue.
>
> Your explanation wasn't about the issue of voiding warranties if the 
> end users opened the machine and switched memory themselves, which I 
> understood to be Apple's original position on users doing this.  The 
> revised word seems to be that end users who don't break their machines 
> switching out memory wouldn't have voided their warranties.

I didn't realize there was a warranty issue with the Mini (I haven't 
been following discussions about it), but I assume that the issue would 
be the same as with the Flat Panel iMac (the hair dryer). It actually 
has two memory slots. One is accessible to the user simply by removing 
the bottom plate. The second slot, however, required that the heat-sink 
be removed in order to access the slot. Since most people don't have a 
a clue about the need for replacing the "gunk" on a heat sink, let 
alone have any, and since the design of the unit and processor used 
(G4) involved a lot of heat to be dissipated, Apple opted for the 
"Authorized Service Center" approach simply to protect folks from 
themselves.

I don't know if the Mini has the same kind of design issue that the 
iMac has or not, but it would not surprise me to find that it does.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
magill@mcgillsociety.org
magill@acm.org
magill@mac.com
whmagill@gmail.com

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